Testing and Results

In order to test the RT-AC56U we will be performing the same Passmark and Tutusoft LAN Speed Tests used on the MyNet AC1300. Both test will be run to test the routers wired connection, Wireless AC band and Wireless N band potential and will be run for 5 minute durations in each iteration. The Passmark test is the more strenuous of the two but this time around our test computer had no SSD.

First we will look at our wired connection tests as those are going to be far and away the fastest connections. Taking into account the read/write times of a standard HDD the Passmark tests don’t appear to be too terrible and when we take the hard drive out of the equation during the Tutusoft LAN speed Test we see the expected jump towards Gigabit average speeds.

Next it is on to the Wireless N band tests. Both of these tests were conducted using the client PC connected directly to the router using a wired connection and the server PC connecting wirelessly to the RT-AC56U using the ASUS USB-AC56 dongle suggested on the rear of the packaging. There are very little differences between the two test’s results and this speeds are about what we should expect from a wireless N connection.

Now for what we have all been waiting for, the Wireless AC band results. The two tests were run in the same fashion using the suggested USB-AC56 dongle and a wired client computer. The gains experienced in the Passmark test are substantial and when hard drive speed is taken out of the equation we see a massive spike in speeds during the LAN speed test. This spike looked so anomalous at first that we ran this particular test two more times and what you see is the third such test. Without factoring hard drive read/write speeds into the equation the Wireless AC band amazingly reaches near wired connection speeds.

Included are comparison graphs across each iteration of testing.