ASUS RT-AX58U Teardown: A better-equipped RT-AX56U?

[@cardboardsnail]

I've had this for a bit over a year, and been pretty happy with it. I got it to replace a D-Link DIR-859 that was giving me frequent intermittent ethernet dropouts that interfered with my job.

[@alexmaer3281]

I had this router and need to reset it once a day because wifi signal will not show for no reason

[@jtz2268]

Thank you! I think I made the best decision buying two of these routers. The heatsinks and the tri cpu looks like they will last for quite a long time. Its even a pretty good router and I'm glad its still supported. Any idea when this router got released and am I fine with using this router having bought two of them from last year?

[@SamBondor]

From what I could find, the original RT-AX58U was released at the beginning of 2019, while a v2 was made available in 2022.

[@jtz2268]

@@SamBondor Funny because that's exactly what happened for my warranty with one of them. I believe I got one from around 2019 and the other one that came around 2022. The seller whom I bought from is trying to get my replacement for the router which Asus has discontinued which I believe is the V1.

[@jevgenijobzigailov2376]

This should be v1. My v2 version has much smaller flat aluminum sheet painted black like in TUF 3000 v2 and has no backplate.

[@SamBondor]

Yes, I bought this router immediately after it was released, so it is indeed the first hardware version.