TP-Link Archer AX6000 Next-Gen WiFi 6 Gigabit Dual Band
TP-Link Archer AX6000 Next-Gen WiFi 6 Gigabit Dual Band Wireless Cable Router, WiFi Speed up to 4804Mbps/5GHz+1148Mbps/2.4GHz, 8 Gigabit LAN Ports, Ideal for Gaming Xbox/PS4/Steam & 4K/8K Streaming
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AV1000 Gigabit Powerline Kit
- HomePlug AV2 Standard – high-speed data transfer rates of up to 1000 Mbps
- Gigabit port
- Up to 300 Meters
| Dimensions: | 26.13 x 26.13 x 6.05 cm; 2.02 Kilograms |
| Model: | Archer AX6000 |
| Manufacture: | TP-Link |
| Dimensions: | 26.13 x 26.13 x 6.05 cm; 2.02 Kilograms |
The product is fast and has a good number of wired connections to compliment the wireless signal. I live in a two-bedroom flat with the worst radio transparency, so I have added a compatible mesh component to keep the speed up throughout the house. I have lived with this router for nigh on 2 years now and have no significant complaints. My gaming computer lives at the other end of the house and is linked through a network switch which is two wire link aggregated through the house with cat 6 to the router. I did my homework beforehand. So the router satisfies all my needs.
Has open vpen but cannot get nordvpn to work on i
The only hard bit of setting up this router was convincing my Virgin Media Super Hub to switch to modem mode! Once I’d done that, I plugged this router into it, and we were off to the races. The router lives in one corner of my home, down on the ground floor. The 5G signal is strong and fast throughout my home. I have an old computer in the attic room and it gets a really good signal. It just works.
So far this has been a good experience. Installation was straight forward and signal etc is great. I was worried at first because I recently purchased an Asus AX55 Wifi 6 router and found that it was impossible to connect my honeywell heating controller and Ring doorbell to it but with this A6000, both connected straight away. The Asus is now an expensive access point.
Update: I have just noticed that my Ring 3 doorbell fails all attempts to connect tp wifi, Ring alarm is ok so far.
Been looking for a replacment home router for a while, the reviews on this one were good. Simple to get up and running, the teather app is good and the web interface is excellent. Covers the whole house with no issues, everything that was connected before has a better signal! The icing on the cake was that it looks good, fits on a shelf and doesn’t look like somthing out of Star Wars 🙂
I read the reviews and finally made the decision to order. This was to replace my Virgin Hub 3 – although I’ve only been with virgin 3 weeks, I’ve come to quickly realise their hub 3 is totally useless. It was consistently dropping out of Wi-Fi and also giving terrible speed performance. I connected the TP link C2300 and ran through the initial setup (which is easy btw). All you need to do is switch the virgin hub 3 into modem mode
What a difference this has made. The user app is great and has loads of info on it. We haven’t suffered any loss in Wi-Fi signal or service since fitting this and nearly always get out full speed. Everyone in our house is happy even my 14 year old son is happy and how often can you say that!!
So I purchased the Archer C2300 and switched my Hub 3 to modem mode only. The difference was immediate. Getting the full broadband limit instantly. Wifi doesn’t drop out and no streaming issues. I also noticed the wifi signal travelled further through my house giving a better signal that some of my powerline adapter wifi units.
I have since stripped out the powerline adapters and purchased 2 more C2300’s and connected them around my house with Cat8 cables. Now I have 500mb throughout the whole house upstairs and downstairs.
Ive had these installed for 2 months now and not had one issue. Constantly getting full broadband and best of all, daily reboots of my Virgin Hub are a thing of the past.
The performance from our Virgin 3 Hub was poor and no amount of service visits fixed it. Why didn’t Virgin tell us to just use the Hub as a modem and add a better Router? This one seems to do the job. Relatively easy to install if you follow the instructions. Much better signal strength than the Virgin Hub – but more importantly, much better reliability – even when in the same room. No more messed up Zoom calls. No need for a mesh system in our five bedroom house on three levels. This and one and a single repeater does the trick. Highly recommended.
I am with Virgin media as a broadband supplier, their modem/router is not the best, so I decided to buy a better one. I put my Virgin Media modem/router in modem only mode and now use the TP-Link router to supply my Wi-Fi, the difference is amazing, a strong signal all over the house, even in the garage, brilliant piece of kit.
I purchased this router to address drop-out zones in a large Church when using the existing modem/router. This product (TP-Link Archer C2300) has made a huge improvement. No more drop-out zones! I now have stable WIFI, faster download speeds and, faster upload speeds. The installation was very straightforward. I simply connected it to my existing modem/router and scanned the QR code on the back of the new router using my smartphone. I would certainly recommend this product.
Was worried about replacing the supplied hub from Virgin and I had Sky a month before that. Needn’t have worried … Wins all round: faster performance that the Virgin and Sky hubs, more reliable (those annoying drop-outs on Teams calls never happen now), more secure with HomeCare (which has already stopped some Malware. Yes, I have a virus/malware scanner on my PCs)
Two tips:
1) Add the guest wifi, with a password (for security !), only need 2.4 GHz, to allow some apple devices to connect. Some apple devices (because apple is a law unto themselves), doesn’t always like Smart Connect
2) Use a wifi analyser/sniffer app, to choose channels, which are not heavily used in your area. This will improve reliability and performance. You have to turn off Smart Connect, select the channels manually for both 2.4 and 5 GHz and then turn Smart Connect back on. You’ll then have Smart Connect and the performance/load sharing but on channels not hogged
This tp-link ac2300 has better speed and coverage than my ISP supplied Two Linksys Velop setup.
In the same furthest room from the main router with the same tech I’m getting no dropouts and faster speeds.
mobile phone was 140Mbps-now 300Mbps see pic
ipad was 220Mbps-now 550Mbps
I couldn’t believe it so I changed back to the velop and speeds dropped back again.
At 79.99 its a bargain.
I had two previous Netgear Nighthawks. They were unreliable and unmanageable. Neither lasted longer than 18 months which was disappointing. The TPLInk was easier to set up, seems faster and has been more stable. Its designed as a Streaming Router as opposed to the Netgear being a gaming router, but it most certainly seems to be better thought out for users. I combine with TPlink Powerline to create a seamless flow around our large house.
So far a doddle to set up and Wifi coverage amazing. Such a contrast to the poor Virgin Router. Had constant issues with drop out with Virgin router particularly when watching movies. So far the AX6000 has been solid. Will need to confirm after a few weeks of use.
I have this setup as my primary wifi router connected to a virgin hub 3 (setup in modem mode). The setup was mostly straight forward due to their android app taking you through all of the steps etc. It covers my medium sized home with signal all through on both bands, with good speeds too!
We were initially hesitant about spending over 100 on additional hardware – after all, VM should provide kit that works out of the box, right? However, we’d just had enough of the poor, inconsistent signal around the house, as well as the constant and inexplicable drop-outs. There’s no point in call VM customer service when this happens either. They haven’t got a clue what they’re doing and they can’t replace the crap hardware; they just try and sell you wifi extenders!
This C2300 router has been absolutely perfect and I don’t regret spending the money on it at all. It was very easy to set up and within about 15 minutes (ironically, less time than we spent on hold to VM customer service), we had better wifi signal in every corner of the house.
We’ve been using it for a week and the signal hasn’t dropped out once. Every single device is getting better and more consistent speeds now than we ever had with the VM superhub. I wish we’d done this sooner to be honest.
The problem is not really VM’s speed or connection, it’s the cheap and inefficient antennas they put into their hardware. Our speeds were dropping by 100Mbps just by stepping from the living room (where our VM hub is situated) and into the kitchen, which is only 3 or 4 metres away. There were rooms upstairs where we couldn’t get a decent connection to the router at all without using wifi extenders and we don’t have a really big house!
We don’t have any of those problems anymore though. We’ve got strong signal everywhere around the house. Where I’m sitting right now (my office upstairs) I’m probably about 5-6 meters from the router at most. I was getting 50-60 Mbps in here before. I’m getting between 280-320 Mbps now, easily.
Bottom line; I feel like – for the first time ever – we’re actually getting the speed we’re paying for. It’s a bit disappointing that we had to do this to achieve it, for sure, but I’m so glad we found a solution. It was worth every penny.
I was using an Archer C9 as an additional access point to try to persuade my Ring doorbell to admit that it could see a wifi signal… This has now replaced both the BT Hub 6 wifi AND the C9, gives a usable (SONOS/phone) signal 50m down the garden – AND the Ring doorbell reckons it has – just- sufficient RSSI… My newly installed wifi cameras are also using it and all have 98-100% signal.
I was getting a strong wifi signal in the same room as the Virgin router but elsewhere in the modest sized house the wifi signal was poor or non-existent and Virgin Media were no help in solving the problem. I tried cheaper methods spending up to 40 each on a couple of devices but it was money wasted. I had to solve the issue so investigated further and decided on this router. Great choice!
It does not replace the VM router but keys into it via a short ethernet cable (supplied) and 10 minutes later I have wifi right through the house and down the garden and always at or above the advertised virgin speeds of 350mps.
One small issue I have noticed is what appears to be micro-dropouts of a second or so when a device will report ‘no signal’ but then its back and the problem vanishes. I have no idea why this happens but it does. Otherwise a great investment and I’m very happy with it.
I’d read good reviews on this TP-Link C2300, so I decided to utilise my Hub 3 as a modem and I purchased this C2300 to obviously use as my router.
Some reviewers claimed 5 minutes to setup, I’m sure that is possible if you’ve done this before, as it was, it took me approx 20 minutes, as I wanted to check all the settings and do a speed test in every room (no point spending the money if it wasn’t any better)
Success, wifi speeds upstairs now as fast as my Virgin Media package will allow, upstairs 350-380Mbps and downstairs 150-380Mbps, the bottom of my garden approx 20M from the house still registers 150+Mbps.
I’ve not owned it long enough to comment on the consistency, only time will tell…
Update; 8 months on, still as good and no need to constantly reboot like the VM hub
As an avid gamer I bought this after becoming fed up with the poor signal from my VM hub 3 router. I now achieve approximately 50-60% of maximum speed at the furthest points in a large 4 bedroom house. My previous router was achieving 16% at best. The C2300 achieves close to 100% of max speed in most of the house.
Having had issues with the WiFi signal in my house for years I decided that the time had come for a change, I needed a new WiFi router. I researched what was out there looking at cost, signal and overall product reviews
The AC4000 seemed to meet all the criteria I was looking for, cost is average not the cheapest or dearest, signal wise it covers my whole house (3 bed semi) without the need for any additional boosters or the built in booster being switched on. Completed a speed on my mobile in a part of the house which had hardly none or connection the result can be seen in the attached picture, but it went from nothing really to full bandwidth connection speed as if I was connected via ethernet cable.
The installation instructions could be better, followed the instructions for cabling, connecting & activation which seemed pretty straight forward, however could not get a connection, after trying quite a few times I searched on forums for a solution but still no joy, deciding to give their customer services a call I spoke with a very helpful chap in an offshore centre and spent the next hour trying various ideas & eventually got the router connected .
Pros – Good price, Great signal & customer service
Cons – Installation instructions could be better
Over extremely happy with the router so far and not getting nagged at by the kids is a bonus
After suffering from known issues with the Virgin Media Hub 3 for too long I finally bit the bullet and purchased one on these fantastic routers and I have to say it surpassed all my expectations. I have had it set up about a week now and touch wood not one single device has been kicked off the network not like the daily reboot of the Virgin Hub.
Set up was a breeze I downloaded the associated app and linked the router to the app before connecting to what was to become the Virgin Modem & that was the hardest part of the set up the Hub 3 took a couple of goes before it would switch over to Modem mode but once it had I then connected the router & used the utility in the app to change the default network id & password to my existing one and all devices connected within a few minutes and WOW what a difference everything is so much faster on the web and ironically the 2 Virgin TiVo boxes are working so much better the EPG is lighting fast, and no more buffering whilst watching films on other apps.
Been having issues with Virgin Media wi-fi for months -unstable and unpredictable but wired connection got near advertised speeds. Took more than a week to get through to Virgin Media then spent >4hrs on a message help line and advised disable one of the dual bands but wi-fi speed still around 1mb There was no comment when I asked if I should get another router and put hub in modem mode ..
Anyway issue still unresolved so took the plunge and ordered this bracing myself for days of trying to get it to work
But it turns out set up couldn’t be simpler -it just works -amazing . Even in the furthest room. All those cables and wi-fi boosters now redundant and printer at last has decided it will join the network
Slick , fast and well engineered
No, I was really prepared (after reading other reviews), to spend hours ‘porting’ and re-configuring, but no, if my experience is anything to go by it is very easy to do.
The main reason we (as a family) upgraded was because when had updated to ios14 it stated ‘weak security’ now whilst we would have probably been ok (I mean this would have been the case for a long time), when it is bought to ‘starkly’ to mind, we thought thus it would be a ‘good idea’ to upgrade, so glad we did!
When it comes to Wireless this router has one of the best ranges for any I’ve ever had, where I had coverage grey spots (even on 2.4Ghz) I now have total coverage through the house, it also supports the latest Wifi6 which gives you some great features, I wont list all here however the highlights for Wifi are: MU-MIMO, OFDMA and Guest network which allows you can restrict guests from the rest of your network, protecting any network drives etc.
The security options are wide ranging from wireless security supports up to WPA3 personal and WPA2 Enterprise.
From a network security level you get a lifetime subscription to Trendmicro Anti-virus, this blocks malicious content, intrusion protection and will even quarantine an infected device from the rest of your network. Of course you also get a firewall with all the standard options with highly configurable port forwarding and triggering.
Parental controls allow you assign specific devices different levels of filtering from child through to adult and time limits and bed time which can be varied based on day of the week.
Finally, the router has QoS settings, you can chose from preset application settings such as streaming, gaming, surfing, chatting and custom, allowing you granular control. Alternatively you can prioritise individual devices.
In short, this router has everything for both the standard router and the advanced user: If you’re looking for a router with great range, great speeds and is highly configurable, this is the router for you.
Pros:
Tri-band – Good if you have a lot of devices to connect
Very strong wifi signal at short range
Looks good
Solid build
Cons:
Shorter range wifi coverage (not a problem if your router is placed central)
TP-LINK Archer C2300 provides better wifi coverage and stronger signal at longer range (recommend this model)
2 x 5GHz band is unnecessary if you only have 10 or so devices to connec
I purchased this item after many years spent nursing and looking after my Asus RT-68u devices which I had in a mesh network configuration. As good as they were, I got tired of the weekly reboots, factory reset and new firmware uploads to make them stable. Stable they absolutely were not!!! Of course, working from home has made this all the more immediate as I now need something ultra reliable as does my wife and my daughter!!
After looking at reviews and documentation, I took the plunge and purchased the tp-link archer ax6000 which promptly arrived from Amazon next day. I was pleased that I could retire an external switch as the Archer has 8 gigabit LAN ports. I kept my 2ghz and 5ghz SSID the same as my old setup and, this meant that the moment I fired up the new router everything connected instantly.
This is an amazing device; no drop outs anywhere in my detached house and speeds on 5ghz of 150mb+.
After 2 weeks of use, I am pleased to report no failures. No reboots. All working perfectly and seemlessly. Definite 5* vote from me!
Well done TP-LINK.
Bought this as was totally frustrated at the very poor WiFi capabilities of my Virgin “Super” Hub 3.
This little box has improved things no end. I now have 2 networks (a 2.4 Ghz and a 5Ghz). The 5Ghz has brilliant download speeds, and although the range of it doesn’t extend throughout my entire house it is much better than the Super Hub 3.
The range on the 2.4Ghz is much better, and even though the speed isn’t as good as the 5Ghz network it is still WAAAY better than the Super Hub 3.
Overall I’m very happy with it.
I bought this router because the previous DLINK I ordered did not work properly on 2.4gh mode for my security cameras. This Bad boy TPLINK C4000 not only has tri band and security cameras worked perfect but it now cover the entire 4 bedroom 2 story house including right to the back of my back garden with 4 bars. I have had to use an extender plugged at back of house to get this before. Everything just works great on this. If you have a crappy Virgin 3 not so superhub. Then this is what you want. great QOS, security and family controls as standard. Best purchase of 2020 thank you TPLINK.
We lurched along with a Virgin V3 hub & 350Mbit package for six months until we could take no more. Virgin could never answer why aggregate across all devices topped out at 150mbit on the odd occasion it managed to hold five or more connections for two minutes without locking up. It was as if tech support had been told not to engage on the topic of the V3 being rubbish and talk around it.
If you live in a UK standard construction three storey house and have VM coming in in the ground floor you don’t need mesh or repeaters or hybrid or power line or anything fancy – you just need an Archer C4000.
Download the TP link tether app before you start.
Log into your V3, put it in modem mode, note the IP address change (the V3 flags it) and you will need a cable in the back if you ever need to access it again (unlikely).
Plug a laptop into one of the Ethernet (not the WAN) ports on the back of the c4000 and turn it on. Find the relevant bit on the fold-out instructions about how to log in, log in then throw instructions in the trash.
Use quick setup to set different names for each of the three bands. Set it to Dynamic IP. Set it to wireless router mode. Plug a CAT6 cable into any Ethernet port in the back of the V3 and into the WAN/Internet port on the C4000. REMOVE THE TIVO CABLE FROM THE V3 AND PLUG IT INTO ONE OF THE ETHERNET PORTS ON THE C4000 (or your programme guide will grind to a gradual halt!), turn everything off and power up C4000 first, then V3 and wait…
Log onto the C4000 wifi with a smartphone. It probably will not see the internet first time – the C4000 seemed to take a few minutes to get going – but we fired up the Tether app and ran some of the simple diagnostics and selected the option to let it ‘fix’ whatever problem it was having – it instantly sprang to life. We were up and running in well under ten minutes from the Amazon guy banging on the door.
We now have all the old crud on the 2.4GHz network, three children streaming / minecrafting together on their own 5GHz band and work stuff on the other 5GHz band. It is crazy fast. Picture attached is bandwidth test as far away from C4000 as you can get indoors.
There is zero speed degradation anywhere indoors and it is rock solid stable. We even get 150Mbit (more than when sitting on top of the V3) at the end of the garden now.
We too love this piece of black plastic.
Purchased this on a friends recommendation. According to his research it featured within top 5 (I believe 3rd) against other devices in it’s class, even though it’s regarded as a “budget” device.
Requirement was to replace Virgins next to near useless Hub 3.0, which doesn’t (At least mine didn’t) separate out the 2.4GHz & 5GHz wireless network.
Now what I didn’t want was another device in the chain, at least not one which would cause double NAT issues. So when the Virgin Hub 3.0 is placed into Modem mode (Default is Router mode), the TP-Link C2300 can operate as the router… It just requires a little network savvy, and a big hint here (For Virgin users) is to Clone Current Computer MAC Address… It’s even an option within the Quick Setup, so shouldn’t be too onerous.
I have configured this in access point mode, with the DHCP server turned on. I expected to see more options in the config app or web UI (like my previous access point/router from Asus), but this TP Link device “Just Works” with whatever its hidden internal options are.
It’s unusual to have an 8 port switch built-in, which is why I bought this to use next to my main working desk. Screw holes for wall mounting are convenient, and I’ve mounted this near to the middle of the ground floor of my house. The 8-antenna access point reaches across and up and down my house providing surprisingly fast WiFi 6 speeds, but I do still have one room where the WiFi is marginal.
I’ve been surprised that no new firmware has been offered to provide WPA 3 security or One Mesh (WiFi roaming) features yet, but the TP Link website says that they are coming.
I haven’t used the applications or USB drive sharing features yet.
Let me describe the issues I was seeing with my Virgin Media Hub3 that are now resolved which may help other people.
1. WiFi connected but some devices reporting no internet while others were fine. The number one frustration.
2. General slow down
3. Phone losing contact with Chromecast dongle
4. Virgin Media TV box reporting no connection even when connected (same as point 1 I guess)
I have read that the Hub3 router from Virgin Media struggles when there are lots of device connected at the same time. We have a household of 4 all with phones etc so we were seeing 10+ devices connected. Too much for the poor Hub3 to deal with. No issues for the TP-Link though. Switch the Hub3 into modem mode and connect the supplied Ethernet cable from Hub3 port 1 to the Internet port on the TP-Link and off you go. I renamed the WiFi networks to be the same as the Hub3 ones no devices needed settings changed. We now get strong WiFi and fast speeds all round the house. No need for the range extender upstairs that has now been unplugged. Writing this during the coronavirus lockdown and having to work from home. In the back bedroom I had to use a powerline Ethernet connection to be able to maintain a decent connection for conference calls etc. Now I am back on WiFi with a speed of 100Mbps! Webpages load in a flash and downloads fly in. I never thought my home WiFi would be like this! I even have the WiFi set to medium power so not even getting the maximum out of this router.
One big difference is that Chromecast connections between the dongle and phone are rock solid. The Virgin TV box has a Chromecast built in which in the past occasionally showed up and sometimes even worked. Now it is a dream to use.
So, if you are seeing problems with your Hub3 this may be the solution. It has been for me.
Even using Wifi extenders still the wifi signal from Superhub 2 would just drop out, or just stop.
Not being very techie, I read most of the reviews of this AC2300 watched many youtube clips of setup etc and took the plunge and ordered. Plus cat 5 extender cable as I thought to place it in a more open area. In trepidation I open box tried tom understand the connection setup, not totally successful. Read an article by Amit Agarwal followed his basic instructions and hey presto New router/Wifi working. (As well as wifi from Superhub). The result was astounding, not only WiFi around the house but even the Ring Door video worked almost instantaneous.
After a week, I moved the AC2300 back into the study onto of a shelf, plugged in all the remaining LAN connectors from Superhub into the AC2300, and wow, the speed of all these connected devices was so impressive my wife wondered what was happening. Now I have surplus cable, joiners, pushdown tool etc, probably 40.00 worth, even so it was worth it. I now understand that the AC2300 as a router is running at gigabytes between all our connected units, in fact using the 100mbyte Virginmedia internet at virtually true speed.
I am so impressed. But this is technology which we older generation fail to see, and fail to upgrade to.
I only gave Tech support 3 star was not that good for a non techie. Oh for a telephone help line!
It really is a terrific device, very pleased indeed with it and myself for plucking up courage to attempt to install it, successfully.
Result.
It took all of ten mins to set up. Then a day and a half on the phone to the Indian Sub-continent which is VM tech support. Turns out the VM 3.0 hub didn’t want to go into whatever mode your supposed to put it in. Anyway one new VM hub later, start it all up and wow, life transformed. Which is why I actually do love this lump of plastic. Now two months down the line, I asked my wife how she liked the new wifi set up? To which she looked at me as if I was stupid and said “you should of sorted it out yonks ago. What you after a round of applause?” Well to me that is a win! Sorted.
We’ve had an older model of the top brand of Asus and it wasn’t cutting it as the speeds kept dropping and I did a lot of research on routers and found this great device. It’s a bit pricey but worth every penny as I’m connecting to 5g connection all over the house and it’s amazingly fast! It doesn’t overheat like my previous router as well and there’s not one bad thing I can say about it except maybe the price it isn’t cheap but you get what you pay for and I’m hoping this will last as well but so far so good.
I purchased this as a replacement for the unstable Netgear RAX80; only had it a week so early days but thus far it has outperformed the Netgear on every level. I use it as an Access Point (internet comes in via another device). All devices stay connected (over 30 of them, TVs, Smart Heating, Smart Lighting, Smart Plugs, Smart Phones, Tablets, PCs, Laptops, CCTV, Alarms, Dyson Robot Vac…etc). WiFi speeds are very good although given the size of the router and the number of antennas I was hoping it would reach the far corners of the house a little better but overall, excellent router all. I’m very pleased with it and would recommend.
Anyway, I bought this, with cat7 ethernet cable and wall mounted it higher up to give maximum improvement. Unfortunately in bed I still only see 1-2 bar signal for some reason, zero improvement. However, the speed has improved and it now streams 1080p automatically most of the time. I was just expecting more on the signal quality if I’m honest.
Side note, setup was very easy. My ISP said to use a PPPoE compatible router which this is. Used the setup wizard and was all sorted in under a minute.
UPDATE:
So, i think it may have been my foolishness and also the difference in quality and range that you get on the 5GHz setting/channel. I selected 5G as it is supposed to be quicker but i think the 2 peak at different ranges. Long story short, when on a like for like comparison of the 2.4GHz channel (same as my previous router) my signal now varies between 3-4 bars (4 being max), an improvement on the 1-2 i was getting before. Score updated to 5*
To touch on the set up very briefly, it was a doddle.. Literally did it on my phone via the app. I was almost a little annoyed that it didn’t require more effort on my part. I was able to set up the router, set up separate 2.4GHz and 5GHz SSIDs, hide them, create a guest network (of which you can also split into a separate 2.4 and 5GHz) assign static IPs etc, all from the app. You can get into the more advanced settings from the web interface.
This isn’t a review of my previous Asus router but to say this is an upgrade is an understatement. My RT-AC88U ran incredibly hot, to the point where I had to put a desk fan next to it to blow air over it. It was also unreliable. All 3 failed inside of a year with different issues.. LAN ports failed, couldn’t detect devices on the network, couldn’t assign IP addresses to wired devices etc etc. This is of course subjective but the AX6000 looks a lot better too. The angular “gamer” aesthetic does nothing for me, especially with something like a router that, in my case at least, sits in a (ventilated) closet.
The only negative thing I can say about the router is the price. Nearly 350 is a LOT to spend on a router, and time will tell if the money was well spent, but if the cost isn’t a concern, just pick one up and don’t worry about buying another router for a few years at the very least. Very much a “no-nonsense” bit of equipment.
Side note: I’ve only given 3 stars for support because I didn’t need to contact support. I’d imagine even as a “non-techy”, you’re unlikely to need help getting set up. Then again, you’re probably not reading a review for a 350 router..
Lastly, for what it’s worth, my ISP is Virgin Media and I’m using the AX6000 with the Super Hub 3 working as the modem.
Frankly, it’s an absolute steal.