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Asus DSL-AC88U

details: AC3100 Dual-Band ADSL/VDSL Gigabit Wi-Fi Router
hardware type: DSL Wireless Router
date added: 2017-02-19
updated: 2020-02-20
NitroQAM (1024-QAM) technology on the DSL-AC88U delivers a combined 3167 Mbps Wi-Fi speed, ensuring everyone on your network can enjoy smooth streaming and low-latency online gaming.

Delivering a total speed of up to 900Mbps, DSL-AC88U features the latest G.fast technology and ensures fast network speeds and smooth performance for all bandwidth-intensive tasks.

Advanced parental controls help you to prevent users from visiting inappropriate websites, for example keeping young children safe from viewing adult content. You can also restrict the times that each device can access the internet by applying scheduled time limits.

DSL-AC88U has multiple ways to connect to the internet, with a choice of DSL, Ethernet or 3G/4G LTE.

With a four-transmit, four-receive (4T4R) antenna design, both Wi-Fi range and signal stability improve dramatically. AiRadar beamforming further focuses Wi-Fi signal on your devices, making your Wi-Fi faster, clearer and stronger.

With built-in USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 ports, you can connect USB-enabled devices, such as external storage drives, printers, or a 3G/4G dongle to DSL-AC88U and share them conveniently with other users via Wi-Fi. And with USB 3.0, you can enjoy up to 10X faster data transfer speeds.
 
 
 
 DSL-AC88U Features
 General
 Availability: currently available
 Street price: $256
 LAN / WAN Connectivity
 WAN throughput: 900 Mbps
 WAN throughput upstream: 500 Mbps
 WAN ports: 1
one 10/100/1000Mbps WAN port; 2 USB ports for 3G/4G modems
 WAN port(s) type: DSL/ISDN/POTS connector (RJ-11)
 LAN ports: 4
 LAN ports type: Gigabit Ethernet (RJ-45)
 LAN ports auto cross-over: yes
 USB port(s): 2
one of the USB ports is USB 3.0 (for storage devices, printers and 3G/4G USB modems)
 USB port type: USB 2.0
 Auto-failover connection: yes
 Router
 NAT routing: yes
 Multihomed: yes
 Port forwarding: yes
 DHCP server: yes
 DHCP client: yes
 Dynamic DNS client: yes
 QoS: yes
 DSL
 DSL compliance: ADSL1 (G.dmt 992.1, G.lite 992.2, G.hs 994.1, DMT T1.413)
ADSL2 (G.992.3, G.lite.bis 992.4)
ADSL2+ (G.992.5)
VDSL (G.993.1)
VDSL2 (G.993.2)
G.fast (G.9700, G.9701)
 PPPoE client: yes
 PPPoA client: yes
 Wireless
 Maximum Wireless Speed: 3200 Mbps (Wi-Fi 5)
 WiFi standards supported: 802.11b (Wi-Fi 1)
802.11a (Wi-Fi 2)
802.11g (Wi-Fi 3)
802.11n (Wi-Fi 4)
802.11ac (Wi-Fi 5)
 Wifi security/authentication: WEP
WPA (TKIP)
WPA2 (AES)
802.1X (EAP-MD5/TLS/TTLS/PEAP)
Wireless MAC Address filtering
SSID Broadcast disable
 WiFi modes: Access point
 external antenna(s): 4
 ext antenna(s) removable ?: yes
 WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup): yes
 Beamforming: yes
 Dual Band (2.4GHz/5GHz): yes
 VPN
  L2TP
 L2TP client: yes
  PPTP
 PPTP server: yes
 PPTP client: yes
 PPTP passthrough: yes
 Device Management
 Administration: Web-based (LAN)
 Firmware upgradeable: yes
 Configuration backup/restore: yes
 Misc hardware info
 IPv6 support: yes
 Print Server: yes
 Links
 Product page: https://www.asus.com/Networking/DSL-AC88...
 Manual: https://dlcdnets.asus.com/pub/ASUS/wirel...

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