Asus AC68U or Upgrade?

[tdub42]

I recently just upgraded providers from 60meg to 1GB. There is a 200meg difference from the modem ports and from my AC68U ports. Is there anyway to optimize this or should I look for a new router? Thanks for all your help guys I am currently running Merlin 380.59_0

 

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you mean 1Gb?. Add your download and upload together and it gives you your forwarding speed. If you are happy having only 1Gb/s of forwarding than your current router with hardware NAT is fine otherwise you will need a totally different router. Upgrading gives you faster CPU but if your NAT speed is sufficient i dont see why you need to upgrade other than for the hardware which you may not use.

 

[tdub42]

you mean 1Gb?. Add your download and upload together and it gives you your forwarding speed. If you are happy having only 1Gb/s of forwarding than your current router with hardware NAT is fine otherwise you will need a totally different router. Upgrading gives you faster CPU but if your NAT speed is sufficient i dont see why you need to upgrade other than for the hardware which you may not use.

Fully understand its the "get what your paying for" feeling. The Uverse router came with wireless but I use a vpn that works great with the ASUS router. Again I am happy to have an increase of 8x what I had, just seeing if there were anymore that could handle the speed a little better.

 

[L&LD]

I recently just upgraded providers from 60meg to 1GB. There is a 200meg difference from the modem ports and from my AC68U ports. Is there anyway to optimize this or should I look for a new router? Thanks for all your help guys I am currently running Merlin 380.59_0

The RT-AC1900P (BB exclusive right now), RT-AC3100, RT-AC88U and the RT-AC5300 all come with 1.4GHz dual core processors (about 75% faster than the original RT-AC68U came with). But they all have 1Gbps (max) routing speeds.

The BRT-AC828/M2 is what you want (particularly if you have symmetric 1Gbps u/d speeds).

http://www.snbforums.com/threads/ne...-dual-wan-vpn-router.32839/page-2#post-265829

Just to illustrate why is this ASUS BRT-AC828M2 is fully dual WAN 1Gbps capable up to 2Gbps and hardware NAT router.

One picture is worth more than a thousand words

I don't think the BRT-AC828/M2 is available (anywhere) though. But it is the only one worth upgrading to with your ISP speeds.

Any currently available router is not worth upgrading to (even if it tests a little higher in WAN to LAN and LAN to WAN) right now. Just pray the BRT-AC828/M2 doesn't cost as much as a small home.

 

[tdub42]

The RT-AC1900P (BB exclusive right now), RT-AC3100, RT-AC88U and the RT-AC5300 all come with 1.4GHz dual core processors (about 75% faster than the original RT-AC68U came with). But they all have 1Gbps (max) routing speeds.

The BRT-AC828/M2 is what you want (particularly if you have symmetric 1Gbps u/d speeds).

http://www.snbforums.com/threads/ne...-dual-wan-vpn-router.32839/page-2#post-265829



I don't think the BRT-AC828/M2 is available (anywhere) though. But it is the only one worth upgrading to with your ISP speeds.

Any currently available router is not worth upgrading to (even if it tests a little higher in WAN to LAN and LAN to WAN) right now. Just pray the BRT-AC828/M2 doesn't cost as much as a small home.

Thanks so much for the information, I am interested to see if my new connection requires reboots. The AC1900 at bestbuy I thought had a shorter range then the original. I think you guys so much now I have to configure the uverse router son couldn't do chat on xbox after the switch.

 

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Thanks so much for the information, I am interested to see if my new connection requires reboots. The AC1900 at bestbuy I thought had a shorter range then the original. I think you guys so much now I have to configure the uverse router son couldn't do chat on xbox after the switch.

Note; 'AC1900' is a class of WiFi. 'RT-AC1900P' is the model I'm referring to.

 

[tdub42]

Note; 'AC1900' is a class of WiFi. 'RT-AC1900P' is the model I'm referring to.

Lol I know I just have experienced reboots with my ac1900 for a long time (well having to reboot) because the wifi would lock up. I haven't found a firmware to alleviate this issue and if another model or newer makes that possibly I am all for it. As it will make my home network less maintenance intensive as well.

 

[L&LD]

Lol I know I just have experienced reboots with my ac1900 for a long time (well having to reboot) because the wifi would lock up. I haven't found a firmware to alleviate this issue and if another model or newer makes that possibly I am all for it. As it will make my home network less maintenance intensive as well.

Which model are you talking about? Linksys?

We're talking about the Asus RT-AC1900P here.

 

[tdub42]

Which model are you talking about? Linksys?

We're talking about the Asus RT-AC1900P here.

I am too sorry for misunderstanding I just referred to as1900 because that is what the RT-68U is. Thanks for all your feedback.

 

[tdub42]

Probably getting the bestbuy AC1900P had ATT come out 2x now my router is only getting 250Mb down but without it I get 957 not sure which to get.