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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 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.
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.
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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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.