Gryphon AX – Ultra-Fast Mesh WiFi 6 Parental Control Router 2-Pack – Advanced Content Filters and Next-Gen Firewall - 4.3 Gbps Across 3,000 sq. ft. per Router for Multi-Device Households

This functional and reliable Gryphon router has been a breath of fresh air over the last year, especially after we suffered with another brand of parental controls router for several years and all its many problems. I really like the customizable parental controls & blocking by user, device, time, etc. in the App. It also provides an additional layer of Malware blocking before it gets to your devices, and even allows blocking of all traffic from several bad-actor countries! The control app is very helpful, and not a buggy nightmare to use. Tech support has been very responsive and helpful. We have a large house, and my phone gets better signal throughout because this router has antenna vectoring and can be set up to prioritize the signal level for up to 3 devices. The cost of this router was initially more than we wanted to pay, but I can say now that it’s worth the money to help protect our family and devices against irreparable harm.

Gryphon AX is an outstanding mesh router and the premium protection service is terrific, but honestly the best thing about Gryphon is the customer support. If you have a question or an issue, you actually interact with someone who will respond to you and follow up to make sure everything is good to go. It’s the polar opposite of what most companies do, and it’s why I’ve purchased four Gryphon AXs for myself and family.

I'm sure that this is probably a nice router once you get it set up. The problem is that you have to set it up using a mobile app -- I was not aware of this. There are a number of things that I like to do using a mobile app, but managing all the functions on my router is not one of them. Their reasoning is that it is inherently unsafe to have a web interface to access the router, which may be true, but there are other down sides. One issue is that you need a reasonably strong mobile signal in the space where you set up the device; unfortunately, that is not a given in my basement -- thanks a lot AT&T. I eventually got it to sync up and was able to connect, but everything else that I need to do, I have to do on the smallest screen that I own using my fat fingers on the tiny buttons. The app was not great either. I had to inexplicably restart the router a couple of times beause it showed on my phone that it was offline even when I had an Internet connection on my phone. The app only has a 3.1 star rating on the play store, I didn't read the other issues people had, but apparently there were some. One last thing that seems small, but I'm going to put it out there. This thing comes with a grippy, rubbery finish on the outside of it. My experience is that within a year or two, this coating will degrade and will come off on your hands or whatever else touches it. I don't have to touch my router a lot, so maybe this isn't a huge deal, but it's unneccessary, and it has to cost more to coat the ABS outer shell of the device with that stuff. The spot where I tried to set this up was dusty, so now it is white with black finger prints all over it that don't come off that rubbery coating.

We bought a Gryphon Tower in 2020, and our wifi coverage has been awful in the house. To try to "improve" this, we bought 3 Gryphon mesh guardian units in 2022 and 2023. I don't think they did much to help, but maybe the placebo effect made me feel a bit better. I don't know why Gryphon still sells either of those products, as they are old technology with poor signal and very low speeds. The Tower and Guardians in our house would periodically drop wifi speeds from the 200 Mb+ we get from cable down to 5 Mbps, sometimes less. Websites wouldn't load, lots of frustration in the family. We just purchased and setup a Gryphon AX Wifi6 and removed the Tower and Guardians. The AX covers the entire house at speeds near our Internet Service Provider's wired speed. It's a huge improvement. It ACTUALLY WORKS now. Installation was a pain, because we were upgrading from older gryphon units. I had to remove the tower and guardians from my gryphon account, then setup the AX in the app on my phone. Pro Tip - Gryphon prints the QR code so small that we couldn't scan it with my phone (which has an excellent camera). Instead, we took a picture of the QR code on another phone, zoomed in to increase it's size, and then used my phone to scan the QR code off the other phone's screen. Really, they ought to just print the label larger, but oh well. Once it was setup in the app, everything was relatively simple to configure if you know how to find MAC addresses on all the devices that connect to the internet in your house... It would be much nicer if Gryphon could tell if a device is a computer, ipad, phone, etc, but it can't, so you have to look up MAC addresses and match them to all the "unknown devices" in the Gryphon app. Tech support was nonexistent. Tried chat and phone call, no response, no call back.

I recently upgraded my router from Gryphon first-gen router to their AX router and am happy with network coverage and performance across the entire house [ ~2000 sqft ]. It also provides network coverage to security cameras outside of my home on all sides, which was a pain before. After taking advantage of all the features from the router, I would like to emphasize three significant attributes. Basics: I bought the router and was able to get it in less than a week, thanks to amazon and Gryphon. Thanks to the Gryphon team's new application, the installation was a straightforward process, which provided intuitive features such as speed tests, parental controls, and security scans. I wish to have more features to minimize the transition between screens for adding devices to a personal profile, but this is just a wishlist, and I have raised it with the Gryphon team. review: 5/5 Network Performance: My wife and I are busy attending zoom and hangout sessions with colleagues in our home, and the kids are busy attending classes from home. I don't recall any instance where I had to restart my router or complaints from my kid or wife mentioning wifi not working. I even tested speed tests from various corners of my home and attached screenshots from web page-based and mobile applications. In most scenarios, I received downlink speeds of about 375 - 500mbps across the house using my iPhone, but with closed doors and running a test from the farthest corner of my house, I received about 40mbps though my experience didn't affect. review: 4.5/5 Parental and Security: With young kids at home, this has been a concern all the time, but with filters and security port scan features from Gryphon, it was effortless and seamless. I cannot reveal the brand name, but one of the security cameras I had had open ports showing its vulnerability, and my router was able to point out [ Sharing the screenshot ]. Also, malware detection has pointed out the websites and devices showcasing these websites [ attached screenshot of malware information ]. I recommend anyone to use this router for the sake of family safety. review: 5/5

I am wondering if there is something wrong with my Gryphon router. It is PAINFULLY slow! I LOVE the parental controls built in... the filtering... the ease of pausing the internet when my kids don't do their chores. I bought a different one that I THOUGHT would be easy to pause/start... but when I did that, I had to re-enter everything when I restarted the internet... so I truly love the pause feature they have. BUT, that router was a million times faster than this one. I run a couple of home businesses and I'm a teacher. I LIVE on my computer. I have my two computers and my phone "prioritized" and no filtering restrictions and I still can't get to ½ the pages I try to get to without timing out. It's super slow for everyone, but I'm just pointing out that it's even slow on mine - being prioritized. Any advise would be appreciated. I spend a ton of money per month for fast internet because I'm a nerd, and I need it for all of my jobs... but you'd think I was on dial up with this router. I sent this email to customer support with no response. Hopefully they read their reviews because I CANNOT recommend a product that slows my internet down to basically dial-up speed!

Definitely met our needs and is a true internet filter of all devices in and out of the house EXCEPT laptops. I gave one to a friend and bought another one and then returned it borrowing theirs instead since their first child is a newborn. So I hope that did not cause the reason for Amazon showing it as a item that is returned often because I would be sad to cause any parent to NOT have an internet filter in their home for their children because my return caused that message to pop up. You do need your own smartphone to manage the app that controls the filtering. Customer service is readily available. I chatted with them several times until I understood the ins and outs of using the mobile app and even getting the router connected. Before connecting the Gryphon router, take a picture of the bottom of the router where the MAC number and QR code are because you will need those later. When first connecting the router, be patient. You have to follow the instructions exactly. I think what I did wrong was in not following the precise order of connecting certain cables to connect the Gryphon router to the modem before plugging it into the electrical outlet. Definitely worth the purchase.

I have used this product for 3 weeks and I really hoped this would be a great solution to my filtering issues. I have several children with multiple ipads, computers, and devices. Up to 20 devices. I bought two to use as a repeater. Unfortunitally it has too many glitchs and I had to return it. Pros - customer service is excellent and responsive and you can get in contact with them via the app but at the end it was too much trouble to keep troubleshooting with them. Cons - the devices do not work as intended seemlessly. The intial set up did not work as the qr code on the bottom was too small to scan. There was no other way to enter it manually. After extensively contacting customer service and several hours I was finally able to get the devices to recognize my modem, the repeater and obtain internet connection. I set up several devices, however, then issues started. Every time the internet was suspended the devices would not work again unless you removed the devices from the app and had them reconnect . The MAC address would reset and none of the devices worked. My children easily were able to get around the system by changing their MAC address and then the entire protection stopped working. Anything hardwired stopped working since the DCHP was reset and none of the website tracking worked since it constantly had to keep being removed every time the system was suspended. The entire feature of suspending the internet became a big issue. Also the feature blocking specific apps and games such as Fortnite did not always work and my children were able to continue to play for hours after the service was suspended if they kept the screen open. I really wanted this to work as it has features no other router has, but as it is it was too glitchy for me to use. If you have limited needs or less tech savvy children this might be solution, but for older teens who are looking to bypass and the need to suspend wired and wireless devices seemlessly this was not working for me.