Tuesday, July 7th 2020

ASUS Intros RT-AX89X AX6000 Gaming Router with Dual 10GbE Ports

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ASUS today introduced the RT-AX89X, a massive, arachnid-looking, high-end gaming router with no less than 8 antennae. Its WLAN component is as impressive as its wired networking one. On the WLAN side, you get an 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6) set up with up to 4,804 Mbps over the 5 GHz band + up to 1,300 Mbps over the 2.4 GHz band, adding up to 6,104 Mbps in dual-band mode. Even over the older 802.11ac standard, the router offers up to 4,333 Mbps (5 GHz) + 1,000 Mbps (2.4 GHz). The WLAN component offers the latest security features, including WPA3-Personal and WPA2-Enterprise.

The wired networking setup of the ASUS RT-AX89X includes two 10 GbE uplinks, one 1 GbE WAN uplink, and eight 1 GbE LAN downlinks. The 10 GbE ports can be individually reconfigured as LAN downlinks. Also on offer are two 5 Gbps USB 3.1 type-A ports that can take in USB cellular Internet dongles, and USB mass-storage devices, such as flash drives, external storage devices, etc. The company didn't mention the router's signal strength in dBi, but rates it for "very large homes." The company didn't reveal pricing.

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29 Comments on ASUS Intros RT-AX89X AX6000 Gaming Router with Dual 10GbE Ports

#26
TheLostSwede
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ncrsHaving had recent experience in this I'll say it's very short runs :) I even found a 2m Cat 5e that failed to support 10Gbit.
I had it working for a good few months over a 2m Cat 5e cable before even realising I was using the "wrong" type of cable...
I guess it depends on the quality of the cable and I wouldn't recommend it for sure.

As a side note, I have a Netgear GS110EMX switch and it gets quite toasty as well, since it's passive. And that's with only two 10Gbps ports...
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richmaxw
Actually, the RT-AX89X doesn't support WPA3, yet. The specification page for the router here is just wrong. In the Web UI, it only lets you choose WPA2 or regular WPA. I contacted ASUS support and they informed me that they will be adding support via a firmware update later. It's misleading to say the least that they would put it in the specs before it was actually added. Everything else is fine with the router. I couldn't care less how it looks because it's in a crawl space in my house. It actually looks better in person than in the pictures, as well.
TheLostSwedeI had it working for a good few months over a 2m Cat 5e cable before even realising I was using the "wrong" type of cable...
I guess it depends on the quality of the cable and I wouldn't recommend it for sure.

As a side note, I have a Netgear GS110EMX switch and it gets quite toasty as well, since it's passive. And that's with only two 10Gbps ports...
I use Category 5e for 10-gigabit at my house. I have a few seven-meter runs with it and it works fine. The disks in my computers can't send more than about 6 Gbps, but it will hit that, at least.
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TheLostSwede
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richmaxwI use Category 5e for 10-gigabit at my house. I have a few seven-meter runs with it and it works fine. The disks in my computers can't send more than about 6 Gbps, but it will hit that, at least.
If the data link is auto negotiated at 10Gbps, it shouldn't be a problem. It all comes down to the cable quality. I'm back to using a Cat 5e cable for a short stretch as well, as I had to re-purpose a longer Cat 6 cable for another system. Don't have any runs long enough to require Cat 6A anyhow so...
richmaxwActually, the RT-AX89X doesn't support WPA3, yet. The specification page for the router here is just wrong. In the Web UI, it only lets you choose WPA2 or regular WPA. I contacted ASUS support and they informed me that they will be adding support via a firmware update later. It's misleading to say the least that they would put it in the specs before it was actually added. Everything else is fine with the router. I couldn't care less how it looks because it's in a crawl space in my house. It actually looks better in person than in the pictures, as well.
This seems par for course for a lot 802.11ax hardware. An asterisk on the box and a note in a tiny font saying that this feature will come in a future firmware update, which many never happen. It all comes down to the chipset manufacturer if they deliver a new firmware or not. I would personally not touch any first gen 802.11ax hardware.
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#29
Makaveli
richmaxwActually, the RT-AX89X doesn't support WPA3, yet. The specification page for the router here is just wrong. In the Web UI, it only lets you choose WPA2 or regular WPA. I contacted ASUS support and they informed me that they will be adding support via a firmware update later. It's misleading to say the least that they would put it in the specs before it was actually added. Everything else is fine with the router. I couldn't care less how it looks because it's in a crawl space in my house. It actually looks better in person than in the pictures, as well.
This is normal with Asus routers.

My Asus AX88U didn't have Wifi 6 or WPA3 out of the box and was added later via firmware update.

And as TheLostSwede points out it chipset dependent. It took a while for broadcom chipset in my router to get official approval for Wifi 6.
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