New-Gen WiFi Standard – WiFi 6(802.11ax) standard supporting MU-MIMO and OFDMA technology for better efficiency and throughput
Connect in your way – You can share the internet from 3G/4G dongle to the router by plug the dongle in a USB port
Ultra-fast WiFi Speed – RT-AX53U supports 1024-QAM for dramatically faster wireless connections. With a total networking speed of about 1800Mbps — 574 Mbps on the 2.4GHz band and 1201 Mbps on the 5GHz band
Increase Capacity and Efficiency – Supporting not only MU-MIMO but also OFDMA technique to efficiently allocate channels, communicate with multiple devices simultaneously
4 Gigabit ports – One Gigabit WAN port and three Gigabit LAN ports, 10X faster than 100–Base T Ethernet
Commercial-Grade Security Anywhere – Protect your home network with AiProtection Classic, powered by Trend Micro. And when away from home, ASUS Instant Guard gives you a one-click secure VPN
Easy Extendable Network – Enjoy seamless roaming with rich, advanced features by adding any AiMesh-compatible router
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Specification: ASUS RT-AX53U (AX1800) Dual Band WiFi 6 Extendable Router, USB, Subscription-Free Network Security, Instant Guard, Parental Control, Built-in VPN,…
8 reviews for ASUS RT-AX53U (AX1800) Dual Band WiFi 6 Extendable Router, USB, Subscription-Free Network Security, Instant Guard, Parental Control, Built-in VPN,…
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Basudeo Prasad –
For Fiber broadband it’s good, but dual WAN with USB tethering, speeds are too low since it’s a USB 2.0 with 120Mbps max speeds (despite official USB 2.0 max speed of 480Mbps) Other wise its great
Good stability ( but slow boot ), Good range just learn to configure antenna [ 3 in XYZ and 1 in hybrid XYZ] Wifi 6 or AX max speed of 1200mbps is also good 2.4Ghz range is great even 5Ghz se also great
Ai mesh is also future proof tech in here
Only cons are No USB 3.0 just 4 Antenna
If these doesn’t concern you then go for it
Its great WiFi 6 AX Router with great stability and great range with optional dual WAN via USB modem and USB tethering
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★★★★★
Ryder –
It’s been over a week… it’s working as it supposed to… Great product worth buying for home office.
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★★★★★
Suranjan Ghati –
Awesome ASUS Wifirouter
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Amazon Customer –
Coming from Netgear R6220, I am quite disappointed with this router in terms of GUI functionalities.
The UI is so suffocating I could barely want to hover into the tabs, Some pages display improper information. Though this is the day 1 review. I felt, Asus should have kept the GUI simple like Netgear. It feels like I am in a BIOS settings page. I understand Asus main theme is like gaming and over visuals. But for home routers, they should have made it simpler. This is my opinion.
On the other hand, the device surely looks premium with its build. From far distance, the long antennas make it look quite cheap.
Wifi signal is strong and I get good speeds from far ranges. Dead zones are now minimized.
Security Features: If you are a tech savy, I recommend not to be fooled by the AI protection and Security features it provides. It just forwards the DNS requests to popular content inspection Servers which takes care of the Safe browsing. At the end the device is still sending the request to the external DNS servers for packet inspections.
If you are tech literate, I would recommend to setup a personnel DNS server using Adgaurd/pi-hole, which are absolutely free.
Overall, I would recommend this product but this might disappoint folks who are coming from Netgear. Apart from that it is a decent router.
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Amazon customer –
The product is good. With WiFi 6 enabled I get an overall great signal strength throughout the house and the same goes for WiFi 5 mode on the router. Although there are some backward compatibility issues for WiFi 5 or earlier devices while connecting to the router with WiFi 6 mode enabled. Also the routers web UI, sometimes, freezes and could be a bummer at this price point.
For tech enthusiasts, if you’re planning to install custom firmware like AsusWRT-Merlin, please do not buy this. This product has a mediatek processor, and they do not support this line of processors, they only work with Broadcom chipsets. There’s only OpenWRT at the time of this review, which I haven’t tested on this router. I’ve tried OpenWRT with my previous routers, and it wasn’t stable enough to give reliable internet connectivity, so assuming the same for this router, I didn’t take the chance.
Amazon for some reason for not accept the return. The support guy (name was Amit) said he’ll initiate the return in 24hrs, but never got an update. I purchased this product for a very specific use case. I’m very disappointed with Amazon this time around.
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Raghu SK –
Great coverage and thermals are also good. Doesnt heat up quickly.
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Vivek –
Very good WiFi 6 router, awesome performance
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Amazon Customer –
It has everything a basic router should have to be future proof. Range is very good, speed is touching maximum of isp plan. Best alternative to chinese brands which can create trust issues. Pendrive slot could be 3.1 although.
Basudeo Prasad –
For Fiber broadband it’s good, but dual WAN with USB tethering, speeds are too low since it’s a USB 2.0 with 120Mbps max speeds (despite official USB 2.0 max speed of 480Mbps)
Other wise its great
Good stability ( but slow boot ),
Good range just learn to configure antenna [ 3 in XYZ and 1 in hybrid XYZ]
Wifi 6 or AX max speed of 1200mbps is also good
2.4Ghz range is great even 5Ghz se also great
Ai mesh is also future proof tech in here
Only cons are
No USB 3.0
just 4 Antenna
If these doesn’t concern you then go for it
Its great WiFi 6 AX Router with great stability and great range with optional dual WAN via USB modem and USB tethering
Ryder –
It’s been over a week… it’s working as it supposed to… Great product worth buying for home office.
Suranjan Ghati –
Awesome ASUS Wifirouter
Amazon Customer –
Coming from Netgear R6220, I am quite disappointed with this router in terms of GUI functionalities.
The UI is so suffocating I could barely want to hover into the tabs, Some pages display improper information. Though this is the day 1 review. I felt, Asus should have kept the GUI simple like Netgear.
It feels like I am in a BIOS settings page.
I understand Asus main theme is like gaming and over visuals. But for home routers, they should have made it simpler. This is my opinion.
On the other hand, the device surely looks premium with its build. From far distance, the long antennas make it look quite cheap.
Wifi signal is strong and I get good speeds from far ranges. Dead zones are now minimized.
Security Features: If you are a tech savy, I recommend not to be fooled by the AI protection and Security features it provides.
It just forwards the DNS requests to popular content inspection Servers which takes care of the Safe browsing. At the end the device is still sending the request to the external DNS servers for packet inspections.
If you are tech literate, I would recommend to setup a personnel DNS server using Adgaurd/pi-hole, which are absolutely free.
Overall, I would recommend this product but this might disappoint folks who are coming from Netgear. Apart from that it is a decent router.
Amazon customer –
The product is good. With WiFi 6 enabled I get an overall great signal strength throughout the house and the same goes for WiFi 5 mode on the router. Although there are some backward compatibility issues for WiFi 5 or earlier devices while connecting to the router with WiFi 6 mode enabled. Also the routers web UI, sometimes, freezes and could be a bummer at this price point.
For tech enthusiasts, if you’re planning to install custom firmware like AsusWRT-Merlin, please do not buy this. This product has a mediatek processor, and they do not support this line of processors, they only work with Broadcom chipsets. There’s only OpenWRT at the time of this review, which I haven’t tested on this router. I’ve tried OpenWRT with my previous routers, and it wasn’t stable enough to give reliable internet connectivity, so assuming the same for this router, I didn’t take the chance.
Amazon for some reason for not accept the return. The support guy (name was Amit) said he’ll initiate the return in 24hrs, but never got an update. I purchased this product for a very specific use case. I’m very disappointed with Amazon this time around.
Raghu SK –
Great coverage and thermals are also good. Doesnt heat up quickly.
Vivek –
Very good WiFi 6 router, awesome performance
Amazon Customer –
It has everything a basic router should have to be future proof. Range is very good, speed is touching maximum of isp plan. Best alternative to chinese brands which can create trust issues. Pendrive slot could be 3.1 although.