We and our partners use cookies to give you the best online experience, including to personalise advertising and content. Data about your interaction with this site and the ads shown to you may be shared with companies involved in the delivery and/or personalisation of ads on this site and elsewhere online.

Asus RT-AC1200

PRO rating
How it works?
How it works?
  1. User ratingsUser ratingsratings of product added by Productz users
  2. Expert ratingsExpert ratingsexperts ratings from editorial reviews
  3. Consumer ratingsConsumer ratingsratings from the biggest online stores worldwide
Legend
  1. Excellent
  2. Good
  3. Poor
  4. Average
4.0
based on all reviews
User ratings:
68
3.6 out of 5
68 user ratings
5 stars
29 %
4 stars
27 %
3 stars
26 %
2 stars
8 %
1 stars
7 %
Consumer ratings:
4.2 / 5
Editorial reviews:
1
  1. See more
1 editorial reviews
While the ASUS RT-AC68U (AC1900) WiFi router is one of the easier to use models that we have tested, its performance in all of our other tests...Read more
Read editorial reviews

Pros

  • Setting up this router is rather easy and painless
  • The user interface is simple
  • powerful and stable

Cons

  • Wireless devices are not heavy users
  • still lag and sometimes DC
  • only doing slightly worse than average

Key specs

  • 4
  • 1
  • yes
  • no
  • yes
  • yes

Compare technical data of the product to its category

Asus

Asus RT-AC1200 - Pros & Cons

Asus RT-AC1200

Pros

  • Setting up this router is rather easy and painless
  • The user interface is simple
  • powerful and stable
  • It comes with a good amount of value added features as well
  • The router is compatible with Asus Router mobile application as well
  • most reliable and stable in the consumer router industry
  • it offers is the best among the routers at this range as well
  • The firmware is great
  • performance is decent and it is stable
  • an intuitive settings interface and is easy to use
  • The interface is also really easy to understand and use

Cons

  • Wireless devices are not heavy users
  • still lag and sometimes DC
  • only doing slightly worse than average
  • not every device will have the internet cut off at certain times or censored
  • No cherry-picked units sent by manufacturers
  • WiFi routers
  • did exceptionally poorly in the line of sight test at a moderate distance
  • 4GHz frequency band is prone to instability and latency periods

Asus RT-AC1200 - Technical Overview

PoorAverageGoodExcellent
IconNumber of WAN ports
1
Best:
Cisco MWR 2941-DC
Number of WAN ports: 16
IconTotal wireless data transfer rate
1167 Mbps
Best:
TP-Link Talon AD7200
Total wireless data transfer rate: 7133 Mbps
IconNumber of LAN ports
4
Best:
Cisco CISCO7206VXR
Number of LAN ports: 60

Asus - Video Reviews (9)

powered byYouTube

Asus RT-AC1200 - Full Specifications

Icon
Connectivity
Connectivity technology
  • Wireless
  • Wired
Number of LAN ports4
Number of WAN ports1
USByes
Total USB ports1
Number of USB 2.0 ports1
Number of USB 3.0/3.1 ports0
Number of USB 3.1 ports0
Icon
Dimensions
Width7.56 in
Height1.18 in
Depth4.92 in
Weight0.66 lb
Number of units1
Rack-mount designno
Icon
Communication
Frequency band
  • 2.4 GHz
  • 5 GHz
Management interfaceSNMP
6to4no
Communication protocol
  • IPv6
  • Wireless Multimedia Extensions
Network / transport Protocol
  • NTP
  • DHCP
  • DDNS
Data link layer
  • Ethernet
  • Fast Ethernet
  • IEEE 802.11a
  • IEEE 802.11ac
  • IEEE 802.11b
  • IEEE 802.11g
  • IEEE 802.11n
Wireless standards
  • IEEE 802.11a
  • IEEE 802.11b
  • IEEE 802.11g
  • IEEE 802.3u
  • IEEE 802.11n
Jumbo frames supportno
Mobile broadband supportno
Throughput WAN-LAN100.0 Mbps
VoIP (SIP)no
Wireless networkyes
2.4GHz wireless networkyes
2.4GHz data transfer rate300.0 Mbps
5GHz wireless networkyes
5GHz data transfer rate867.0 Mbps
External antennayes
Detachable antennano
MIMOyes
Number of antennas4
Total wireless data transfer rate1167.0 Mbps
Wireless security
  • WEP
  • WPA-Enterprise
  • WPA-PSK
  • WPA
  • WPA2-Enterprise
  • WPA2-PSK
  • WPA2
  • WPS
Icon
Memory
Included flash memory16.0 MB
Maximum flash memory16.0 MB
Included RAM64.0 MB
Maximum RAM64.0 MB
Icon
Design
Colour of productBlack
Active cooling (fan)no
Icon
Features
Built-in DSL modemno
File serverVia USB
Built-in printer serveryes
Icon
Compatibility
DynDNSyes
Routing protocol
  • IGMPv2
  • IGMP
  • IGMPv3
Target audienceHome users
Icon
Security
DMZyes
Encryption Algorithm
  • 128-bit WEP
  • 64-bit WEP
  • WPA-PSK
  • WPA2-PSK
  • WPA-Enterprise
  • WPA2-Enterprise

Asus RT-AC1200 - Q&A

  • Do you have a question about the product?

Asus RT-AC1200 Asus - Editorial Reviews (1)

Other Routers