ASUS ROG Rapture GT-AXE11000 - One Year Later !

I've been using the ASUS GT-AXE11000 for 1 year !
What score do you think I should give it ?
Let's find out!
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►ASUS GT-AXE11000
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[@JosephAbarado]

The last part of the video was surprisingly my favorite part! Made my day! 😂 Thanks Beh4 for sharing your technical knowledge in a very creative and entertaining video experience! 💯

[@Behfor]

You're very welcome! Glad you liked it 😁👍

[@Revolutionized]

WOW I just love love love that last minutes animations between the data pocket and the router. You couldn't make it any better than that.

[@Behfor]

Thank you so much 😀

[@stephenralph7480]

Had me laughing out loud as well and there was a certain truth to that conversation. 😊

[@stephenralph7480]

Also, I've just got myself a GT-AX6000 that runs Merlin and I love the way it's able to run a VPN that can serve individual devices whilst all other devices use the normal Internet feed. I use a virtual static IP address for a VoIP device because my ISP is 4G (via a Zyxel LTE5388-M8O4) so I don't have a public IP address. My GT-AX6000 has been running flawlessly for a week now and it will serve me well for years to come. 😊

[@VirusVanquisher]

Excellent video and you got me thinking right away of how to fix this annoying issue with mine. Thank you very much!

[@ConalFlood]

The animations sold me on this channel. Subbed

[@Ben-ld5lt]

I love the animation in the end! well made 😀

[@Behfor]

Thanks, glad you liked it 😊

[@HeadphoneHangover]

HAHA! Subscribed, that segment with the graphics and argument between the packet and the router was absolutely hilarious! Kudos, great job. 🤣😂🤣

[@Behfor]

Thanks so much! Glad you liked it 😁👍

[@MarkKessler43]

I love your sense of humor - I did not see that animation coming and am now laughing like an idiot - Thanks for brightening my day 🤣

[@Behfor]

Thanks, glad you liked it 😊👍

[@TheAhanin]

Hey Behfor, Thanks for the info. I loved the Persian style conversation with router at the end hahaha

[@CarputingYT]

great video i like how it's very on topic no fluff

[@FastRedPonyCar]

I also used the AX86U with my AXE11000 and it's a killer combination. I had some weird connectivity problems when using the AXE as the main router so I used the AX86U as the main router and the AXE as the AI node. Turns out it was just an issue with some legacy devices having some issues with how the AXE setup it's wifi (not quick connect but something else I never figured out) Those devices are gone now and although I've tested the AXE as the main router with no issues, I put it in the closet and went to a unifi dream machine pro and a couple of the unifi Wifi6 AP's. Turns out that's not perfect either and while it has a lot of flexibility, I'm now getting lots of random latency and wifi cameras are showing poor signal despite being within unobstructed eye view of the AP's. I have the new AXE16000 on the way and am planning on setting it up as the main router and the AXE11000 as the node with perhaps the AX86U in another part of the house that could use a stronger signal but honestly, these ASUS AXE routers are by FAR the most powerful routers I've ever tested or used. Nothing even comes close.

[@Zeromobius19]

Totally agree with you on everything because I've experienced the same issues. Recently i upgraded to the AX11000 Pro and this one has been much better then my AXE11000. Also, I am now using my AXE11000 as a mesh node and somehow I'm getting over 1000 Mbps down on its 6Ghz connection where I wasn't hitting it before when it was my main router lol.

[@Behfor]

Cool! Thanks for sharing :)

[@ROGG16Gaming]

the AXE-11000 wasn't playing nice with my Intel AX210 card on 80 Mhz when on 5 Ghz. It's a very nice router which has UPnP, OpenVPN , SAMBA shares but ASUS screwed it BIG time.

[@Zeromobius19]

@@ROGG16Gaming I'm not having any issues with my laptop with an ax 210 card but I also updated the firmware to the one that works with the band. I forget off the top of my head the firmware number.

[@dormitor187]

ok the last minuts got me :-D nice work buddy 😀

[@Behfor]

Thanks, glad you liked it 🙂

[@ROGG16Gaming]

WARNING!!!!! If you're in the Middle east, EU, UK beware, the ASUS Routers do not have channels (149 - 165), they have been doing this for quite a long time. I just bought this GT- AXE11000. The ASUS AXE-11000 (250mW) has very weak signal strength compared to the Netgear RAX80 which can run at 1W (1000 mW). You definitely need 149-165 as these channels are rarely used and provide stronger signal strength especially when there are concrete walls in your house.

[@addeo8997]

How to check before purchase if the router has limited channels or not? Any EAN number maybe can be helpful?

[@KompressMogul]

I agree, the router has gotten better like fine wine. Purchased 10/2021 till now.

[@Behfor]

That's great! Cheers!

[@mohammadhosseinabadegan6920]

Thank you ❤

[@Behfor]

You're very welcome!

[@Redmanticore]

3:19 finally wlan can have the same quality as wired 1ghz cable from early 2000, which is steady 1ms. and since 6ghz range is so short, same range, too!

[@jasontcp5757]

I have the GT-AX11000 absolutely rock solid, I don't have clients that can take advantage of Wi-Fi 6e only Wi-Fi 6. I've had ASUS merlin on it from day one, patently waiting for WireGuard integration, thanks for the video Behfor.

[@Behfor]

Thanks for sharing! Glad yours is rock solid :-)

[@audguy]

I have a GT-AX11000 and it has been a total POS, slow and unstable. both the original one I bought and the RMA one.

[@jdmgsr05]

@@audguy damn what’s it doing? What router you looking at now?

[@jdmgsr05]

Nice 👍🏼 have you had the ax86u or ax6000? Debating on those vs the 11000

[@audguy]

@@jdmgsr05 I ended up getting what I should have from the start, an Ubiquiti UDM SE, now I get the full speed of my internet connection and uptime of 4 weeks without any issues.

[@thorodin3631]

can you connect a 5 gz wifi card to the 6 ghz range? I mean, for instance, my laptop doesn't have wifi 6 so wondering if it can connect to the wifi 6 of this router?

[@tolust]

Can you please help me ? I have 2 of the axe11000 which ports do I use to connect in back for a mesh setup .

[@joesal361]

I can't get anything better than 40 -60 m/bs to my external on a wired 2.5 lan. The hdd is a SanDisk G Drive Pro 18tb. My ax82u can hit 140megs easy. Any thought. I wanted an upgrade but this happens instead.

[@a.h.d.h.2803]

Very nice informative and entertaining video Behfor! Love it! Probably your dealing with a firmware version which is still not 100%. I did have the same problems with the Asus RT AX 92U. Three years ago I bought a RT AX 92U duo pack to be able to create a mesh network. The network was down on a regular basis and then I had to reestablish the mesh network as well, which was a pain in the *ss: Once the two devices were connected and I put one device back in its place upstairs and switched it back on the mesh network was gone again. Anyways only after two years the firmware version was good enough to have a reliable (mesh) network. I don't have any problems at all anymore. The configuration: Cisco 2940 router in bridge mode. One Asus RT AX 92U router, one Asus RT 92U mesh node, one Asus RT AC 66 mesh node.

[@Behfor]

Glad you liked the video and thanks so much for sharing your experience :-) I agree with you it looks like the firmware is not 100% quite yet! Thanks again :-)

[@Fear.of.the.Dark.]

This router is more than 2 years old. By now firmware issues are fixed. It seems like it may be a hardware issue that they might be doing soft patch with software

[@K4ninchen]

I bought it this week, currently no problems and very good latency and bitrate for wireless VR with 6ghz. Do you still have issues with the latest firmware another year later?

[@TotalWarriorLegends]

Can you make a new video 2 years later? How the perfomance is?

[@flujan6824]

Very funny video. You mentioned a range for 2.4, 5 and 6 but what is that range. How many square feet is your house? Is it one story or two, etc.?

[@kringkingen]

Interesting! Great video, I am about to buy one of these two routers you mentioned or maybe even the GT-AXE11000 Pro. I wonder, will you maybe make a review with the Merlin firmware for these routers? I'm new with Merlin firmware, but It has really caught my interest lately and something I want to try out because of the extra features I need.

[@Behfor]

Glad you liked the video, I have already done a couple of projects using Merlin firmware. Thanks

[@macmovieman1]

I think the dream router would be an Asus quad band 6e, 2-5ghz, 2.4. I would use one of the 5ghz bands for the backhaul and have a dedicated 2.4, 5 and 6e band for my iot devices. For now I love my 3-ROG AX110000 routers in a mesh network. The only way around this is to go wired with no backhaul and have the same options but that was not an option for me.

[@thierrybo6304]

😆 Your video make my day.

[@Behfor]

I'm very glad you liked it :-)

[@johntrussell7228]

Behfor - I have two of these in AiMesh. Once or twice a week, mine drop all WiFi radios and WAN connections all drop. I need to reboot them to fix this. I'm running the latest firmware. Any clues what is going on? On the ROG Forums it seems that many people have the same issues.

[@Behfor]

Thanks for sharing! This could be similar to my issue! Like I said in the video, in my case I can hope it is software related because in my case it is not as bad as it used to be! Let's see what happens in the early future firmware updates!

[@greezy619]

I just moved into a 5200 sq ft home and already own a GT-AX11000. I was looking for a asus router to add to make an Aimesh network everything with wired backhaul. Why do you choose ur RT-AX86u as the Router and AXE11000 as the AP? If quality over price as my main concern with 8 people living in the house, what device or devices would you recommend I add (which being the router vs ap), to get the best with all the devices, security Cameras, and iot

[@Behfor]

Well the AX86U & AXE11000 have more or less the same specs (except WiFi of course)! The reason I chose the AX86U as the router was because first of all it is rock solid and never goes down (in my experience), also in my network design, the 6 GHz network needs to be on the other side of the house and far from the router, so if I had used the AXE11000 as the router it's 6 GHz WiFI could not have reached there! Now regarding what router you should add to your network, that'll depend on how many bands do you need on the mesh node? If you are using wired backhaul then you are not sacrificing your WiFi for that and you may be fine with even with a dual-band mesh node!? Which in that case the AX86U could be a good choice. If you need to have a Tri-Band node then maybe another AX11000 could be a better choice. At least this is how I would look at it. Thanks.

[@makav911]

Can you do a review for the new GT-AX16000 ? Thank you.

[@Behfor]

If I ever get my hands on it, yes! Thanks.

[@ChampagneOppa]

You literally have to be within 10 feet to be able to use 6E. It's absolutely pointless. Go with AX86U

[@getawayswithangela]

OMG 7:29- you had me dying.

[@user-cj9qt9wr2w]

So I set this up with some Zen Wifi repeaters to cover 5 acres. But the Tri-Band setup is making some devices super sad. Trying to manage devices across G/N and 2.4, 5, 6Ghz over single SSID has been rough. I tried to setup a IoT Wifi just on 2.4Ghz but my Apple Watch just refuses to connect to Wifi. If I turn off the fancy stuff, then Blink quits working. I end up just playing games with everything and finding some happy point for everything. Honestly my 2013 Airport Extremes had better range and reliability. Its not that the Asus isn't working, its just a lot of money for no value.

[@LotBoy87]

Nice

[@Behfor]

Thanks :-)

[@travellerseko]

Hi mate, I wanna buy a router and I’m in between Asus RT-AX92U, RT-AX86U and ROG STRIX GS-AX5400, Tp-link Archer GX90. Which one of the best? I have budget to buy any of them.

[@TygerByte]

If your internet plan is higher than 1Gb, look at the Asus RT AX6000. It’s the only router in the price range with a 2.5Gbe WAN as well as 2.5Gbe LAN. I’m paying for 1.2Gbps down and was always capped at 900ish down. After the router upgrade I’m at 1.4Gbps down. You’ll of course need to update your network to support 2.5Gb… upgraded network switch and network cards. If your internet plan is under 1Gb, then it doesn’t matter as much.

[@Starfield-Guy]

Good video but I cannot decide between this and the GT AXE7800

[@samgallon1273]

Piano in background is very good. Can you tell from where can i get it?

[@Behfor]

Glad you liked it! The track is called "The gentlemen" by DivKid. Thanks.

[@samgallon1273]

@@Behfor Thank you so much ❤️

[@Behfor]

@@samgallon1273 You're very welcome!

[@Hoooooggg]

So I have two ASUS routers also and at my home it’s about 2300sq and mostly gaming and streaming happens. I have ASUS - RT-AX82U AX5400 Dual-Band WiFi 6 and ASUS - GT-AXE11000 Tri-band WiFi 6E. My main is the AXE11000 and my node is the AX5400 should I have switched these two and made the 5400 my main and the 11000 the node? I thought the tri band would be the smarter option over the dual band router if you or anyone has a better suggestion on this setup please let me know as I wanna make sure to have max coverage and much better ping especially when gaming.

[@Behfor]

You should definitely use the AXE11000 as the main because it has a more powerful processor compared to AX82U and also double the RAM!

[@Hoooooggg]

@@Behfor thank you just wanted to make sure also I set up a scheduled reboot for both devices to happen every morning @3am and it stopped the internet drops I was having constantly and the disconnect from the node all the time so after doing this it’s been working flawlessly.

[@Behfor]

That's great! Thanks for sharing :-)

[@yourikhan4425]

Very interesting but when you say the 6ghz doesn't cover the whole house, we cannot guess the range. Also walls.

[@pr0jectSkyneT]

Did you experience better performance and reliability when you moved to the Merlin firmware?

[@S4_QUATTROPOWER]

I didn't I actually had issues with it. Speed drops to be specific

[@kringkingen]

@@S4_QUATTROPOWER Damn that sucks to hear, let us hope that will improve that. Do you know anything about Merlin on the GT-AX11000 Pro version?

[@S4_QUATTROPOWER]

@@kringkingen I have Merlin software on it, I did change some settings and it's working better so far

[@macster1457]

Why not set the router to reboot automatically once a week? - that's what i do with my Asus routers.. no issues.

[@macster1457]

@Defective Degenerate every router needs to be rebooted once in a while. I do this in the middle of the night so the impact is less.

[@Behfor]

There are different network issues that could be fixed (usually only temporarily) by rebooting the router, one of them is WiFi interference, because rebooting the router can force the router to choose a better channel where there is no/less interference and in this case maybe automatically rebooting the router every week or so could be a good idea because it can make sure you always use the best channels, however in my case the issue is not WiFi interference and it can happen anytime and it just has to be rebooted when it happens and rebooting it automatically cannot necessarily fix the problem. Thanks.

[@Nilaneth]

Obrigado!

[@Behfor]

I really appreciate your support! Thanks 🙂🙏

[@ShadowStormOG]

Should I stay with my AX11000? And not upgrade to AXE11000? Would this benefit me with 1200MPBS internet?

[@DR19X]

wait for wifi 7 routers

[@winnb4968]

I had many routers and most of them latest ones were all Asus routers. The problem you had was mostly due to CPU overheat of the router due to heat. Problem with these high end router is somehow at some point it's doing many tasks/connection wise. The cooling inside of these routers isn't enough I removed the plastic cap and build a special case of plexiglass with many fans. About 3 fans x 120mm fans (Push) in a box at the top and same at the bottom (Pull) the hot air out. As I noticed where in my house the electricity place is where I put my router and that small room was hot in general. Since I put these self build fans in the place along with the router I have no longer issues with my router. That was the day I figured out these routers do have a heating issue and not proper cooling solution, as the fins are too small for hot air to escape.

[@Behfor]

Thanks for sharing! That's a good point 👍

[@arubiana]

Thanks for the review. I’ve noticed the same issue with my router. I’m upgrading to something a bit more reliable.

[@Behfor]

Glad to help

[@DiKambingcorn]

Can you review ROG GT AX6000

[@ViBENo1]

do you still notice any high cpu loads on original and/or merlin firmware? btw how much is the average ram usage?

[@DR19X]

high cpu load could mean it is hacked and pinging somewhere

[@ViBENo1]

@@DR19X lol of course. what else can be...

[@DR19X]

@@ViBENo1 🤣 so do you recommend this router?

[@ViBENo1]

@@DR19X did i ever recommend it?

[@DR19X]

@@ViBENo1 I'm in the market for a router. What do you recommend that is better than this one in the video? Stock isp router is giving me high latency in virtualdesktop 5 feet away from the router.

[@uaeelectronics]

The Signal strength on the AXE 11000 is very weak compared to Netgear RAXE500

[@Unsmooth_Edwarda]

damn what was up with your ping using 5ghz thats crazy

[@Behfor]

I know! It's not usually that bad though 🙂

[@clumsygungan5345]

How many devices can it take?

[@Behfor]

It'll depend on many things (environment, noise, interference, how network intensive the devices are, how many features are enabled on the router and ...) and there is never a certain answer to that question for any wireless routers or access points.

[@imjustafaiz]

2 girls 1 router, wow, hidden memory unlocked!!!

[@techocrazy]

ASUS deliberately crippled the shit out of the WiFi. The transmission power is too low that it's only good if you're in the same room as the router on 5Ghz. 6Ghz is a joke, and won't even connect if you just step into another room.

[@S4_QUATTROPOWER]

2 Girls 1 Router BRUHHH 🤣🤣💀💀

[@Behfor]

😁😁

[@grimcarnage4309]

The repetition of that music gave me cancer.

[@nrikhy2793]

The more the latest technology the more the nuisance.

[@internetabyss]

He uses the extremely expensive router as his AP, 😂

[@Behfor]

What's wrong with using an amazing device as an AP? Besides they both have the same processor and the same RAM!

[@techocrazy]

WARNING: Don't fall for the Hype, this router has far worse Signal strength than the older Nighthawk RAX80 (AX6000) and WiFi 5 Netgear R7800 (AC2600) router.

[@usercs_2682]

Agreed, I changed from TP link to ASUS and totally regret it after just a month