Asus RT-N56U

[GrimUpNorth]

Thinking of getting one of these. Before I do, has anyone any comments?

Cheers

Grim

[idi banashapan]

yeah, I have one. pretty good - a lot better than I expected tbh. actually, let me change that - it's very good. no issues at all. doesn't require restarting every 2 days like the superhub did when in full router mode due to lockups or poor performance (now only in modem mode). the fact the superhub was so poor was the reason I got the Asus which has only been restarted once in the couple of months since I bought it and that was for config changes. you can put Tomato on it if you like, but the standard firmware does exactly what it should. seems to get updated fairly regularly with extra bits and bobs and any fixes that might be needed, so it's not a flog-and-forget jobbie - really good support. works well as a file and print server too.

overall, I'm very pleased with it and have nothing at all to mention in the way of gripes.

[Gavin78]

Glad I read this review I bought mine a month or so ago just been using the SH at the moment...whats the wireless range like compared to the SH?

[GrimUpNorth]

Ordered - here tomorrow.

Cheers

Grim

[Gavin78]

Just set this up today...impressed the laptop upstairs furthest away was getting around 15meg with SH with this router its touching around 50mb....the ethernet cable 30m connected in the same room to the xbox360 I tried that on the laptop and was only able to get 10mb I assumed too much or crap cable.

I tried it with this router on laptop and it boosted right upto 105mb. the laptop in the living room around 10 feet from the router. connected to SH used to be any speed from 20-70mb....with this Asus router 105mb constant.

Lots of options in the router is there anything I need to do other than the usual?

I've got it secured with my password on both channels 2.4ghz and 5ghz as wife's phone is the HTC one X so that is running on the 5ghz channel and I have set the router to 20/40ghz mode on channel 11