madhatter01
Regular Contributor
I had a Netgear R7000. Since day one I had a issue were I would be connected but no web sites would show. I would have to disable wifi and re enable it to reconnect. This would happen 2-5 times a day. I have had several Netgear's and never had good luck with them.
I decide to buy the Linksys WRT1900AC a few weeks ago. I liked the cloud connect stuff. The build quality was amazing. Over all it worked great, but there was no advance settings. It was just to stripped down of an OS.
Then it took it back and got an Netgear R8000. Same old gui netgear has had forever. Lots of settings, but old. QOS was also missing. I hate having to reboot every little change. Right off the bat my Dell venue 11 pro had issue with the Intel 720ac card I had in it. Every time it went to sleep I would get limited or no connectivity. On their forums lots of people have this issue. The only way to fix it was to reboot the router. Rebooting the tablet would no fix it. After four 2 hours phone calls and 50 emails I figured out what it was. For some reason their router did not like the newest drivers from Intel. I had to find drivers over a year old to get it to work. There was also all kinds of other stability issues with the R8000. The build quality was cheap on it.
Then the RT-AC87R came out at best buy. All I can say is wow. This is perfect. OS gui is amazing, lots of settings. I have had no stability issues.
The R8000 is going back.
I decide to buy the Linksys WRT1900AC a few weeks ago. I liked the cloud connect stuff. The build quality was amazing. Over all it worked great, but there was no advance settings. It was just to stripped down of an OS.
Then it took it back and got an Netgear R8000. Same old gui netgear has had forever. Lots of settings, but old. QOS was also missing. I hate having to reboot every little change. Right off the bat my Dell venue 11 pro had issue with the Intel 720ac card I had in it. Every time it went to sleep I would get limited or no connectivity. On their forums lots of people have this issue. The only way to fix it was to reboot the router. Rebooting the tablet would no fix it. After four 2 hours phone calls and 50 emails I figured out what it was. For some reason their router did not like the newest drivers from Intel. I had to find drivers over a year old to get it to work. There was also all kinds of other stability issues with the R8000. The build quality was cheap on it.
Then the RT-AC87R came out at best buy. All I can say is wow. This is perfect. OS gui is amazing, lots of settings. I have had no stability issues.
The R8000 is going back.
