I tested it with the latest WD My Passport SSD, and via a Gigabit wired connection, it registered 107MB/s for writing, and 112MB/s for reading, or about as fast as Gigabit can be in real life.

Network Protection is a friendly version of a home firewall application, similar to the Firewalla Blue + case. It won’t give you a lot of in-depth information, but it does keep your network safe, to a certain extent, of course. A quality of service engine that allows you to prioritize Internet traffic to support different applications and services — video conferencing, gaming, and so on.What does all this mean? The older router is a good deal if you have only 802.11n clients, especially if you plan to connect to them at 5GHz. ASUS RT-AX68U is one of our favorite wireless routers with Wi-Fi 6 for several reasons: we like the way it looks, and we appreciate how it performs when using older standards like Wi-Fi 4 and Wi-Fi 5. Plenty of households and small businesses don’t have many modern devices and computers that work well with Wi-Fi 6. Most Wi-Fi 6 routers focus on providing the best performance when using the new standard, while ASUS RT-AX68U also delivers excellent performance when using the older standards. To top things off, the new Instant Guard mobile app allows you to connect to your home through VPN and protect your mobile devices while on the go. If you want a well-rounded Wi-Fi 6 router, ASUS RT-AX68U is an excellent choice that we recommend to everyone. Unboxing the ASUS RT-AX68U AX2700 dual-band Wi-Fi 6 router Asus has one of the most stylish router management interfaces there is, hands down. The design is clean and easy to work with, and it has an appealingly futuristic look that almost reminds me of thecontrols for a video game. Without the support for the 160MHz channel width and a Multi-Gig port, the RT-AX68 doesn’t have everything it takes to deliver top Wi-Fi performance, according to the way I test routers. And that was the case in my testing.

You’ll note that the RT-AX58U is a 2×2 Wi-Fi 6 broadcaster, while the RT-AX68U is a 3×3 one. Yet, the former is faster thanks to the support for the 160MHz channel width. RT-AX68U: A standard Asus router The RT-AX68U also did well in network-attached storage (NAS) performance for a router without a Multi-Gig port. The RT-AX68U comes with a stand set of network ports — one WAN and four LANs, all Gigabit. There are also USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 ports. Robust control and optimization with ASUSWRT With the ASUSWRT dashboard UI, setup, monitor, and control network applications The RT-AC68U uses a Broadcom wireless controller and features that company's TurboQAM technology. As a result, the router supports up to 600Mbps at 2.4GHz and up to 1,300Mbps on the 5GHz band.

Those people who work-from-home & learn-from-home will greatly benefit from this new feature with optimized streaming experiences. The RT-AX68U is rated AX2700, as opposed to AX3000 of the RT-AX58U. The numbers don’t mean much in real life, but they show the biggest difference between them. On the inside, though, its hardware is a bit subdued, relatable to the similarly-priced RT-AX58U. But the two are quite different. Hardware specifications: RT-AX68U vs. RT-AX58U Wi-Fi standards: Wi-Fi 7 | Wi-Fi 6E| UNII-4 (5.9GHz) | Wi-Fi 6 | What is Wi-Fi? | Wi-Fi antennas (dBi) | Wi-Fi broadcasting/signal power (dBm) The RT-AC68U also features dual USB ports for file, printers and 3G/4G modems sharing and a USB 3.0 port for up to ten times faster data transfers than USB 2.0.