Asus RT-AC59U AC1500 Dual Band Gigabit WiFi Router (Black) with MU-MIMO and Parental Controls for Smooth Streaming 4K Videos from YouTube and Netflix

I have received a Duplicate product from Appario Retail Private Ltd. The item doesn't even Power ON. As soon i opened the amazon packaging, the Router Box is not sealed. When opened all the items doesn't even look like original. I went ahead & Connected to Plug-point & it didn't not power ON. I have then went to ASUS store at Koramangla(Bangalore) & bought the same Model. & to my surprise there are many differences between what i received from Appario Retail Private Ltd & the one i bought in store. I have captured many images by keeping both the routers side-by-side. Please check. Please dont buy from here. In above images, LEFT side router is from Appario Retail Private Ltd & right side is of the Store.1. No Warrenty card & RJ-45 cable provided in the box on LEFT(Amazon/Appario Retail Private), where as in store box they are available.2. Power Adaptor is Local Made & plain, where as store one has different connectors & proper power Ratings mentioned.3. Antenna Position are different between both the items.4. Some of the UI indication on the Router are not correct(eg. LEFT side has no LED indication for LAN ports but where as on RIGHT side there are proper LED indication. Also indications are very fake printing on LEFT & on Right they are very neat & genuine.5. On Back of the router there is not Sticker of the Brand & details of the router on LEFT but where as on the right they are present correctly.By above details, anyone could know that it is a fake & duplicate product(which also doesn't work for me, but for some people where it worked those would have started using). So please stop buying from [Appario Retail Private Ltd].I have opted for return & didn't go for replacement(as i have already bought the same one from store).

Tell you what, this product lives up to its brand name "Asus"Dlink, Cisco, Netgear, TP-Link etc., none have such a product line, and I'm sure they will stay that way forever, take all your money and sell you a worthless product.I have used all the above brand products and have never been more satisfied, infact forget Asus above brands can't even compete with Tenda for consumer line of products.About the productQuality: it is well built, the product is made with good quality plastic and it feels sturdy as if it's made out of metal.Hardware: it houses quad core Broadcom BCM4708A0 800 Mhz processor, 128 MB Flash, 256 MB Ram, True Gigabit WAN/LAN ports (5) and USB 3.0, which is decent.OS: it has Asus-RT OS, which is to an extent better than DD-WRT. DD-WRT is good, but since it is an open source project, non developers are always dependent on the community for any upgrade or bug fixes, also it doesn't offer full functionality with all routers, I have seen DD-WRT break more things than make things better and lastly since it's open-source it is somewhat vulnerable too.Asus-RT is a well developed OS and works almost flawlessly.Functionality: intitial setup is simple and intuitive, even basic user can do things with this, it offers amazing LAN speed and WiFi connectivity, the router can connect to any kind of internet either with LAN autoconfig/PPPOE or with USB dongle, yes USB too, infact this is the first router I bought that can connect to internet via USB Dongle, it supports wireless repeating and AP, it supports VPN namely PPTP, L2TP and OPENVPN, tight firewall security, and the bonus feature is Load Balancing which can either help you create a failover config or combine internet speed using two different internet connections, I have 2 100 Mbps connections in my office and I use the DualWAN feature, it combines both the connection speed and gives me a single point 200 Mbps internet connection.Final verdict: this is the best budget all round router "period", it does the job for 2 routers and it's worth every penny, trust me when I say I've never been more satisfied.Forget DLink, Netgear, Cisco forever, because they will continue to cheat you with their poor products. Buy Asus-RT and leave all your networking concerns behind.That's all folks!

There is nothing more than one expects a 1500/- router. Except a USB port for network storage. But such high price is only because of covid days as more and more people started working from home, these company increased prices of routers. Else this should not be more than 2k router.5GHz and 2.4GHz both work as required but dont see any benefit of dual band when all i use is 2.4GHz as it provides more range and speed is good at all places of home. If you play game, better to connect ethernet port than use 5GHz.The setting up is breeze with ethernet connected but if you want to do it in wireless mode then it is a big pain. Other routers like netgear that I was using previously were able to make changes to the network wirelessly but this one get stuck.Also I have more settings/configuration available in netgear 1.5k model than what we get in this 5k mode.Overall very average...but I only bought because it is non-chinese company [Though the product is showing made in China].

It's good product if you need to use it as a router.. but this is a brand new product from ASUS with very limited amount of RAM and ROM! Also only USB 2.0It is a decent AC router but NO DDWRT OR other third party firmware supportNo REPEATER FUNCTIONALITY!! SERIOUSLY ..So for the Hardware the maximum price should be 1500 to 3000.So my conclusion is at current stage with no third-party firmware support and only came with usb 2.0 the asking price (almost 6K) is way too high. More importantly REPEATER MODE IS DISABLE BY ASUS.NO AiMesh support !! yes that is unfortunate.