ASUS RT-AX88U Pro (AX6000) Dual Band

TL; DR: After a couple days of service we're happy with this router's ease of installation/setup & performance so far. Details: This was purchased as our old router (a 2018 ASUS GT-AC5300) was starting to lock up/fail randomly, and more computers in our house have 2.5G network ports, so the old one was becoming a bottleneck. Physical installation was simple, unplug/replug the ethernet cables from the old one into the new, the WAN port and 2.5G/1G ports are clearly labeled. We did take an extra few seconds to make sure the right ports were used for 2.5G-capable devices vs our media center setup on a 1G router (while it wouldn't affect function, no reason to waste the port until/unless we get a 2.5G capable switch in there). Depending on your ISP's top speed, you can configure this router to use a slower 2.5G port as the connection, and free up the 10G for use with a fast switch inside your home. The option's presented during initial setup, and not hard to find on the WAN page if you switch your network config/ISP service. Getting the router software configured was easily the hardest part, and it wasn't hard, but there were some surprises - things that may or may not make a difference for you, as we're a tech-heavy household. The default subnet for the router was 192.168.50.xxx, which caused some issues with our devices as they were in 192.168.1.xxx on the old system - I had to reboot one of the hardwired computers to get assigned a new IP, and find and configure the new router, Windows release/renew wasn't cutting it for some reason. Once that was done, we were able to change the subnet, configure the router for our ISP, and get online again within ~5 minutes. Windows 11 on our laptops saw the new Wifi name & noted that the new connection was more secure (supports WPA3 over WPA2, so that's nice). If you're an ASUS router user currently, you'll probably find the interface very familiar, they haven't changed the configuration UI significantly from the AC5300 I mentioned above. We host a couple of web services inside the house for external use, and configuring them into the new router was virtually identical to the last time the changes were made on the old one. One issue we've had with ASUS routers still holds true, their DDNS doesn't allow you to easily put your new router in and update to the old DDNS name, it's marked as reserved for a month, so we had to take a new one. We do appreciate the graphic portmap in the UI, showing exactly which ports are in use, if there were a hardware issue this would make it obvious if we had a system fail to connect.  While we haven't seen a big difference speed-wise, we also haven't replaced all the switches in our home with ones that would support the faster connection, so we weren't expecting to see the full benefit yet - but we can at least say it isn't worse.