ASUS BRT-AC828 (HW Ver: 1) Dual-Band AC2600
Qualcomm Atheros QCA9984 Radio AC2600 : 2.4GHz~800Mbps + 5Hz~1733Mbps
Quad Antenna MU-MIMO 4x4:4 Quad-Stream ~Wave2
Qualcomm IPQ8065 CPU 1.7 GHz (2 cores) 128/512MB Flash/RAM size
Dual-WAN : Fail-Over / Load-Balance
Gigabit Ports : 2xWAN / 8xLAN
Storage :M.2 Slot / 2xUSB3
Unboxing, look & feel stock firmware quick walkthrough video below
Thanks ASUS Malaysia/Taiwan for the first business router, which was handed over to me early this year before CNY, sorry for taking so long to review
Product Photo
Product information & reference:
- Official Product Info
- Firmware download
- WikiDevi - Product Tech Spec
- Review by Digital Citizen ~ Mar'2017
- Review by CHIP Malaysia ~ Mar'2017
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A cool looking black squarish device with not-so-aggresive outlook, surface design with the " > < " shape (X-men?!) complete with some small diamond-shape emboss around it, a clean yet unique looking router . It's relatively sizeable weight about 1kg, the 8 LANports and the product name reminds me of RT-AC88 :
Both device indeed use the same adapter.
ASUS is serious about making a router for SME business, which see some really interesting features on this BRT-AC828 :
- Dual WAN - 2 physical WAN ports able to configure either Fail-over or Load-Balance mode
- 8 LAN ports able to do port-base vlan tagging and teaming
- Loads of features, useful router and network protection software
- First router with internal M.2 storage (42/60/80mm)
- Slightly newer kernel - 3.4.103 on current FW3.0.0.4.380_6947
(See above video for firmware features quick walkthrough)
ASUS also address the antenna falling-down issue by designing a clip-on-lock on each antenna to prevent it from falling-down again, nice consideration
Some of my testings as follow ...
Dual WAN Test
Wireless Performance & M.2 Write/Read Tests
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