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

This item is a must have for parents with children who use the internet. It allows the parents to control what can be accessed and it stops a great deal of negative behavior. Great item we love it.

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'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.

This is a game changer if you have kids. You can Control their access all the way down to the app or website. I keep my grandkids suspended from internet from 9 pm to 9 am. No sneaking on devices. It is also a miraculous at security protection from malware and bugs for all your devices. It does not let anything dangerous on your network. Just make sure you buy a good modem That can handle 6G because we will be there soon. My internet carrier wasn't trained in connecting modems and separate routers so it.took a while to get it up. If your modem shows the right color as on connect the router. You cant access just a modem. Lack of training on my services side but its fast and reliable now. Sneaky kids got on my phone and changed their access to unlimited which I would have never thought they could do but there are ways around that beside keeping my phone locked.

The router was easy to set up, and it seems to be fast. The app isn't great, setting up screen time limits often freezes. Alerts stay for days, even though they've been taken care of. I always get a "what's new" screen, even though the features are from a major update over six months ago. It's frustrating to use the app, but it can be stumbled through. Homebound is where you run into major problems, which I won't go into here, but be prepared for utter frustration when you use it. We decided it wasn't worth the trouble so we quit paying for it, which also denies us updates to other security features. Random website blocking is the most annoying. I have my account at adult 18+, with only explicit filters on. But Gryphon blocks unnecessary websites: tonight it was whyiloveamerica.com. A perusal of the sight shows nothing objectional, unless.... you hate America. I haven't kept track of the others it's blocked for no good reason, but I should have. This one is the most ridiculous though.

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.

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.

The router has an easy setup with good tech support. The profile setup for children were easy to setup bedtimes, content restrictions, and maximum daily screen times. I did have to use their tech support a couple times to sort out odd quirks I had with the Android app and screen time scheduling. We are currently working with their support to sort out a recent firmware update which maybe causing reduced performance. Not definitive as this could also be my Internet provider too.

Great product. Has a lot of flexibility in changing settings and the parental controls work well.

Router is so slow that's it unusable, I expected much better for the price. It does seem to do a good job blocking adult websites but is painfully slow.

One of the challenges with parental controls is getting something that os easy to manage. Gryphons interface handles this very well. It seems to get the perfect balance between flexibility and ease of management. I was a little hesitant with only being able to select from a few scheduling options but the way it is implemented is extremely intuitive and is well beyond my expectations. I would highly recommend this router for anyone looking for something that focuses on parental controls.

Review Update: Shortly after my initial review a representative of Gryphon reached out to me and setup a phone call to discuss the issues I experienced. Not once during this call, nor subsequent calls, did they even hint at changing my review - which I was expecting them to do. Because they didn't push a review update, I took my time re-reviewing the product and here is my update. The unit I received did not want to register with my account, I couldn't explain why however the team at Gryphon manually added the device to my account and it started working correctly shortly after (it did take them some time to figure it out). Once working, I will admit their software is quite enjoyable. I am using it as a secondary network and adding devices now and then to test it's functionality and comparisons between networks. As far as features vs other routers is concerned, this one is definitely more robust for safety and security. You don't need to understand much about networking, yet you can still keep your family safer. With the built in school level configuration for kids, takes the guess work out of what you need to block for their age ranges. The malware detection, I tested by going to some shady sites and confirmed it does work - and it works fast! User profiles are easy to configure, adding devices specifically to each profile allows you to not worry about who's doing what. The app notifications when someone wants on the network is a great feature that I haven't seen in many other products. The speed difference is actually noticeable in some situations where large amounts of loadings are happening on a page or service. Doing a speed test between other networks, with comparable ratings, shows it to be roughly the same speed (slightly higher but negligible). The signal strength is strong though, strong enough to get service several houses down the street when outside. Currently the only issue I have is that from time to time it seems to drop packets, or lose connectivity - I can't confirm if it's 100% the device or the external provider. I'm leaning towards the device, but I cannot confirm. I was really hoping to give this a deep, in-depth review. Unfortunately, a couple months of trying - I could not get this device to work. While it's a great concept, even a good looking product with big promises - there was no delivery. There is no way to connect to the device and trouble shoot or configure it. The mobile app is the only means of setup - unfortunately once it throws an error there is no way to get useful support, no explanation for why it won't work, no faq and no troubleshooting steps. Simply, it won't work. Could this be due to my network setup? Sure.. however, connecting it directly to my router, bypassing everything else in the network - it still doesn't function. Hopefully they learn from all of the reviews on here and introduce a web based configuration tool so that we can connect from a desktop and figure out what's wrong/setup the device.