Just got an Asus RT-AC68U, want to know how to get max performance out of it.

tman2damax11 · Oct 5, 2014

So I just got an asus rt-ac68u, but its called the asus tm-ac1900, because I got it through t mobile's promotion where they basically let you rent this router for free for only a down payment of $25, and you get to keep it for life. But it basically has the exact same hardware as the rt-ac68u, but a few minor firmware tweaks, but nothing out of the ordinary. I come from linksys routers were there new smart ui is simple and easy, but lacks enthusiast settings, I got this router because I wanted some of those settings, but I'm no enthusiast, so i'm really overwhelmed by the options I'm given. There are 2 menus that I really don't know anything about, even the tab for them is labeled "professional", here are what they look like: http://imgur.com/a/eKI87 . One is for advanced 2.4ghz band settings and the other for 5ghz band, so what are most of these settings for, and which are unecssary and which are good to have on? Also those with asus router, are there any other settings I should be aware of? Any help or suggestions will be greatly appreciated!

thor220 · Oct 5, 2014

The only extra features you're going to get out of a high performance router is QoS features and newer wireless standards.

If you want to get max performance out of it, the biggest thing is making sure that all of your devices conform to the latest wireless standard supported by the router. This is an AC router so your going to need ac adapters to be able to use the wireless ac features.

The image you linked is of basic wireless settings, nothing advanced there. It's wise to keep those to the defaults unless you live in an area that has many wireless networks. There is nothing you can tweak here that would give you an overall speed increase, although you could optimize for gaming.

bill001g · Oct 5, 2014

It depends where you live and how many neighbors you have competing with you for bandwidth especially in the 5g range. To get the maximum speed out of 802.11ac you must have 4 consecutive channels. If you have a neighbor using even one of these four and they have a strong signal in your house it will cause errors. If you have other neighbors attempting to use 802.11ac they too will attempt to use 4 channels. There are only 2 blocks of 4 channels total that you can use on most routers. This means if you have a lot of neighbors attempting to use 802.11ac you will get lots of interfering signals and nobody will get the maximum speed.

All you can really to do is try as see how it works. Bad news is many times disabling 802.11ac and going back to a single 20mhz channel running 802.11n can out perform a session using 80mhz of bandwidth. This is impossible to even predict since it depends what people living around you are doing and even then everyone is messing around trying to get maximum performance so it is in a constant state of change.

Still it may not matter at all. If all you are doing is accessing content from the internet you bandwidth from your ISP generally limits you well before you hit the limit even on older wireless.

P0nt00n · Jul 21, 2015

bill001g :

It depends where you live and how many neighbors you have competing with you for bandwidth especially in the 5g range. To get the maximum speed out of 802.11ac you must have 4 consecutive channels. If you have a neighbor using even one of these four and they have a strong signal in your house it will cause errors. If you have other neighbors attempting to use 802.11ac they too will attempt to use 4 channels. There are only 2 blocks of 4 channels total that you can use on most routers. This means if you have a lot of neighbors attempting to use 802.11ac you will get lots of interfering signals and nobody will get the maximum speed.

All you can really to do is try as see how it works. Bad news is many times disabling 802.11ac and going back to a single 20mhz channel running 802.11n can out perform a session using 80mhz of bandwidth. This is impossible to even predict since it depends what people living around you are doing and even then everyone is messing around trying to get maximum performance so it is in a constant state of change.

Still it may not matter at all. If all you are doing is accessing content from the internet you bandwidth from your ISP generally limits you well before you hit the limit even on older wireless.

Does this cause interference with the wired connection aswell?

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