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03-22-2023 at 09:58 AM.
i tried this but didn't get any better at games Roll Eyes (Sarcastic)
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03-23-2023 at 11:22 AM.
Just a general question/thought. Aren't the days of Asus asking us pay $150-$500 for routers is over? Plenty of wifi 6 routers that are under $100 make sense for most households (gaming or not, big houses vs tiny houses, number of clients, Openwrt, etc.). Asus seems overpriced. It's upsetting that they sell 400-600 routers, which makes me want to double down on non-ASUS competitors. I want top-of-the-line routers but the pricing is out of control. Is this the best price/performance router or is there another? How about this one for example.
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Just a general question/thought. Aren't the days of Asus asking us pay $150-$500 for routers is over? Plenty of wifi 6 routers that are under $100 make sense for most households (gaming or not, big houses vs tiny houses, number of clients, Openwrt, etc.). Asus seems overpriced. It's upsetting that they sell 400-600 routers, which makes me want to double down on non-ASUS competitors. I want top-of-the-line routers but the pricing is out of control. Is this the best price/performance router or is there another? How about this one for example.

I agree with your sentiment but absolutely do not mess around with anything but Asus or Netgear in the home/consumer grade router market. TP-Link, Belkin/Linksys... other brands have absolutely horrendous firmware/software, the online "reviews" are mostly bought and paid for. Just as one personal example, I was using a TP-Link AX50 for a long time and could never get the full 1Gbps speed hardwired from my building (I never got more than 300Mbps over wire), I subconsciously assumed it was some long standing issue with the ISP, after I finally called and had them come by and check my wiring, I was getting full speed straight out of the wall the whole time--it turned out that the POS TP-Link had software issues that cut the speed down 1/3 and were never fixed (finally dug around enough online and found out about it in a random tech support forum). Also recently had a Linksys 9600/9610 that was awful at dropping connections (had to cancel a work meeting I was running early due to drops) and its firmware was full of weird bugs and errors, and it was extremely limited in what you could do to begin with.

At least with Asus, if you get a Merlin compatible model you have another source of firmware that has a 3rd party fixing bugs in it and whatnot, and those have been generally very solid for me and actually perform better than the factory releases. Some Netgear is OK in my experience, others are apparently really bad (their mesh stuff?) but anything else in consumer router world I wouldn't touch. Sad how bad the whole thing is really.
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Quote from whoopdaddy :
Just a general question/thought. Aren't the days of Asus asking us pay $150-$500 for routers is over? Plenty of wifi 6 routers that are under $100 make sense for most households (gaming or not, big houses vs tiny houses, number of clients, Openwrt, etc.). Asus seems overpriced. It's upsetting that they sell 400-600 routers, which makes me want to double down on non-ASUS competitors. I want top-of-the-line routers but the pricing is out of control. Is this the best price/performance router or is there another? How about this one for example.

I'm also curious about this. In the last 5 years I've been using a $80 Netgear r6700 with 30 devices without a problem. But their recent firmware is complete junk. You can't even login in anymore because the programmer created a infinite loop. I switched to ASUS Ac68u
last week with Merlin, so far so good. Not a single time drop. It costs me $35 to buy this T-MOBILE ac 86u.
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03-23-2023 at 12:09 PM.
It is true routers are overpriced but if I have to buy an overpriced router it will be an Asus. I would pass on this version and get the AX86U because it is a quad core processor. The AX86s is dual core and the same processor that's in the ac86u. The only real reason to buy a router of this caliber is if you're going to run a VPN on your router and use Merlin firmware. If you're not looking to have a VPN on your router then by all means buy something cheaper.
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I agree with your sentiment but absolutely do not mess around with anything but Asus or Netgear in the home/consumer grade router market. TP-Link, Belkin/Linksys... other brands have absolutely horrendous firmware/software, the online "reviews" are mostly bought and paid for. Just as one personal example, I was using a TP-Link AX50 for a long time and could never get the full 1Gbps speed hardwired from my building (I literally never got more than 300Mbps over wire), I subconsciously assumed it was some long standing issue with the ISP, after I finally called and had them come by and check my wiring, I was getting full speed straight out of the wall the whole time--it turned out that the POS TP-Link had software issues that literally cut the speed down 1/3 and were never fixed (finally dug around enough online and found out about it in a random tech support forum). Also recently had a Linksys 9600/9610 that was awful at dropping connections (literally had to cancel a work meeting I was running early due to drops) and its firmware was full of weird bugs and errors, and it was extremely limited in what you could do to begin with.

At least with Asus, if you get a Merlin compatible model you have another source of firmware that has a 3rd party fixing bugs in it and whatnot, and those have been generally very solid for me and actually perform better than the factory releases. Some Netgear is OK in my experience, others are apparently really bad (their mesh stuff?) but anything else in consumer router world I wouldn't touch. Sad how bad the whole thing is really.

I can totally related to your TP link story. I bought their Archer C4000 from Walmart when it's on sale for $60. It constantly drop my connection since day one. Beautiful look outside with a junk firmware inside. As to the router market, I think the US market should introduce more competition. It's like the EV market, Tesla is not always the best when comparing to outside competitors.
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03-23-2023 at 12:35 PM.
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So confused by this comment lol ^^^^

I need a new router for my fiber. Will this work that well? I was always told to with surfboards

Just got fiber last night. Also have this router and I haven't had any issues so far. My wife and kids are always connected with their devices and haven't received any complaints. It has only been one day though.