Alternative to WRT1900AC

[adibee]

Hi guys I just bought the WRT1900AC last week. For a week it went smooth and all my connections were pretty good. Few days ago I started having problems with it. The router has been stable (Devices dont loose connection) but I started noticing my online games started lagging. I had a Ea6700 before this and my roomate and I were able to game without any lags. But now when we start playing we would get lags . When I speedtest I see 45ms and 36Mbs and 18.86Mbs upseed (http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3648243054).

Now the main reason I went with WRT1900AC is that after going through numerous reviews it seemed like it was more stable than the others stock firmware. Also I liked the GUI and simplicity of the firmware. After talking to Linksys technical support I could not get any solution so I am returning the router I initially wanted to get an exchange but TigerDirect dont have it in stock :S. (MAybe mine was a defective?)

I was looking at the Nighthawk R7000 and the RT-AC68U. How does a RT-AC68U with Merlin compare to the R7000 with ddwrt? I also thought WRT1900AC was good for the usb 3.0 transfer speed as I was planning to hook up a flash drive and stream HD movies through my TV.

 

[Mordred]

I was looking at the Nighthawk R7000 and the RT-AC68U. How does a RT-AC68U with Merlin compare to the R7000 with ddwrt? I also thought WRT1900AC was good for the usb 3.0 transfer speed as I was planning to hook up a flash drive and stream HD movies through my TV.

R7000 on dd-wrt is probably right now the ultimate solution for home users.
100 % stable and full of features that you won't find in any other firmware.

RMerlin is basically the pimped asus oem firmware, it offers a few features asus doesn't have, but it in my opinion it doesn't come even close to dd-wrt on the R7000 or AC68U.

Only thing that dd-wrt lacks at the moment is good IPV6 support, but if you look at dd-wrt forum you will see that one of the devs is currently working on that.

 

[microchip]

R7000 on dd-wrt is probably right now the ultimate solution for home users.
100 % stable and full of features that you won't find in any other firmware.

RMerlin is basically the pimped asus oem firmware, it offers a few features asus doesn't have, but it in my opinion it doesn't come even close to dd-wrt on the R7000 or AC68U.

Only thing that dd-wrt lacks at the moment is good IPV6 support, but if you look at dd-wrt forum you will see that one of the devs is currently working on that.

RMerlin is not trying to come close to DD-WRT. He's just providing a custom ASUS FW with bugs fixed and a few things added. That's it. You can't compare his FW to DD-WRT

 

[adibee]

R7000 on dd-wrt is probably right now the ultimate solution for home users.
100 % stable and full of features that you won't find in any other firmware.

RMerlin is basically the pimped asus oem firmware, it offers a few features asus doesn't have, but it in my opinion it doesn't come even close to dd-wrt on the R7000 or AC68U.

Only thing that dd-wrt lacks at the moment is good IPV6 support, but if you look at dd-wrt forum you will see that one of the devs is currently working on that.

I looked at the RMerlin Fw and it looks pretty good for my needs. I had DDWRT in my older router I did not use all the feature of the DDWRT. But if the RMerlin brings stability to the router I would definitely try it out

 

[RogerSC]

I looked at the RMerlin Fw and it looks pretty good for my needs. I had DDWRT in my older router I did not use all the feature of the DDWRT. But if the RMerlin brings stability to the router I would definitely try it out

Don't know about RMerlin on RT-AC68U, but dd-wrt on the R7000 works really well for me. Stable and great performance. I keep hearing how complicated dd-wrt is, but I don't see it. I just configure what I use, and it works well for me. And lots of monitoring capability, too, which I really like.