ASUS DSL-AC56U AC1200 Wireless Dual-Band VDSL/ADSL 2 + Gigabit Modem Router, 2 USB ports for 3G/4G Support, Media/FTP server for Phone Line Connections (BT Infinity, YouView, TalkTalk, EE and Plusnet Fibre)

Replaced a BT Hub3.Very aware that not many settings were variable in the BT router but it was easy to use. This on the other hand makes almost every setting imaginable a variable that can prevent your network running - if you don't have the time to learn or are not tec-savvy it could be a bit of a frustration to get even a simple LAN network talking how it used to. Wireless was pretty straight-forward though.Once I had found just the right settings to tweek and got everything talking, I can confirm it has a lot more oomph that the old hub, reaches further and with the dual band I don't get local conflicts with other routers in the street. That in itself is the biggest bonus.Gigabit ports have allowed me to super-speed the LAN (the BT hub had one gigabit and three 100Tbase, which bottle-necked data transfer rates).All in all, everyone seems to get a good signal around the place and the only bottleneck now is the BT line!! As this router has a WAN socket, fibre option upgrade will not present a problem.

On paper this looks great. Ditch the openreach modem and separate router plus this has 5g wifi. Sadly this falls way short. Firstly the modem appears not to play well with my vdsl (fibre to cabinet). Auto set up works fine and online but speed is about half what it should be 40mb rather than 78mb which i had most of the time with bt openreach modem. I am only 200m from cabinet and have a very low noise line so it should work fine... the web interface is very slow, when you change a setting it wants to reboot all the time which takes 3-4 minutes. The 5g wifi is very quick but kept dropping which required a reboot to start it again. All in all my advice would be to stick with seperate modem and router until a better more stable combo is out. This went back after a week and i just upgraded to a netgear nighthawk r7000, works like a dream via bt openreach modem. Shame as this is a great idea, looks good and is a compact size. But clearly buggy and/or under powered.

This Router is very good, however it lost a star due to an annoying set up experience.As a Sky Fibre customer, the Sky router was no longer cutting it so I bought this to replace it with (*Replacing your Sky router is against the Sky Fibre terms and conditions, do at your own risk*).After getting the @skydsl username and password (which you need to replace this) via Wireshark, I would suggest downloading the latest firmware for this product before unplugging your sky box. One more note, if you have a BT Openreach modem on your wall, you can bypass this as it's obsolete with this router and just another bottleneck.Once the ASUS is plugged in and has set itself up, put a password on the Wi-Fi connections as they broadcast instantly unprotected.Skip the "auto set up" wizard, as it is bugged with the firmware it comes with.Go to the Admin section and find the firmware update section, put the latest firmware file onto the router and let itself update.Once it's done updating, you will need to Factory Reset it, which is also in the Admin section I believe.After it has factory reset, let it run the set up wizard and you should be up and running.Feel free to ask me any questions.

I bought this ASUS DSL-AC56U AC1200 router to replace the router that was provided by my internet service provider (ISP) and I have to say that this is a great VDSL2 modem/router combo with plenty of settings to play with. I've been using it for a month now and I'm getting much higher download speeds and upload speeds. It also supports G.INP or G.998.4 so if you're on a green cabinet with G.INP enabled then this will increase your speeds. WiFi connectivity is also great and allows you to have both 2.4GHz and 5GHz SSIDs. I'd highly recommend this to basic users and those who want optimal control over their internet connection and WiFi. Ignore the negativity around MediaTek chipsets - I've had a better experience with this compared to a Broadcom chipset.

Do not trust the advertised speeds the ports only do 100mbps not gigabit ports and the wifi is weak

Primarily purchased this modem router so that it could automatically update the ever changing dynamic IP address at home without having to have a dedicated computer with IP-updating client software (multiple users, including children, on different devices at different times becomes a real pain). This modem router has a number of DDNS options listed, but most importantly for us, dnsomatic, which in turn will update openDNS. Having openDNS (why not? it's free!) configured for security on certain websites means that our internet connection is now protected for the entire family. We could have stayed with our original ISP, which had a good family filter, but they were expensive. The new ISP alas didn't have family filtering, but with the savings will cover the cost of this modem router within 6 months. Currently using the 2.4 GHz connection, which is stable and fast (or at least fast enough for us). Will it last? Time will tell.