ASUS RT-AC56R worth it over the RT-N66U?

[hyelton]

Amazon has the RT-N66u (Ive owned one before) and Wal-Mart (local pickup has the RT-AC56R for $2 cheaper. Is it worth to get newer hardware? or would the RT-N66U still be preferred? Have not seen much on the AC56R much.

Currently have a Netgear R6300v2.

 

[hggomes]

RT-AC56U its a better router.

 

[hyelton]

Im either going to get one of the two, or go with DD-WRT on my R6300v2.

This weekend it going to be the best, specially Sunday as no one will be home and I can pull the network down and no one complain lol.

Also if it helps, its not the WiFi Im looking for, its the Reliablity and stability of 20 devices.

 

[L&LD]

RT-AC56U seconded. Better overall performance than the RT-N66U today (both with RMerlin firmware, of course).

 

[hyelton]

Thanks!,

What about the
RT-AC55U ? It seems to be on sale

 

[hggomes]

RT-AC55U it's MIPS32 720MHZ with 128MB RAM Qualcomm based and Kernel 3.3.x , RT-AC56U is ARM 800MHZ with 256MB RAM Broadcom based and old Kernel 2.6.36.

You can decide yourself based on these

RT-AC56U is the better option, no doubts.

 

[L&LD]

Agree with hggomes once again, but I'll be more direct: I wouldn't even look at the RT-AC55U with my own money.

 

[hggomes]

Eheheehe

 

[Nullity]

I think the N66U has better (among the best?) range, but the AC56U wins in every other way, unless your chosen firmware is not ARM compatible. The price is already ludicrously low on the AC56U... so tempting. Best-value, readily available router for quite a while now, from what I have seen.

 

[L&LD]

The RT-N66U was better... As has been written here many times (and from long ago) the AC Class routers are now at the top of the heap.

http://www.snbforums.com/threads/asuswrt-merlin-3-0-0-4-374-38-is-out.14691/page-19#post-99500

This is what impressed me the most with the RT-AC56U's internal antenna design - still great range and throughput - especially on the 2.4GHz band.

 

[jtp10181]

I picked the AC56 due to the dual core and ram amount over others in the same price point. It has similar specs as the AC68 but with internal antennas and slower AC speed but I have no need for that much wifi speed anyway. Range seems decent but hard for me to tell, in an apartment building way over saturated in 2.4ghz. That's why I finally had to upgrade just to get the 5ghz. In the back room I get like 30mbps on 5ghz and only 2-4mbps on the 2.4ghz due to noise.


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[zakoh]

Pick AC over non-AC router any day of week. They're just better and worth the price premium.