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Asus Ac86U Dual Band Wireless Gaming Router With Mu Mimo
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15 days Returnable
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- Dual-band (2.4 + 5 GHz) AC2900 wireless router with the latest 802.11ac MU-MIMO technology for data transfer speeds up to 2900 Mbps
- 1.8GHz 64bit Dual-Core processor optimizes network traffic and connectivity speeds from the USB 3.1 Gen1 and 4x Gigabit LAN ports
- Designed for lag-free online gaming and flawless 4K UHD streaming with WTFast Game Accelerator and Adaptive QoS
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Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Product Dimensions : 20 x 10 x 15 cm; 861.83 Grams
- Date First Available : 27 June 2020
- Manufacturer : Asus
- ASIN : B075WFL15D
- Item model number : RT-AC86U
- Country of origin : China
- Best Sellers Rank: #45,334 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
- #262 in Routers
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RT-AC86U

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RT-AC86U
AC2900 Dual Band Gigabit WiFi Gaming Router with MU-MIMO, AiMesh for mesh wifi system, AiProtection network security by Trend Micro, WTFast game accelerator and Adaptive QoS.
- Ultimate gaming experience - Built-in WTFast game accelerator and Adaptive QoS deliver lag-free online gaming and smooth 4K UHD streaming
- Ultrafast Wi-Fi - AC2900 W-Fi speeds boosted with NitroQAM and 5GHz quad-stream technology to handle even the busiest home networks with ease
- Ultrawide Coverage – High-performance antennas, ASUS AiRadar and Range Boost eliminate dead spots, and MU-MIMO maximises Multi-device performance
- Ultrapowerful Processor – Enjoy smoother networking and faster data transfers with the PC-grade 1.8GHz 64bit dual-core processor
- Commercial-grade Security – AiProtection, powered by Trend Micro, blocks and neutralises internet security threats for all your connected smart devices
- AiMesh Supported - Connect your RT-AC86U to other compatible ASUS routers to create a powerful and flexible whole-home Wi-Fi network
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Double Gaming BoostEnjoy low-latency online gaming with boosted internet and home network performance! |
Adaptive QoS – Prioritise Your GameBoost your gaming bandwidth with Adaptive QoS (Quality of Service), which allows you to easily prioritise gaming packets and activities. You can even assign full dedicated bandwidth while gaming under gamer solo mode, making RT-AC86U the perfect ally for low latency gaming anywhere in your home. It supports major consoles including PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PS4 Pro, PlayStation Vita, Wii U, 3DS and Xbox One. |
Multiple Capacity Wi-Fi with Revolutionary MU-MIMO TechnologyMU-MIMO gives every compatible device its own dedicated full-speed Wi-Fi connection, so that multiple devices can connect at the same time without slowing down the network. In fact, RT-AC86U is able to connect to multiple MU-MIMO-compatible clients at each device's maximum speed simultaneously, unlike standard single-user MIMO where individual devices have to wait for sequential transmissions. |

Unbeatable Coverage
With ASUS innovative antenna design and the new Range Boost technology, both Wi-Fi range and signal stability improve dramatically. AiRadar further focuses Wi-Fi signal on your devices, making your Wi-Fi faster, clearer and stronger.
Product description
Asus Ac86U Dual Band Wireless Gaming Router With Mu Mimo
Customer Reviews
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As my primary need was for a VPN client this newly launched router seemed to have everything needed to make it a super fast capable router when being used with a AES 256bit CBC encrypted data signal. Well it turns out that this router with its super fast optimised dual core CPU is certainly up to the task.
With its ease of setup, using the Merlin firmware, as a VPN client, it is very simple to apply policy based routing. Having devices running through the WAN or the tunnel of the VPN connection, wit ha kill switch, is very easy. As is port forwarding.
Using a smart connection for the excellent Wi-Fi, to combine both the 2.4ghz and 5ghz into one SSID, and then the router allocates the appropriate band to each device, is also both easy to setup and very effective.
There is much more to this router but the little that I have touched on went to convince me that it is a very impressive buy for our needs.
I never did like using DD-WRT or a pf sense box, my brain is far too feeble to cope or manage with those.
So far I am very very happy with the excellent throughput of this router and its massive list of features.
Merlin described it as being .....
So basically, expect around 200 Mbps of throughput (I doubt the GT-AC5300's extra cores will make any real difference, OpenVPN being single threaded). That's about 4x faster than the RT-AC68U, and probably around 3x faster than the RT-AC88U/RT-AC3100/RT-AC5300.
and someone noted with their fast VPN connection.....
Based on those results I added only the rcv buffers as the snd buffers lowered the upload speeds.
DL: 223 Mbps
UL: 233 Mbps
The single highest values: DL: 228 Mbps UL: 262 Mbps
Excellent router so far.

I saved down my configuration from my old RT-AC68 (inc DDNS account) and set up the 86U, installed new Merlin firmware and then uploaded settings saved from 68U (isp login, IPTV settings, and Wi-fi settings. Static IPs had to be manually input. Rebooted and everything worked perfectly.
WiFi coverage is significantly improved. We have a Squeezebox radio down in our yard some 65ish feet away from the router (2 internal brick walls, a garden followed by another brick wall to get through) and reported 2.4Ghz strength has gone from ~30% to ~40%. Strength throughout the house (medium sized) is excellent on both 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz bands. Lots of wired clients too (two switches connected) and no issues as expected.
Very happy so far. I will update my review should this change.
Update 2nd Sept 2019. Returned as the 2.4Ghz Wifi is failing with many clients failing to connect and awful speeds if they do manage to connect. A quick internet search confirms that this is a common hardware fault so I did not want to chance a replacement. Shame as really liked this router.

After 6 months or so, I'm no in a position to review this router and give some feedback.
+ Great coverage;
+ ASUS firmware (excluding Trend Micro functionality) is very stable;
+ Easy configuration;
+ Smart Connect technology (switches between 5GHz and 2.4GHz automatically, according to rules);
+ Wifi scheduler.
The only gripe I have with this router is that, when AiProtection or Traffic Analysis or QoS is turned on, the router becomes unstable. Interestingly enough, the router still works as normal, but, if you try to turn off the lights via the router control panel (the physical button), it would not work. Also, the Wifi scheduler stops working. I even tried a scheduled reboot every 1 or two days, to no avail: The issue can manifest itself in a matter of hours in within a few days. Very annoying. Given that AiProtection and Wifi scheduler was one of the key features I wanted this router for, this was somewhat disappointing.
After 3 months, I actually returned the router back to Amazon as faulty and asked for a refund, naively thinking I had a faulty unit as instructed initially by Asus technically support. I then bought the same router again, hoping for the best, but the the exact same issues manifested again. I actually logged a case with Asus, managed to go to the tech. team after a few weeks of bouncing backs and forwards, but I never managed to follow it up all the way. I always keep the router updated to the latest firmware. I have also tried the Asus wrt-Merlin firmware. No good new there either (as expected really, as the Merlin firmware is built on top of the Asus firmware anyway).
So, unfortunately, I simply run the router without AiProtection features on and the router works very well, with a very good range.
Would I have bought this router if I had known all of this in advance? Definitely not.

And, first impressions are a win. The different between this router and my previous is night and day.
Configuration is easy, and I had no issues in setting up my wireless network, including a guest network and configuring DHCP so many devices get a fixed address.
Updating was an absolute joy. Install of having to manually check for updates, download firmware and then apply it (with the added bonus that upgrading the firmware resets all settings to default), this router checked for updates and automatically installed them. And it preserved my configuration. Outstanding!
My previous router would frequently get itself into a tizzle and would "lose" either the 5Ghz or 2Ghz bands - sometimes indicated by the light going out, sometimes just by not being visible to any devices. Sometimes (especially with my Raspberry Pi's) devices would simply be unable to connect. Sometimes they could connect fine, but couldn't access any other devices on my network - yet as soon as the router was rebooted everything would work without a hitch. It has now been a month with this new router and I haven't had a single dropped connection, a single instance of my devices being unable to talk to each other. I have a laptop which has DR software on it to back up to a network drive, this used to fail to verify over wireless, so I ended up using a USB Ethernet port to have a hardline for the backup. With this new router that too is no longer needed and the disk images verify across the network fine. Conditional forwarding on my Pi-Hole works now, again something that wasn't possible with the Archer. Networking Nirvana!
In pretty much every which way this router is far superior to the ones I've used previously. And yet I've given it a fairly low rating. Why?
There is one glaring problem.. one of the reasons for buying this router was for the vaunted security aspects. Traffic management, bandwidth monitoring, things like that. And I simply can't use them as the router isn't doing this, instead it sends all your traffic to a third party, Trend Micro. For me, this is a big no no. Why does security have to be at the expense of privacy? It isn't a case of "if you haven't got anything to hide, you won't mind". It is a case of this is my data and I like to control it. Every other day I read a new story about how Company XYZ has been breached, or Company ABC is selling data on you that you never even knew it was collecting. While I can't completely avoid this given the despicable practices of pretty much every tech company out there, where I do have a choice I will opt hard for privacy and controlling my data.
I can't even enable Quality of Service options to prioritize the traffic on my network as even that data has to be sent to a third party. It is nobodies business but my own what happens on my network. About the only thing that actually works is parental controls (something else that flat out didn't work on the Archer).
While otherwise this is a superb router and well worth the cost, the fact that for me it is mostly hobbled due to the fact I won't give it permission to send data to a third party means I'll be looking to replace this much sooner than I was anticipating.
In all likelihood if it wasn't for the fact that the bare router has solved every single problem I had with my previous one (and the fact we're in lockdown!) I probably would have returned this router already and sought something else, but now I'm loath to go back to the Archer.
