foosion
Occasional Visitor
I'm looking for a new router for my apartment. It's small enough that single router should suffice.
The most important quality for me is reliability (no spontaneous disconnects or reboots), so long as performance is reasonable.
Our main use is internet connectivity (browsing, streaming and occasional file downloading), our connection almost never goes above 200 Mbps (per various speedtests) and it would be rare for more than two people to be active at once (although more that two devices would be connected at once). We also stream video from a wired computer and sometimes transfer files between machines.
We don't use VPN, QOS or other advanced functions, just basic wired and wireless connectivity.
The most popular routers here seem to be the Netgear R7800 (with Voxel) and the Asus rt-86u (with Merlin). For the Asus there are some concerns about 2.4ghz reliability (I have a recent thread here on the subject), although we rarely use 2.4.
Therefore, I'm leaning towards the R7800, as it seems to get as good or better reviews here and elsewhere and the Voxel firmware seems to solve firmware complaints.
We've been fine with an Asus 66u until it recently started random disconnects.
Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated.
Apologies to the extent this is duplicative of some recent threads.
The most important quality for me is reliability (no spontaneous disconnects or reboots), so long as performance is reasonable.
Our main use is internet connectivity (browsing, streaming and occasional file downloading), our connection almost never goes above 200 Mbps (per various speedtests) and it would be rare for more than two people to be active at once (although more that two devices would be connected at once). We also stream video from a wired computer and sometimes transfer files between machines.
We don't use VPN, QOS or other advanced functions, just basic wired and wireless connectivity.
The most popular routers here seem to be the Netgear R7800 (with Voxel) and the Asus rt-86u (with Merlin). For the Asus there are some concerns about 2.4ghz reliability (I have a recent thread here on the subject), although we rarely use 2.4.
Therefore, I'm leaning towards the R7800, as it seems to get as good or better reviews here and elsewhere and the Voxel firmware seems to solve firmware complaints.
We've been fine with an Asus 66u until it recently started random disconnects.
Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated.
Apologies to the extent this is duplicative of some recent threads.