For high-speed wireless connectivity, Asus RT-AC5300 is used as the wireless Router. This Router allows different types of devices to be connected like Smart Television, Smart Phones, and wireless printers. The minimum requirement for setting up this router connection requires Central Processing Unit (CPU) with Intel Core Duo P8700 (3 GHz or above), system memory of 4 GB, a Hard disk of 64 GB, and a Network Adapter of 100 / 1000 M. This article guides you through the setting up of Asus Rt-AC5300 Router connected to your Desktop/ Laptop/Smartphone in the following sections.

Asus RT-AC5300 Router setup

Step 1: Log in

Switch on the Router and from port#1 of the Router connects either Laptop or Desktop. Sometimes you will have to assign a manual IP address ranging from 192.168.1.10 / 255.255.255.0 in the Laptop or desktop network card. The using the router-id, type in the web-browser, for example,http://192.168.1.1. After this, you need to provide the default username and password and log into the Router webpage. After login, you can give some name to the wireless network with a strong password. After this step, the WAN port should be given the modem connection.

Step 2: Network map

After login, you can see all the wifi settings. Under System, chose 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz, and 5 GHz-2, which is available on the right side.

Step 3: Change wifi settings

1. The next step is to make some changes in the Asus RT-AC5300 Router wifi settings. In the box named Network Name (SSID), enter the name for your network. The name should be unique and avoid using Router specific names.

2. After changing the wireless network name, under the Authentication Method, choose WPA2-Personal. This assures of string and safe access to the home networks.

3. The next step is, change the WPA Encryption to AES.

4. The final step is setting the WPA PSK key. This is like a password to your network. It is always best to choose a strong password, consisting of numerals, Special symbols, and Alphabets of Upper and Lower case combinations. There should be at least 14 characters to set the password.

While changing the wifi settings, you might be encountering some problems. After making these setting changes, the already connected devices to the device has to be reconnected again, and they should be done at the device itself and not on the computer or Laptop.

Upon installing this Router, you will be to play online games with a high graphic interface without any lags, or you can watch your video, which may be of size 4k. This Router also comes with options of various types of consoles like Wii, Playstation4, Xbox One, PS4 Pro, Playstation3, and lots more. With this Router, any number of devices can be connected, where there will not be any lags in the network speed of any connected devices. To encourage smart home features, this Router also supports thermostats, IP cameras, and other types of smart devices. The Router offers the fastest upload and download speeds of 100 Mbps.

Thus this article has given a deep insight into how to set up the Asus router and various features offered by the Router at routerasus.net