Joined on 02/08/14
S'okay
Pros: It works, eventually. Liking the GUI BIOS after I get used to it. Supports anything I want to do with it. Decent price.
Cons: It was DOA. Had to go through an RMA after discovering the original shipped with bent pins and judging from some trouble shooting I did over some strange stuff it was doing may not have actually supported the newer Haswell CPUs. Honestly, I though I was buying the G45 with some extra bells and whistles, plus more PCIe slots. I only got this on a misclick, but it works.
Pointless purchase
Pros: It supports all the modern cards I'm aware of and probably some I'm not. Has several USB plugs including two 3.0 "super speed" (Oh in ten years when they will gag at the thought of a mere 5Gb/s being called super anything... But I digress) connectors.
Cons: Took more effort then I'd like to get the thing to work at all. It's been a brick since I got it over six months ago. Was in the case so I tinkered with it tonight... And it came on! Huzzah! USB 2.0 works... USB 3.0 works... SD... Doesn't.... MicroSD... Doesn't.... So while technically not a brick anymore the only, only reason to purchase this product... DOESN'T WORK! Apparently not an uncommon thing from the other reviews here, but I figured it was surely a vocal minority. What where the odds I'd buy a dud?
Overall Review: It seemed like just what I needed but since it was DoA for months and non-functional when it decided to actually turn on it turned out to be throwing my money into a fire. I gave it two eggs because the USB does work so I can't give it lowest score possible. But I wouldn't advise anyone buy this reader.
Do NOT buy this piece of <censored>
Pros: It's a modern router with all the bells and whistles. When it works, it's as good as any other.
Cons: As of this writing, plugged directly into my modem, this wonderful piece of tech here has gone down THREE times in the space of time it took me to try writing this review. That's however somewhere around two dozen times for the day so far.And if that wasn't bad enough? Rebooting this friggin thing is such a chore. This may or may not be Comcast specific, but EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. this thing boots up it declares there is no internet. It says this is because my ISPs DHCP is not configured correctly. That is complete horse ****, with at least one tech I found during my troubleshooting of the issue theorizing it's actually a generic "Not our fault!" message it throws off when it has no idea what is wrong. Luckily, I did eventually figure out the solution. Keep in mind there is no guess work here, EVERY step is required. First, you repovision your modem. Next, you restart the mighty ASUS RT-AX3000! It'll still say there is no internet though. Next, you go into DHCP settings ON the router, and turn off it's internal DHCP server. This will take roughly a minute. You'll now be logged out of the router, and probably not able to reconnect. Throw out an IP renewal, log back in. Next, turn DHCP back on. This will also take roughly a minute. Actually these should both take less than a second a piece but for some super intelligent reason this thing throws up a fake loading bar timer any time you change anything. Anywho, you're logged out again! Again, renew your IP, log back in... And it will PROBABLY be working now! Joy! You might get 10, even 15 minutes of internet before having to repeat the process all over!So yeah, pretty big con there. I'm not claiming I'm the Woz or anything, but if someone not as technically inclined as me ran into this problem on this router I doubt they could find all the settings, guess at next steps, and ect to ever figure this out.
Overall Review: If you have comcast, do not buy any ASUS routers. This is apparently a known issue.If you don't have comcast, for all I know it works perfectly 100% of the time. I still wouldn't risk buying any ASUS router.