Reviews of ASUS AC2900 WiFi Dual-band Gigabit Wireless Router with 1.8GHz Dual-core Processor and AiProtection Network Security Powered by Trend Micro, AiMesh Whole Home WiFi System Compatible (RT-AC86U)

Great router
As a Network Security Engineer, this router has lived up to its expectations so far. My house is 2500 sq ft, and from one end of the house to the other I get 65-75% signal strength and was able to put my downstairs repeater in retirement. I've wired my house with ethernet cables, but when I tested the wifi strength on them
they had a much stronger signal than my N-speed router had, and youtube videos loaded quicky. I decided

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not enable the AiProtection doohickey because I have a separate device for that, so I can't speak on that feature. My only gripe was that the router GUI login didn't work for me on port 8443, so I changed the AiCloud web access port to 1234 (any port between 1024-65535 is fine), and set the router GUI to port 443 and then it worked fine.

Top 5 best practices: Disable any USB App's "Media Services and Servers" you don't use, enable the firewall, set a good admin password, disable UPNP, set the login to use HTTPS (see above).

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