Okay - to close the loop on this. With asus and Synology not working with my native ipv6, I continued to find a better solution than my Netgear router but kept running into the same situation.
Turns out it wasn’t the routers. ATT holds ipv6 leases for 2 weeks based on the device so that’s why the Netgear worked and others didn’t.
In the process I used a bunch of routers and learned a lot. As for performance here is what I found:
- Netgear r9000 with Voxel’s firmware is a champ. It is faster and better than my runner up:
- Netgear r7800 with Voxel firmware
Synology RT2600AC would take the cake as number 1 if the firmware was optimized for the processor like Netgear with Voxel - it otherwise performs similarly to those router in stock form but with many more useful/powerful features. I had some instability on the 5ghz band but that is what I dealt with on Netgear until I found Voxel.
- last place is Asus. Idk if it’s the firmware or the fact that it’s Broadcom based but they are incredibly buggy. Wire speed was dead last - I know I used the 86 but I had a couple prior Asus routers including the infamous quentanna based router and my experience has always been the same - lots of hype and marketing but crap performance. Broadcom and Quentanna have always been bad for me and that didn’t change this time around.
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But now I’m done with the standard consumer all in one. I’ve since moved to Ubiquiti which was a much better solution for how my house is set up. The USG-Pro-4 paired with a 24 Poe+ switch and an SHD ceiling mounted access point plus cloudkey and IW-Pro —— wire speed is the best and WiFi is amazing. Much happier with this setup and the configuration is a breeze. These routers are awesome and I totally see why it’s better to separate your WiFi from your router and lan network now.
Turns out it wasn’t the routers. ATT holds ipv6 leases for 2 weeks based on the device so that’s why the Netgear worked and others didn’t.
In the process I used a bunch of routers and learned a lot. As for performance here is what I found:
- Netgear r9000 with Voxel’s firmware is a champ. It is faster and better than my runner up:
- Netgear r7800 with Voxel firmware
Synology RT2600AC would take the cake as number 1 if the firmware was optimized for the processor like Netgear with Voxel - it otherwise performs similarly to those router in stock form but with many more useful/powerful features. I had some instability on the 5ghz band but that is what I dealt with on Netgear until I found Voxel.
- last place is Asus. Idk if it’s the firmware or the fact that it’s Broadcom based but they are incredibly buggy. Wire speed was dead last - I know I used the 86 but I had a couple prior Asus routers including the infamous quentanna based router and my experience has always been the same - lots of hype and marketing but crap performance. Broadcom and Quentanna have always been bad for me and that didn’t change this time around.
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But now I’m done with the standard consumer all in one. I’ve since moved to Ubiquiti which was a much better solution for how my house is set up. The USG-Pro-4 paired with a 24 Poe+ switch and an SHD ceiling mounted access point plus cloudkey and IW-Pro —— wire speed is the best and WiFi is amazing. Much happier with this setup and the configuration is a breeze. These routers are awesome and I totally see why it’s better to separate your WiFi from your router and lan network now.