ASUS RP-AX56 AX1800 Dual Band WiFi 6 (802.11ax) Range
ASUS RP-AX56 AX1800 Dual Band WiFi 6 (802.11ax) Range Extender / AiMesh Extender for seamless mesh WiFi; works with any WiFi route
| Weight: | 420 g |
| Dimensions: | 19.5 x 14.9 x 10.4 cm; 420 Grams |
| Brand: | ASUS |
| Model: | 90IG05P0-MU0410 |
| Colour: | White |
| Batteries Included: | No |
| Manufacture: | ASUS |
| Dimensions: | 19.5 x 14.9 x 10.4 cm; 420 Grams |
Only do this if you have a laptop, you can download the app ASUS Device Discovery from Google Store and Apple Store but it is as just unreliable as their Extender app.
As a Network Engineer I read the reviews to see where people have gone wrong with the setup of this device. The biggest problem here and the elephant in the room is the ASUS Extender App is really buggy and frustrating to set up so let me give you some advice here. If you have an ASUS Router like I do then go to Asus.com then select the menu on the left there are two lines. Go to Support Drivers and Manuals type in the model of your router and type in the model of your router for example mine is GT-AXE16000 go to Drivers & Tools and download ASUS Device Discovery version 1.4.8.3f or Windows.
Set up the extender to the point of completion, then using the ASUS Device Discovery tool on your PC or your Laptop open this and it will find a list of connected devices. Look in the list you will find RP-AX58 click on this and if you were paying attention through the constant crashing of the app… when you set everything up you would have set up an Admin password PLEASE make sure that this password is strong. Login via the WEB INTERFACE of the device and log in with the details you set up at the start. Now configure the extender to what you want to use it for. If you are bridging two extenders together then you can make the changes here its a lot easier and it won’t crash on you every couple of seconds.
My final advice is don’t bother contacting ASUS Yech support their support is abysmal.
I hope this makes it easier.
Really happy with this product. Easy to connect to my ASUS router and extend the Wi-Fi as required to my driveway so my Tesla can connect and run updates.
I’ve used a few different brands in the past with varying degrees of success. But I have to say the AiMesh set from ASUS is the best I have come across. It doesn’t drop connection and seems very stable with a good speed.
Really straight forward to use and connect to existing Aimesh network. However I did have to use Ethernet as I had terrible reception where I wanted wireless
No nonsense, no messing about. Just extended WiFi with no additional sign in, no passing between networks, no handover complications. Just contiguous cover.
I do wish it had a facility to turn off over night, or a low power schedule. However, good device. Finally wifi without grief.
We live in a solidly built brick house with the main ASUS RT-AX68U router in the front room and have replaced some of our power sockets with wifi sockets. This gives a good uninterupted signal throughout the house.
The problem has been getting a decent wifi signal in the back garden. We have this range extender in the conservatory where it picks up the signal from the house network and extends it down the garden to the shed. I am looking forward to working from the garden during the summer months.
Set up was quick and simple using the ASUS app and it forms part of our AiMesh network so it can easily be monitored from the app.
Brought this as I am using a WIFi 6 setup along with the usual WiFi 5 mixed devices. The Mesh system is very good and felt seemless while switching to the next Mesh AP, I purchased two. Speeds are brilliant and super simple to setup, with the Asus App. I was suffering with high noise levels registering mostly 65 to 75 dBm and I installed these am now seeing 55 to 65 dBm which is much healthier.
I chose this as it supports WIFI 6 and the 160mhz connection speed.
I returned the RP-AX58 because of this issue and Amazon sent a replacement – same issue with the replacement.
Don’t know if ASUS have removed this functionality but it makes the device useless for my requirements.
I logged a case with ASUS support but they took so long to respond I returned the second one.
Update from Asus Support on 07/03/23 – “The current behaviour of the ethernet port for RP AX58 and RP AX56 are different.
At the moment GTSD are checking to see if we can release RP AX58’s ethernet port when in AiMesh node mode.
We will have an update in about 3 weeks”
UPDATE 04/09/23 – The issue I reported above has been fixed as of firmware version 3.0.0.4.388.23145 (2023/05/09). This is now functioning as expected and so have now increased to 5* as I have now purchased another unit, updated the firmware and it works perfectly!
Plugged in to the wall socket and connected the Ethernet Cable for Backhaul. Logged into the ASUS router and added the RP-AX58 as a Mesh Node.
Up and running in less than 5 minutes. Works perfectly, no issues so far.
I did have a big problem getting it connected initially however, but some of the other reviews helped with that. Basically, if it won’t setup wirelessly, connect it to a network cable and do it that way. You can unplug the cable after it’s set up, and move it wherever you need to.
My ASUS router is great and so secure, but it doesn’t reach out to the sauna in my garage. This extender linked easily to the router, which detected it and set itself up as a Mesh system. The speed is similar to the router itself, so now I can stream movies etc.!!
followed the instructions using the App on my iPhone and within 5 minutes had it meshed to my existing ASUS router and in place in another part of my house. Great level of WiFi signal and no dropouts
With the app I was literally up and running within 3 minutes. Its certainly increased my signal at the end of the house but I do seem to get a slower connection than when devices are connected directly to the AC88U. Thats slightly put me off adding another at the other end of the house but we’ll have to see
Plug in, switch on, connect. Very easy to use and great extende
Great and easy to add to fill in the wifi gaps in my home mesh.
I have an Asus hub and I tried to use the app I already had to install this but it doesn’t work you have to get specific app for this device even though it is supposed to be AsusMesh. Once I figured that out it works fine but the range is not as good as I expected so I had to find a good position.
I researched for weeks to establish what was the right product for me. Firstly my main aim was to increase my signal to the rear of my garden to reach my bar at the furthest point from my boundary, which is 80ft away from my back door. My router is located in the centre of my house under the stairs. I have to say the reviews were very mixed across the majority of the models that I looked at online. However, reviews seemed much more positive with this model, “Asus RP AX56”, and I was drawn to this more than the others as I am using an Asus DSL-AC68U router. I decided on using the Aimesh node, so I proceeded to download the app on my iPhone, plugged the repeater and followed the instructions on my app. Within minutes it was fully configured and looked to be up and running. I logged into my router from my mac and saw that the imesh had added the new product successfully.
The system had already recognised the best “clients” to add to the repeater without needing wifi points. Perfect! I now have excellent connections throughout my garden and outbuildings. I was expecting a nightmare and was pleasantly surprised. A beer to celebrate!!
Over the years I’ve used WiFi extenders (horrifically bad), a powerline fed Access point (slow due to the need to cross between ring main circuits), and WiFi5 based Asus AiMesh using old equipment (still needed powerline connection to get good speeds). All of these have managed some degree of success, but never quite good enough. *I also recently tried an Asus XD4 which should have worked, but there is either a compatibility issue or the unit I tried was faulty.*
Set up of the RT-AX56U range extender did not go to plan, and took several attempts. I finally managed to get it to AiMesh with the router by connecting using an ethernet cable. Once it had downloaded it’s settings from the router it was possible to disconnect the cable and it worked wirelessly. The one oddity that became apparent shortly after was that on the 2.4GHz band I’ve had the router set to automatically pick 20MHz/40Mhz, but it’s always stuck on 20MHz, but the extender in it’s sheltered location decided it could manage 40MHz bandwidth. The 40MHz or mismatch of bandwidth seemed to cause the security camera a few streaming issues, and so dropping this down to a force 20MHz fixed things! *No issues with the router having a 160MHz bandwidth and the extender having an 80MHz bandwidth on the 5GHz band.*
In use: In the location I’ve placed the extender I don’t need ultrafast WiFi, just reliable WiFi – which I now seem to have! Speedtesting a 1200AX capable phone through the extender gives a respectable 350+Mbps connection. Forcing internet speed tests through the extender generated a latency of 18ms to the server compared to 12ms connection via WiFi to the router and 10ms connecting to the router via an ethernet cable – much to my surprise it actually proved possible to play a streaming game on Stadia when connected via the extender! The surprise though, as been how the router and extender seem to manage connections. While I initially forced the central heating controller and security cam through the extender, the force doesn’t seem to be necessary. Letting the router and extender work together, both devices will send their occasional beacon (I’m alive) signals to the router, ignoring the extender. But as soon as they need any bandwidth they switch to the extender. Having used previous extenders this “smart switching” surprised me, but so far it’s been flawless! The extender itself connects to the router at it’s full 1200AX 5GHz speed which considering the distance to the router and the obstacles (a supporting wall, a panel wall, and a floor) really surprised me.
All in all, this is probably the first WiFi extender I’ve used in person that lives up to its promises. Set up was definitely more of a pain than I’d hoped, but now up and running as an AiMesh node it has more than surpassed my expectations!