ASUS - TUF Gaming AX3000 V2 (TUF-AX3000 V2)

Why not ASUS TUF- AX3000 v2? Have One and i love it

Just bought asus ax3000 v2 tuf gaming for 75eur did I get scammed?

I had smooth experience with Asus AX56U, Asus TUF AX3000V2, Asus RT-AXE7800, all bought used. Note that in the last year I had Q3, the 5GHz wifi ran much smoother than 6Ghz and I have tried different routers with no change. So I cannot recommend a Wifi 6E router for Q3.

Asus tuf ax3000v2 runs very good as dedicated router. It has 2.5gig Ethernet and can run 160mhz channels (2401mbits). Its pretty easy to get one used. I had three Asus routers and its the only brand that worked great for pcvr. Ton of settings in the firmware. If you can find it cheaper then AX56U was running great too.

I am running AXE7800 now, but 6ghz never runs as smooth as 5ghz for me (since Q3 launched), even on other routers, only rarely after some meta updates. Moved the AX3000 to serve as main household router and basically forgot it exists. They are awesome for the price, the axe7800 basically didn't improve anything for me.

Asus Axe7800 or Asus tuf ax3000v2 runs great. 500-800mbits h264 wasnt a problem (depends more on quest firmware version). Just some of my observations, it doesn't matter if you run 6ghz, 2400mbps, 2.5gig or 5ghz, 1200mbls, 1gig. It runs the same it's a stream. On the contrary 6ghz usually runs little bit worse.

You basically got the equivalent of an AX3000 router (2x2 on 2.4GHz + 2x2 on 5GHz). I do think you got shafted depending on what they would have provided without the extra £50 but the ISP is not completely lying. The TUF AX6000 was £180 back in April 2024, but it's not been available for a while now. The TUF BE3600 is £140 today (£130 on Amazon) but if you don't have Wi-Fi 7 devices it'll perform basically the same as a £105 TUF AX3000. The issue is that ASUS doesn't have anything in between £130 and £230 for Wi-Fi 7 (from what I can see) and the ISPs as of recently have been avoiding China made routers so other cheaper brands are out of question. You will likely not notice any speed difference on a single device but with multiple devices using internet at the same time, the AX6000 routers will likely perform better especially if you got a gigabit connection and older Wi-Fi 5 devices in the mix which get their speed from MIMO mainly. With 4x4 MIMO like on AX6000 it would support more devices. There's probably not much difference in range though. If you don't care about transferring files locally or wireless VR capabilities then it likely doesn't matter.

You basically got the equivalent of an AX3000 router (2x2 on 2.4GHz + 2x2 on 5GHz). I do think you got shafted depending on what they would have provided without the extra £50 but the ISP is not completely lying. The TUF AX6000 was £180 back in April 2024, but it's not been available for a while now. The TUF BE3600 is £140 today (£130 on Amazon) but if you don't have Wi-Fi 7 devices it'll perform basically the same as a £105 TUF AX3000. The issue is that ASUS doesn't have anything in between £130 and £230 for Wi-Fi 7 (from what I can see) and the ISPs as of recently have been avoiding China made routers so other cheaper brands are out of question. You will likely not notice any speed difference on a single device but with multiple devices using internet at the same time, the AX6000 routers will likely perform better especially if you got a gigabit connection and older Wi-Fi 5 devices in the mix which get their speed from MIMO mainly. With 4x4 MIMO like on AX6000 it would support more devices. There's probably not much difference in range though. If you don't care about transferring files locally or wireless VR capabilities then it likely doesn't matter.

I have 2 x ASUS GT AX-6000 picked up from Amazon for $399ea. This replaced the 1 x TUF AX3000 and 2 x TUF AX5400 I previously had. My advice would be: Get a wifi router with high CPU performance Dual band or triband router At least 1GB system memory Inbuilt security Mesh expandability Reason for this is to handle the numerous amounts of wireless devices there area these days. Asus are the benchmark for wifi routers in today's market. Their software is hands down the best as well. I wouldn't worry too much about wifi 7 etc as no device barely support it. Hell we have just began to 90% utilise WiFi6. I have a 1000/50 connection at home with NAS and Cat6a wiring. I can tell you WiFi6 is plenty unless you are the 1% who require ultra uber fast wifi to download 10TB of stuff a week.

Same here. I bought the Asus tuf ax3000 v2 for vr stream to my quest 3 and it was great. It’s now being used as part of an Asus Ai mesh network and it’s great for that too. I use a dedicated 6ghz band off my main router for the quest now.

I have the ax3000 and it’s fine. The only thing I wish it had natively was port mirroring. I never use the mesh or security insights etc. I do like that you can set up a guest network with timed access for when we have friends over. Another device with custom firmware and a laptop dedicated to network monitoring helped solve other concerns

AImesh can do the job, but it will do it much better with wired backhaul if you can, especially because the AX3000 is only 2x2 dual band and has no dedicated radio for meshing, so if you mesh wirelessly, you end up halving the 5GHz bandwidth.

Both AX86U and AX3000 have 2 radios: a 2.4GHz one and a 5GHz one There can't be a dedicated channel for mesh becaue there is no extra radio for mesh communication. AX86U does 4X4 MIMO on 5GHz instead of 2x2, so its radio can beamform a 3dB stronger signal to the AX3000, which helps with the bandwidth, especially in case of otherwise weak connection between the 2 devices. Still, every 5GHz device in this case is broadcasting on the same channel, so every client connected to the AX3000 will have at best half the bandwidth available, because of its data having to be repeated on the same 5GHz channel to the AX86U.

Gotta be the tried and true asus ax3000. I’ve had mine for 5ish years now and it’s a tank. I left Netgear due to puma chipset connection-drop issues. The next step imo is OPNSense on a mini pc. Edit: forgot to add - for modems, whatever you do, do NOT get a modem with a puma chipset. Research the firmware issue for more detail, but lots of packet loss and dropped connections baked into it.

Just upgraded to 1gig with spectrum and they threw one in for free, so i'm selling my Asus AX3000. DM if you're interested.