rt-ac5300 v.s. rt-ax86u
Let me start by saying I have no AX devices, and no 2.5 GHz network card devices.
Saturday, I was in a rush to make a purchase. I found out I had the ability to expense a router purchase, but only if done before the end of the month. I ended up choosing the RT-AC5300 which based on specs seemed like a good choice.
However, as soon as I started configuring it started giving me invalid ip address errors. It simply did not want to accept valid IP address for LAN, DHCP, and DNS entries. I finally ended up flashing the beta version for 386.1. That resolved this particular issue. Since they I had all sorts of stability problems, it crashed once and erased all my settings because I activated one of the new features... (That was particularly painful, because I had to do a NVRAM reset on each node to reconnect them.) Whenever a node is rebooted, the router goes offline for 2 minutes even for wired connections. The wifi regularly drops, etc.
I have think I have configured my way around all these problems now. It was a pain. I was expecting I could just literally copy my settings manually from my AC86U... But it ended up being a completely from scratch new network configuration.
The question is should I return this and get the AX86U instead? I suspect if I find a staples coupon, the price will be almost exactly the same. Now the reason I selected the AC5300 is I thought tri-band would help, and I really needed better 2.4 GHz support. But the 2.4 GHz support seems no better than an AC86U, and the third band ends up being a deadicated backhaul to my one and only one wireless node, which is acting more as just a wireless access point for a wired connection than a wifi router.
So would I be better off to return the AC5300, and get the AX86U instead. I think all the problems I've seen are sufficient to call it defective. Or would I just be exchanging one set of problems for another?
Saturday, I was in a rush to make a purchase. I found out I had the ability to expense a router purchase, but only if done before the end of the month. I ended up choosing the RT-AC5300 which based on specs seemed like a good choice.
However, as soon as I started configuring it started giving me invalid ip address errors. It simply did not want to accept valid IP address for LAN, DHCP, and DNS entries. I finally ended up flashing the beta version for 386.1. That resolved this particular issue. Since they I had all sorts of stability problems, it crashed once and erased all my settings because I activated one of the new features... (That was particularly painful, because I had to do a NVRAM reset on each node to reconnect them.) Whenever a node is rebooted, the router goes offline for 2 minutes even for wired connections. The wifi regularly drops, etc.
I have think I have configured my way around all these problems now. It was a pain. I was expecting I could just literally copy my settings manually from my AC86U... But it ended up being a completely from scratch new network configuration.
The question is should I return this and get the AX86U instead? I suspect if I find a staples coupon, the price will be almost exactly the same. Now the reason I selected the AC5300 is I thought tri-band would help, and I really needed better 2.4 GHz support. But the 2.4 GHz support seems no better than an AC86U, and the third band ends up being a deadicated backhaul to my one and only one wireless node, which is acting more as just a wireless access point for a wired connection than a wifi router.
So would I be better off to return the AC5300, and get the AX86U instead. I think all the problems I've seen are sufficient to call it defective. Or would I just be exchanging one set of problems for another?
