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ASUS ROG Rapture WiFi Gaming Router (GT-AC2900) - Dual Band Gigabit Wireless Internet Router, NVIDIA GeForce NOW, AURA RGB, Gaming & Streaming, AiMesh Compatible, Lifetime Internet Security

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  • Triple-level game Accelerator - optimizes your online gaming packets all the way from your PC to the game server..Power Supply : AC Input : 110V~240V(50~60Hz), DC Output : 19 V with max. 1.75 A current.
  • Geforce now recommended router – enjoy an unrivaled cloud gaming experience with no latency.
  • Aimesh supported - works with Asus AiMesh compatible routers to create a powerful, flexible, seamless whole-home Wi-Fi system.
  • Front-line network security – Lifetime free AiProtection Pro, Powered by Trend Micro, protects all connected devices from internet threats.
  • Asus Aura lighting– multiple effects for a stylish vibe while can even be set to reflect the status of your network

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TRIPLE-LEVEL GAME ACCELERATION

ROG GT-AC2900 features triple-level game acceleration to boost game traffic every step of the way — from your device to the game server. You'll experience lower ping times and reduced latency for a better online gaming experience.

BE IN THE GAMING ZONE

With its high-performance antennas, ROG GT-AC2900 delivers a strong Wi-Fi signal that easily passes through walls to provide smooth and stable online gaming performance anywhere in the home and provides the additional benefit of saving on monthly LTE service fees.

CLOUD-GAMING ROUTER

GeForce NOW is a cloud gaming service that turns your non-gaming system into a powerful gaming rig, and connects you to over 400 top games, like PUBG and Fortnite on popular PC game stores like Steam and Uplay.

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FORTIFIED FRONTLINE NETWORK SECURITY

GT-AC2900 features AiProtection Pro powered by Trend Micro to defend your network from external attacks and threats by neutralizing them before they can reach your devices.

PORT FORWARDING IN 3 STEPS

Open NAT on GT-AC2900 cannot be easier, it only takes 3 steps. No more frustrating and complicated process needed.

MONITOR YOUR NETWORK WITH STYLE

GT-AC2900 glows in your choice of colors and multiple effects for a unique vibe that perfectly complements your gaming rig. The lighting can even be set to reflect the status of your network, so you'll know at a glance when your networks are running busy or when attacks arise.

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  • GT-AC2900 Wireless Router, AC Adapter, Stand/ Wall-Mount, Quick Start Guide, Wireless Antennas, Network cable, Screwdriver
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    Smooth gaming Wi-Fi with the ROG Rapture GT-AC2900, designed for the ultimate gaming experience and the demands for complex & dense wireless gaming environments. ASUS Aura lighting allows multiple effects and customization for stylish, gaming vibe, as well as reflecting the status of your network.

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    4.4 out of 5 stars
    4.4 out of 5
    9,756 global ratings

    Customers say

    Customers like the ease of setup and speed of the networking router. For example, they mention the app is straightforward and the GUI is pretty intuitive to figure out. Some are happy with usability, and coverage. That said, opinions are mixed on connectivity, performance, quality, and value.

    AI-generated from the text of customer reviews

    550 customers mention454 positive96 negative

    Customers like the ease of setup of the networking router. They say the app is straightforward and intuitive to figure out. They also appreciate the live ping info that is very useful for setup. Customers also mention that the router is ready to use after setup.

    "...-Very easy and simple to tune your frequency bands and channels, I notice in a lot of reviews people often say things like "2.4 ghz band can't get..." Read more

    "...I love this router! Super easy set up, easy mesh setup. If you do wifi mesh you will drop a lot of MB’s. I only got 150 after wifi mesh...." Read more

    "...Out of the box:It's insanely simple and to the point. You have a router, a power cable, and a network cable...." Read more

    "...Fortunately, ASUS makes this a pretty simple process if you know how to navigate their UI..." Read more

    475 customers mention352 positive123 negative

    Customers like the speed of the router. They say that it has good speeds and pings, with a faster dual-core CPU. They also mention that the performance and throughput on this router is incredible. Customers also say that the router gives wireline speeds at distances that the C7 would not even connect.

    "...and even all the way to the back of my back yard, full signal and full speed- great to not have to rely on my cellular data plan while out with the..." Read more

    "...Was able to get the full internet speed in almost every room of the house, the lowest it went in a far corner room was ~150 up and down...." Read more

    "...The performance and throughput on this router is incredible, especially when you have QoS configured to prioritize gaming and your gaming devices..." Read more

    "...wifi along with the additional error checking result in a data transmission latency that reduces the value of a very high speed wifi protocol." Read more

    121 customers mention107 positive14 negative

    Customers like the usability of the networking router. They mention that it has a great user interface, is comprehensive, and well laid out. Some say that the management interface on this unit is similar to the older Linksys screens.

    "...-As usual Asus makes it SUPER convenient and easy to add network storage, you literally just follow the instructions on the router and suddenly you..." Read more

    "...The router configuration menu is easy to navigate and the user interface is beautiful.Performance:..." Read more

    "...This has the best of both worlds - a VERY useful, easy to navigate, and incredibly powerful GUI in the phone to deal with most things, and a web..." Read more

    "...The interface is pretty well laid out and most anybody who has done any networking should find most of what they need for basics easy to setup...." Read more

    103 customers mention103 positive0 negative

    Customers are satisfied with the coverage of the router. For example, they mention it provides better coverage of their house than the Time Capsule, it easily covers all three floors of their 3600sqf house, and it has better coverage than WiFi 6 Asus routers. Some say the signal strength is amazing and it completely covers their 4000 square foot house plus their yard.

    "...I get super coverage and stable performance on either channel. I use the 2.4 Ghz channel as it is likely the most stable and goes through more walls...." Read more

    "...I am happy with the range coverage...." Read more

    "...not only did my security cams immediately come to life but the coverage is very good and all the IOT devices that had problems, no longer had any..." Read more

    "...We now have amazing speed, great coverage, and solid connections. I removed our WiFi access point as it was no longer needed at all...." Read more

    1,053 customers mention562 positive491 negative

    Customers are mixed about the connectivity of the router. Some mention that it provides a better wireless signal to several wifi enabled devices that they have around, the signal strength seems strong and steady, and the WiFi range is more than enough for their apartment. However, others say that they consistently lost internet connectivity, the AiMesh router does seem to lose connection to the main occasionally, and it causes their VPN connections to disconnect.

    "...These have been great routers for my needs. Fast, inexpensive, reliable...." Read more

    "...Turns out it was just a bad connection to isp...." Read more

    "...These things provide signal all over my property and even all the way to the back of my back yard, full signal and full speed- great to not have to..." Read more

    "...which was not only a headache to try to set up, but consistently lost internet connectivity...." Read more

    888 customers mention548 positive340 negative

    Customers are mixed about the performance of the router. Some mention it performs flawlessly, works when you get it setup properly, and has good range. However, others say that it doesn't completely work, the device will stop responding somewhat frequently, and the built-in media server may not work for all of your file types.

    "...two at my house and two at my cabin (large property), and all of them work perfectly...." Read more

    "...why I'm not giving this 1 star, it's because well it doesn't completely not work...." Read more

    "...Very pleased with the performance and coverage...." Read more

    "...Never had an issue again. Has been 12 months no problems. Have had the router for 16 months.Great features on the ap...." Read more

    291 customers mention157 positive134 negative

    Customers are mixed about the quality of the networking router. Some mention it's a good solid router, while others say it'll end up being very weak.

    "...This dual router setup has been 100% reliable since the day I set it up. My router settings are fairly simple...." Read more

    "...AiMesh is amazing. But the way they ignored their faulty hardware on this model for years leaves a very sour taste in my mouth...." Read more

    "...I only got 150 after wifi mesh. But it was solid and reliable...." Read more

    "...This router, however, does not include the capability to do so...." Read more

    237 customers mention109 positive128 negative

    Customers are mixed about the value of the networking router. Some mention it's good value at 125 per unit, and one of the most affordable mesh systems. However, others say that it wasn't worth it, is the worst router they've purchased, and is extremely expensive.

    "...these do great in more well spaced out neighborhoods, but not so great in a townhouse or condensed housing setting near an airport...." Read more

    "...To summarize again, this is a great, inexpensive, high performance router in my experience.04/05/2020 UPDATE..." Read more

    "...And finally the price is steep for a 2900 router, but it seems like you get what you pay for." Read more

    "...What I can say is that they are totally worth it if you need to cover your whole house and well...your entire property for that matter...." Read more

    So close to gigabit wifi speeds, but yet so far
    4 Stars
    So close to gigabit wifi speeds, but yet so far
    EDIT:I had another opportunity to set these up in a different environment for a family member. She had just bought a 4000 square foot house, she has 250 Mbps up/down fiber internet and does not live near any weather radar stations. I opted to not update to the latest firmware (5/2020) and instead installed the second latest (3/2020). Everything went smoothly setting up as wired access points. Was able to get the full internet speed in almost every room of the house, the lowest it went in a far corner room was ~150 up and down. What's even craziers is the 2-3 ms ping over wifi. I would strongly reccomend this mesh 2pk system (even though I didn't choose to use the "mesh" system) for larger houses far away from weather stations. Upping my review to 4 stars as these do great in more well spaced out neighborhoods, but not so great in a townhouse or condensed housing setting near an airport.ORIGINAL REVIEW:This is a review for the 2 pack of RT-AX92UHere's the TL;DRI really really really wanted to like this mesh router system. I think that if you happen to be nowhere near a weather radar station, the nodes are very far apart, you're ok with compromises, and you're very very patient, then maybe you could make it work. But sadly there are many features that are only available when certain other settings/modes are enabled, and many things that you lose when you enable other modes (I'll go into more detail below). I was actually able to obtain a gigabit level download speed in a speedtest from my isp, but on that connection to anything outside my isp, I got dial up speeds. Trying to get this to work as expected was an emotional roller coaster that sadly ending in returning it.A little background on me, I'm an IT engineer. Before I got my degree in IT, figuring out how routers worked and what every setting means and does has been a hobby of mine since I was 12, starting when I setup our first 802.11 b router. So I've been self taught and professionally taught in the ways of home and enterprise wireless networking for the last 20 years. Not saying I know it all, but I just want to assure you that this review isn't a case of someone that just didn't know how to configure it.Let's break this down by each feature and how it betrayed meAggregate WANI have gigabit comcast internet. The provisioned download speed (according to dslreports) of comcast's gigabit internet is actually 1.2 GBps. Since I have a modem with the ability to do a aggregate wan link, I was hoping to achieve a connection speed above the cat 5e ethernet threshold of ~940 Mbps using the 160 Mhz wifi bands. I don't actually have a wifi 6/ax adapter in any devices yet, but I do have a intel ac9560 adapter (2x2 160 Mhz) which is capable of a 1.7 Gbps link. I figured being close enough to the router I'd be able to theoretically see above 1 Gbps on a speed test. So I set up the aggregate WAN on the main router and on the modem and got it hooked up. It did make the start up take quite a bit longer, but it got a connection and showed 2Gbps in the web gui, huzzah. I was able to get a 1.7 Gbps link near the router, but sadly never got the speeds I desired (I also didn't have anything at home capable of testing a aggregate LAN link, but on a single ethernet cable from the router I was able to get download speeds of 950, which is better than 940, so that's something).Here's the real kicker, I discovered as I played with various settings that the router would go into a constant reboot loop and you would have maybe a few seconds when it was up to try and disable what was causing it. It turned out what was causing it for me was having the aggregate WAN enabled. It worked fine the first day I set it up, but when I woke up the next morning I found myself without internet and a constantly rebooting router. Until I disabled the aggregate WAN (which wasn't giving me the desired above 1gbps speeds anyway) I was stuck in that frustrating loop.Available Wifi ChannelsThis is a question I posted that I never got an answer to so I just want to put it here.On the 2.4 Ghz Band*the standard 1-11 channels are available.On the 5 Ghz #1 Band* the standard lower 5 Ghz channels of 36-48 are availableNo Dfs channels are available on this band (there is a range of 52-64, which fun fact is the only one that doesn't interfere with the weather radar station at a nearby airport for me, so I couldn't ever get a long term stable 160 Mhz wifi from this router).On The 5 Ghz # 2 Band* The Dfs Channel Range of 100-112* The Dfs Channel Range of 114-128* The non-dfs but non-standard and less crowded range of 132-144* The standard Channel Range of 149-161* The non-dfs but also non-standard (but restricted to 20 MHz band) channel 165 is also availableSo almost every channel band is available, except of course for the one range I need to be able to obtain full ax speeds in my area. The fact that so many channels are available really made me want to keep this router, as I hope to not live by an airport forever and would be able to use the dfs channels elsewhere, but sadly there were other issues.Mesh/AP Setup/Wifi Link speeds (gigabit wifi speeds?!)As another reviewer pointed out, even if you used a wired backhaul for the ai mesh, the 2nd 5Ghz band disappears. You can actually bring it back by unhiding the ssid in the advanced settings. But I discovered that although you can set it to a dfs channel range, it won't broadcast in 160 Mhz or it will change the channel on you after you hit save. It also does change the channel automatically if you're near a radar station like I am, but it would allow it for a short time before that happened. So, if you enable the Mesh system in any way, at least on the most recent firmware, you cannot get the full ax speeds. On 80 Mhz channels with an ax 2x2 device, I believe you'd still be able to get up to a 1.2 Gbps link speed, but you wouldn't be able to get 2.4 Gbps without the 160 Mhz dfs channels. (the 4.8 Gbps link would require a 4x4 160 Mhz wifi 6/ax adapter, which doesn't exist outside of ax routers at the moment, though you could technically use one of these nodes as a bridged adapter with an ethernet cable, but that's quite the expensive adapter).Also, a few notes on what the Mesh actually means. So in a typical enterprise wifi system, you have many access points (AP's) on various channels to create a roaming network. You're device automatically disconnects and reconnects typically without you noticing, with some exceptions of apps/services that don't support roaming connections. You can also set this kind of system up with routers in your home by switching them to AP mode and adjusting the wifi channels. What the mesh system does different is that it broadcasts everything on the same wifi channel so that roaming isn't required and or attempts to occur in a manner that doesn't interrupt connected apps/services. This mesh network can also be created with a wireless backhaul (Asus routers have actually supported wireless bridging for longer than mesh systems have been around), or with a wired backhaul. Wired is better if it's a possibility for you. If you don't have ethernet throughout your house you can create a wired network using your home coaxial ports by getting moca adapters (ethernet over coax adapters, which is what I am using, moca 2.5 specifically) or by getting powerline adapters.The issue I ran into with this setup (other than losing the 160 Mhz band capability) is that my house isn't actually that big. I am in a townhouse that's maybe ~1700 sqft, so if both the nodes are on the same channel, they interfere with each other cause they're too close. I wanted to do a multi ap or mesh system to be able to have full signal in every spot of a small house, because hey why not? Sadly when I tried to use the mesh system the signal was never low enough for my devices to switch routers without manually resetting my wifi. I messed with the roaming assistant rssi settings and found that it's possible to make a device bounce back and forth constantly or never even connect if you set that to above -65. I was hoping that particular feature would allow me to force clients to roam as I travel up and down the stairs, but they were just too close together and I ended up getting slower speeds and more difficulty. If I had a bigger house and these were further apart, I don't think that would have been an issue.Also another note, enabling the mesh with a wireless backhaul doesn't make it impossible to use the 2nd 5 Ghz band. It just makes it hidden by default. There is a asus support article that states you can go into the advanced wireless settings and unhide the 2nd 5 Ghz band to allow its use by devices. This is probably related to it locking out the ability to use the 160 Mhz channels when mesh is enabled as I'm sure that would still apply in wireless backhaul mode since it's probably trying to reserve that link speed for connecting nodes.So because of this, I decided to go with an AP setup with 3 separate wifi channels (see smart connect section below for more on that).So I set up one router upstairs and connected the second using my moca 2.5 ethernet over coax adapter downstairs. I setup the wifi names the same on each band with channels that wouldn't overlap(i.e. 2.4 upstairs on channel 8 and downstairs on channel 1, only enabling 5-1 on the downstairs level because the 80 Mhz on 36-48 will overlap regardless of control channel, and then having one of the 5-2 bands on the 100-112 range and the other on the 112-128 range. This is the setup I used when I achieved the fastest speeds in speed tests, I tried virtually every possible combination).Another little note on wifi link speeds and your internet bandwidth; there are those that say you shouldn't expect your full internet speed on wifi, even the people that install your internet tell you this. I'm here to tell you that this is false (but also an understandable thing as you're not always going to be at a full wifi signal, and you might have interference, and it's not technically the ISP's job to get you the best possible wifi speed because the router is often, though not always, your property not theirs, they just need to get you the promised level of speed into the modem). It is 100% possible to get your full speed (other than multi-gig speeds) with ax wifi, just not 100% of the time. You shouldn't expect to be able to get 4.8 gpbs on this router, even if you had that link speed and somehow had that from your isp. You should expect to get 30-60% of your wifi link speed. In the best conditions with a full strength ac signal I can get around 500-550 Mbps in a speed test against my isp's speed test server, which is about 60% of the 866.67 Mbps link speed. On average, with more traffic and such, I'll see 250-400 with a 866.67 Mbps link speed, which is 30-40% of the link speed. So in theory it is possible to achieve around 1.02 Gbps on my fastest 1.7 Gbps link and between 720 Mbps-1.44 Gbps on a 2.4 gbps link (hence why I wanted the aggregate wan link to work, because a single cat5e uplink will limit my internet speeds to ~940 Mbps). So if you only have a internet speed in the range of 5-500 Mbps down or up, then you can get the full connection speed (and perhaps even less ping) with a more powerful router if you have everything configured correctly and have devices that support such.So with them setup I started doing some speed tests on the 5 Ghz bands (I only connect iot devices to the 2.4 network, and they don't need much speed to work, so I didn't bother doing testing there).On the 5-1 band, I got the expected 866.7 mbps link speed and my speed tests were in the 300-500 mbps range. This is what I got from my previous ac router, so all was good here. I was able to use the internet smoothly and all was well, but this was the same as what I was upgrading from.On the 5-2 Band, I got the expected 1.7 Gbps link speed(fun fact, while testing this with aggregate wan enabled, every time I connected a 160 Mhz device the routers rebooted themselves, once aggregate wan was disabled this stopped happenning). So I did a speed test near a router and got really excited! I got the speed you see in the attached screenshot, a spped of over 940 Mbps down over wifi. I was like, eureka! I did it! Gigabit wifi baby! So I went out to the internet to experience this speed....This is where all hope was crushed. Nothing was loading smoothly. So I went to go download something, I find that things like steam game downloads and nvidia graphics drivers typically are capable of pretty fast downloads, so I went and downloaded a driver from nvidia. Typically I might see speeds of 30 MB/s or faster on a wired gigabit connection, which is what I thought I would see. Instead, I got a blast from the past as I watched the download crawl along at 1-5 Kb/s and even slow down to a few 100 b/s. I thought, oh maybe it's just the internet, so I try resetting the modem, no good. I try the same test on the 5-1 Ghz band, I get faster speed 10+ MB/s download speeds. So it's only happening on the 5-2 band, so I think well maybe it's the radar interference, maybe I just have to give up on dfs channels. So I switch it to a standard channel in the 149-161 range. Same problem, the 5-2 Ghz band will not go through the internet. So I systematically try every setting available (which is not a small number by the by) and nothing works. Even did resets and tried using just 1 router instead of 2, same result. Maybe I just got a bad device, but after all that trouble and knowing that I would never be able to keep a dfs channel stabling broadcasted in my current house, I decided to return it and am now using something that supports the 52-64 dfs channel range from a different brand.Smart ConnectAnother goofy thing about this system is the smart connect configuration availability.There are actually 3 smart connect modes, but there availability is contingent on whether or not you use the mesh system.* All 3 bands (available only with mesh disabled)* 5Ghz 1 + 5Ghz 2 Bands (mesh disabled)* 2.4 + 5 Ghz 1 (mesh enabled)It would be nice to be able to have the separate 5 Ghz-2 band to have a dedicated ax device network without enabling mesh. Especially since enabling the mesh takes away the 160 Mhz channels as mentioned above. While asus does give some good control over smart connect, you can create all sorts of custom rules for when a device connects to which band, I like being able to know which one I'm connecting to if my device supports the fastest speed. So to me it makes sense to combine the 2 lower bands and use that for iot devices (thermostats, nest/echo hubs, smart lights, tvs, etc) and then have user devices use their own dedicated band capable of the fastest speeds. But since I could only do that in the mesh, I ended up trying to keep 3 separate networks as mentioned above.Other NotesNow all this being said, there are more reasons why I really really wanted this thing to work for me.There is a feature for basically everything imaginable. You can create a vpn, but not just the openVPN configuration that comes with most routers. You can make a ipSec vpn or pptp vpn. It provides a dynamic dns service for free because you own the router, same with the extra security features that you can add on top of the firewall. The qos features are extensive (not that I use qos on a gigabit connection) but I like looking at the choices, there's even a (somewhat creepy) feature to enable logging all web surfing history (creepy if used with roommates, smart if used with your children). Basically Asus by far has the best gui and feature sets on their routers. I like being able to control every aspect of my network and asus gives me consumer friendly versions of a lot of the tools I am used to using in network engineering in the enterprise. From firewall traffic logs, to vlans, to vpns, this little router has some punch. However, there is of course a caveat to this too. The router only has 512 MB of ram, if you start enabling features, you'll see the ram load get really high, which is bound to affect your network performance. So it has a boat load of features, but not enough power to use them all at once. Not that I wanted to use them all at once, but if someone did, you'd run into trouble.I also contacted support about my issues back on 6/18, I didn't receive a reply till 6/28 after I had already returned it. The reply I got was a basic scripted reply of things I had already tried, which is expected for a first reply but the timing was too long. Their response time is likely affected by the current global pandemic, but I still would have liked to have gotten something before a week had passed and I had gotten to the point where I had to give up on it.If you're wondering why I'm not giving this 1 star, it's because well it doesn't completely not work. It has lots of potential and its feature set is too good to really say it's a 1 star product. Perhaps after a few more firmware updates it might get to a less problematic level of stability with the wifi 6 features it so abundantly markets itself as having. But until then, it's just a great wifi 5/ac mesh router.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Reliable and good gaming router!
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    Have this paired with modem netgear cm-1200, ASUS extender rp-ac1900 (Ethernet back on for the ai mesh system). And Comcast gigabit internet. And all Ethernet cables are cat7.

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