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RAX50 AX5400 AX-6 Stream Router - Access Control Screen on Web Interface Goes Blank!
Hello Community! 1st Pls pardon the length of this post. Here's the deal. June 12th Purchased RAX50 AX as replacement for Older NetGear AC router. -Setup Router by loading latest firmware .chk...
Yes, not unusual for Netgear products to not be certified especially when the they put out routers during the draft period (before it becomes final and AX certifiable).
AX non certified routers means they are not guarenteed/required to have all the features required by the WiFi Alliance. As important, they are not guarenteed to work with other WiFi Aliance certified AX devices. Also to be certified requires extensive testing to prove it meets the WiFi aliance criteria. It's good you bought a AX certified router.
Good luck with your new router.
New Router is
ASUS RT-AX88U
So for really liking it!
Will give a couple of days more, post back and then close this discussion.
Did a quick look at the ASUS RT-AX88U that you bought as a replacement for your unreliable Netgear RAX50 router. The specs look great.Great reviews. Full featured. Sounds like an upgrade. Let us know how it works out especially reliability and if all functions advertised are available and working consistantly. Thanks.
Will do..!
slackrl
1st of all pricing.
The RAX-50 MSRP $299.00 US
The ASUS RT AX88U MSRP $350.00 US
My cost $299.00 USSo far all feature sets appear to work well. Time will tell.
This Post is not to bash NetGear products...!
I do have other NetGear Equipment that I'm keeping and is working well, using in conjunction with this ASUS router.I do hope NetGear Engineers are peeking in and taking notes.
This could up their game!This router is definetly an upgrade
-From 4 lan ports to 8 Lan ports.
-Trend Micro comes with free life time support.
-Router Security Assessment.
-Malicious Sites Blocking.
-Vulnerability Protection.
-Infected Device Prevention and Blocking.
-Whereas the RAX-50 with Bit Defender paid subscription.
Nothing against Bit Defender I did like what it was doing for network protection.
-Mesh ready.
-More stable and responsive Phone app.
-Parental Control.
-Dual ISP Support using one of the lan ports as a 2nd WAN port, or usb ports for phone isp tethering if primary isp goes down secondary ips will kick in.
-Can funtion as gaming router.
-WiFi6 Certified.
-2 Year WarrantyIn light of new trends agaisnt using mac filtering protection which can allow mac spoofing.ect.
( Again: See Apple's new network setup recommedations.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211227 )
This router will let me see all attached devices when not using mac filtering, for monitoring, which the RAX-50 would not.Features I really like:
A working simulator/demo to test drive the router's web GUI.
First time I tried it I thought I was using someone's router!
https://demi.asus.com/index.asp
IMHO: NetGear should create one of these!Traffic Analyzer
-Ability to see graphically how devices are using up bandwith, you can even see what apps on an individual device are using.
-Abiltiy to see web pages visited by devices and browsers.
Adaptive QoS
-Easily Setup QoS In fact the grapic and animation with this router help me finally wrap my head QoS.Things that I had to work at with this router
-MAC Filtering equivalent on this router is what ASUS calls static ip assignment or so it seems.
However there is a MAC Address Asignment area, maybe I need more time with that one.
-Not as intutive as NetGear some things are more technical, However setup is a breeze just let ther router figure out your isp just as NetGear routers do, then tweak from there.
-Once setup the ASUS router will change your lan ip addressing to 192.168.50.xxx instead of 192.168.1.xxx
easily changed in case you need to keep the same lan ip scheme.
-Had to turn on the router's firewall.Things to try
Ability to use third party user web GUI interface that looks just like the stock inteface.
With the third party approved by ASUS and the abilty to return to the Original stock at anytime.
The 3rd party interface having more options that get passed down to the stock interface.
Supposedly 3rd Party get's more updates than the stock from what I can see with a stable version and beta version.Well enough for now as this is a NetGear forum.
Respectfully
slackrl