TP-LINK AX55 PRO (Review)
Hello,
First of all, i'm new. This is my experience with the product.
Digi Romania (bridge mode)/1 Gbps/OnePlus 12R.
PROS:
- Good coverage (3-room apartment, concrete walls, router located in the middle),
- 160 Mhz support (If you live in a block of flats or residential area i recommend 80 Mhz),
- DNS Privacy: DoT and DoH (I haven't tested),
- Small bufferbloat on 160 Mhz but less interference on 80 Mhz.
CONS/HIDDEN SETTINGS:
- ROAMING ASSISTANT (Signal strength hidden, i recommend -76 dbm maximum instead of -74 default),
- BEAMFORMING (Marketing or hidden, cannot be modified according to needs. Preferably: Explicit On and Universal Off),
- SHORT GI (Probably enabled and hidden),
- Tx Bursting (Probably enabled and hidden for Browsing only, cannot be modified according to needs. Affects online FPS games when ON),
- 1024-QAM (Probably enabled and hidden for Browsing only, cannot be modified according to needs. Affects online FPS games when ON),
- NAT BOOST (Surely enabled and hidden for Browsing only, cannot be modified according to needs. May affects online FPS games when ON),
- OFDMA loses between 100 and 150 mbps when ON (This setting should be available for 5 GHz only, not general. It is not even specified what type of OFDMA it is: DL Only, UL Only, DL+UL - like Asus routers).
BUG:
- Advanced - Internet - Advanced Settings: Primary DNS and Secondary DNS - cannot combine two different DNS. Always reads the first one. I use Asus AX59U with Openwrt, system detect both, but only uses the one with the lowest ping.
RECOMMENDATION:
- Advanced - Internet: Uncheck RX/TX Flow Control,
- Advanced - LAN: Uncheck RX/TX Flow Control,
- Advanced - IPTV/VLAN: IGMP Off completely (Snooping ON - if you have surveillance cameras),
- Advanced - DHCP Server: Lease Time 360 minutes (6H) or 1440 minutes (24H),
- Advanced - Wireless Settings: OFDMA On (Test) or Off (if you have lag, desync, disconnections),
- Advanced - Wireless Settings: TWT Off,
- Advanced - Wireless Settings: Smart Connect Off,
- Advanced - Wireless Settings: Password WPA2-PSK(AES) on both 2.4 and 5 ghz,
- Advanced - Wireless Settings: WPS Off,
- Advanced - Wireless - Additional Settings: AP Isolation Off,
- Advanced - Wireless - Additional Settings: Airtime Fairness - On (divides the wifi transmission time equally) or Off (if you have lag, desync, disconnections).
I would have liked these setting to be separate for both bands, not general,
- Advanced - Wireless - Additional Settings: DTIM 1 (FPS online games) or 2 (Browsing/Netflix/Youtube),
- Advanced - Wireless - Additional Settings: Group Key Update Period 0 or 86400 (FPS online games/Streaming),
- Advanced - NAT Forwarding - UPnP: Off,
- Advanced - Security - ALG: IPSec On (if you use vpn from work) or Off all,
- Advanced - IPv6: Disabled (FPS online games), Enabled (Browsing/Netflix/Youtube),
- Advanced - EasyMesh: Off (If you don't have mesh at home),
- Advanced - System - Firmware Update: Off (If you have problems with the electrical network. You can also check manually from time to time),
- Advanced - System - Time: time. cloudflare. com / time. google. com,
- Advanced - System - Reboot: Reboot Schedule: On/Every Day (I set 6:01),
- Advanced - System - Authorize Third-Party Services: Off
- Advanced - System - About: Off
5 Ghz/160Mhz values - 700 Mbps (in another room), 750 Mbps (in the room with the router), 800 Mbps (near the router).
Compared to Orange Romania, Digi Romania loses between 100 and 150 Mbps due to the PPPoE connection.
