mustardquail
Occasional Visitor
Hi there,
I've been having some issues with my Asus RT-AC5300 router. I've been thinking about upgrading for a while, so I'm looking at potential devices to upgrade to.
The issues seem to happen with intense lag spikes and disconnects when a heavy network load is happening (two devices at a time on a video conference, and when my Samsung Galaxy S10 phone is connected). Oddly enough, my phone connects perfectly fine to one of the 5GHz connections, but on the other 5GHz connection my phone will frequently get no Internet access (even though it's connected to the network). Additionally, these severe lag spikes tend to happen randomly sometimes when I pull out my phone to check something and there's a device streaming high bandwidth content via Ethernet, or a device is on a video call wirelessly. This appears to happen even though I've tinkered with QoS.
I've been a bit tired of dealing with these issues, as I feel like my router should be able to handle all of the devices on my network. At this point, I've considered looking for another cheap RT-AC5300 to potentially try load balancing on a mesh network setup, but figured I would ask about other routers in the meantime.
Are there any highly recommended routers that would easily handle this sort of traffic? My bandwidth tests generally deliver ~300Mb/s (fiber connection), and my home square footage is ~1500ft.
I would love to get the functionality to enable wireless VLANs if possible, and allow devices to exist in multiple VLANs as well if that's recommended -- ideally, have a guest network, a VLAN for IoT devices, one for work-related devices, miscellaneous devices, etc. and allow my phone to be on both the misc devices & the IoT devices VLAN so it can change my Hue light colors and such.
If this is a bad idea or impossible though, totally understand that though. I guess I'm just hoping to have VLAN functionality, potentially a mesh network setup, and network stability/beefy system resources above all else.
I've been having some issues with my Asus RT-AC5300 router. I've been thinking about upgrading for a while, so I'm looking at potential devices to upgrade to.
The issues seem to happen with intense lag spikes and disconnects when a heavy network load is happening (two devices at a time on a video conference, and when my Samsung Galaxy S10 phone is connected). Oddly enough, my phone connects perfectly fine to one of the 5GHz connections, but on the other 5GHz connection my phone will frequently get no Internet access (even though it's connected to the network). Additionally, these severe lag spikes tend to happen randomly sometimes when I pull out my phone to check something and there's a device streaming high bandwidth content via Ethernet, or a device is on a video call wirelessly. This appears to happen even though I've tinkered with QoS.
I've been a bit tired of dealing with these issues, as I feel like my router should be able to handle all of the devices on my network. At this point, I've considered looking for another cheap RT-AC5300 to potentially try load balancing on a mesh network setup, but figured I would ask about other routers in the meantime.
Are there any highly recommended routers that would easily handle this sort of traffic? My bandwidth tests generally deliver ~300Mb/s (fiber connection), and my home square footage is ~1500ft.
I would love to get the functionality to enable wireless VLANs if possible, and allow devices to exist in multiple VLANs as well if that's recommended -- ideally, have a guest network, a VLAN for IoT devices, one for work-related devices, miscellaneous devices, etc. and allow my phone to be on both the misc devices & the IoT devices VLAN so it can change my Hue light colors and such.
If this is a bad idea or impossible though, totally understand that though. I guess I'm just hoping to have VLAN functionality, potentially a mesh network setup, and network stability/beefy system resources above all else.
