topic Re: Asus RT-AX52 as a 3rd Party Replacement Router for Sky WiFi Max Hub in Broadband

Asus RT-AX52 as a 3rd Party Replacement Router for Sky WiFi Max Hub

MrMissingHub — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 09:18:57 GMT

Long story short ... I recently moved from BT Fibre (900) to Sky Fibre (900) service "went live" on the 12th so plugged in the new Sky WiFi Max Hub (white version).

I soon realised that the Max Hub was not going to be suitable for my requirements after being told to use the mySky App for basic features such as Port Forwarding etc.

Decided to look for a no frills replacement and very happy to say that I picked up the Asus RT-AX52 (AX1800) for less than £55 on Amazon.co.uk brand new ... the best thing is this just worked out of the box for me. 😀

If anyone is in the same boat and wants a more traditional hands on experience of configuring their home network, you cannot go wrong with this device router at a great price!

https://www.asus.com/uk/networking-iot-servers/wifi-routers/asus-wifi-routers/rt-ax52/

Re: Asus RT-AX52 as a 3rd Party Replacement Router for Sky WiFi Max Hub

svander1 — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 11:54:29 GMT

Thanks for sharing. Do you have SKY Q (I have Q and wonder if this works with the multiple Qmini's I have?) or Glass or only using the wifi? When you said it just "worked out of the box", it was as simple as plug and play?

Re: Asus RT-AX52 as a 3rd Party Replacement Router for Sky WiFi Max Hub

MrMissingHub — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 10:45:52 GMT

No I don't have SKY Q sorry ... just SKY Glass which I connect over Ethernet.

In terms of the Router working out of the box, yes I literally didn't have do anything with the Router in terms of it connecting to Sky Fibre.

There has been a number of posts I saw on Sky Community Forums having to slightly configure the WAN section of the ASUS Router to get it working. i.e. setting it to Automatic IP type and then adding anything@skydsl|anything to the Client Identifier (Option 61)

In my case with the Asus RT-AX52 The WAN section out of the box was set to Automatic IP already and it just worked without adding Client Identifier.

Re: Asus RT-AX52 as a 3rd Party Replacement Router for Sky WiFi Max Hub

svander1 — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 14:57:03 GMT

Thanks for the recommendation, got one. I have sky Q and this has improved my WiFi reach and quality quite a lot. It even works with the multiple minis. So now i finally have WiFi 6. Great stuff and very easy to set up as it worked out of the box.

Re: Asus RT-AX52 as a 3rd Party Replacement Router for Sky WiFi Max Hub

Psyclepath — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 08:17:31 GMT

ithank you. i think the sky max hub is absolutely vile

Re: Asus RT-AX52 as a 3rd Party Replacement Router for Sky WiFi Max Hub

Psyclepath — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 22:57:12 GMT

this is exactly my problem thanks!

ps i think the sky max hub is a vile piece of equipment

Re: Asus RT-AX52 as a 3rd Party Replacement Router for Sky WiFi Max Hub

Chrisee — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 08:21:29 GMT

@Psyclepath there are 2 points Sky customers have to take into account when using a third party router first is you lose the voice line and secondly to get support for line issues Sky will require you to refit the Sky hub as their diagnostics require it.

Otherwise there are few issues.

Re: Asus RT-AX52 as a 3rd Party Replacement Router for Sky WiFi Max Hub

Psyclepath — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 11:04:03 GMT

i get that. thankfully i dont use a phone line. and i would rather not ask for help unless the net itself is down, the phone lines are a pain.

the max hub also doesnt allow control, you need to use an app on a modern phone to do even basic things with it. even then to get to what i would consider basic settings, they expect you to be on a premium tier.
the hub also keeps crashing, it doesnt get on well with my smart devices and i cant run my own diagnostics to fix it or change settings, or seporate the 2.5ghz aND 5 ghz band.
its coverage isnt very good either

i resent that the hub doesnt allow basic control without a premium package, and it will only allow interphase with an account and propriatry application

Re: Asus RT-AX52 as a 3rd Party Replacement Router for Sky WiFi Max Hub

maulwurf — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 21:18:25 GMT

I just bought one of these machines and can confirm that they also work in Ireland with Sky Fibre.

I have JUST installed this so can't say much about reliability / speed etc.

For Ireland the setup under Advanced Settings / WAN was

WAN connection type: PPPoE

user: anything@skydsl

password anything

And then you need to go to Advanced Settings / LAN > IPTV > LAN Port > Select ISP profile > Manual Setting > Internet VID 10 PRIO 0

Then click "Apply"

Re: Asus RT-AX52 as a 3rd Party Replacement Router for Sky WiFi Max Hub

JimM1 — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 21:31:11 GMT

@maulwurf When you setup the guest network, can you check what the IP assigned is and if it isolates from the main wireless?

Re: Asus RT-AX52 as a 3rd Party Replacement Router for Sky WiFi Max Hub

Michael+Dunlop — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 15:20:26 GMT

Thanks for the recommendation. Was having micro outages on the sky hub even after line repair and a new hub. So picked up the RT-AX52. Worked straight out of the box as promised. I was a bit worried that it would require configuration. That heightened when I saw a list of providers for configuration but no Sky. Skipped manual configuration and all worked. Really like the asus app as well.

Re: Asus RT-AX52 as a 3rd Party Replacement Router for Sky WiFi Max Hub

JimM1 — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 15:43:36 GMT

@Michael+Dunlop Take it that the WANoE adjustment on your sky Broadband Hub did nothing to help, welcome to the world of Asus!

Re: Asus RT-AX52 as a 3rd Party Replacement Router for Sky WiFi Max Hub

Michael+Dunlop — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 17:03:36 GMT

@JimM1 To be honest it did a bit so instead of several times an hour, it was down to a couple. So thank you. But new router as well did nothing, so went asus even though I have a DECO mesh.

Re: Asus RT-AX52 as a 3rd Party Replacement Router for Sky WiFi Max Hub

JimM1 — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 17:20:59 GMT

@Michael+Dunlop Thanks for the input regarding the sky Hub, did not want to say too much about your deco Mesh, have personally just found them poor, but only done two off them and Asus just eats them alive!

Up time since i last reset it all.

Asus running uptime

Re: Asus RT-AX52 as a 3rd Party Replacement Router for Sky WiFi Max Hub

maulwurf — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 17:25:09 GMT

Guest network: gateway: 192.168.100.1, devices 192.168.100.xxx

Standard network: gateway: 192.168.50.1, devices 192.168.50.xxx

Guest network devices cannot ping the gateway, only e.g. 8.8.8.8. I didn't test whether anything else could be pinged.

You can opt to have the guest network have "access" to the local intranet.

All this does is to change the device's IP from 192.168.100.xxx to 192.168.50.xxx, so separate login but same network.

I'm not a network expert. The standard "guest network" appears to be isolated. Happy to be corrected.

Re: Asus RT-AX52 as a 3rd Party Replacement Router for Sky WiFi Max Hub

JimM1 — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 17:29:52 GMT

@maulwurf You want it isolated so the user cannot mess with the Asus Router!

Re: Asus RT-AX52 as a 3rd Party Replacement Router for Sky WiFi Max Hub

maulwurf — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 10:43:18 GMT

@JimM1 connected to the guest network (192.168.100.*) on a laptop as the only user in the network:

nmap -sn 192.168.100.0/24
Starting Nmap 7.80 ( https://nmap.org ) at ...
Nmap done: 256 IP addresses (0 hosts up) scanned in 104.18 seconds

Looks OK 🙂