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

[MrMissingHub]

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/ 

[svander1]

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?

[MrMissingHub]

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.

[svander1]

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.