treeskygrass
Regular Contributor
Here’s the situation…
Parents have RT-AC68 which meets all their needs given their limited 30/5 internet. Remarkably they have no issue streaming multiple TV’s and use almost 2Tn a month on only 30Mbps (they leave TV on to sleep to).
Anyway, because of the streamers cracking down on password sharing, I route traffic from their 4 TV’s to my own IP so that all our “household” traffic originates from the same IP. Works great.
Problem is the RT-AC68 only supports OpenVPN and I think Wireguard would work better. It’s frustrating because as we all know Wireguard is tiny compared to OpenVPN and the RT-AC68 is totally capable of running it if Asus wanted to update the kernel but that looks unlikely… so I’m thinking of getting another Asus so I can use their mesh feature and turn the RT-AC68 into an AP.
So my question is… what’s the least expensive Asus that supports Wireguard and mesh (and hopefully Merlin)? They seem like mostly expensive gaming routers, which seems silly for their use case.
Parents have RT-AC68 which meets all their needs given their limited 30/5 internet. Remarkably they have no issue streaming multiple TV’s and use almost 2Tn a month on only 30Mbps (they leave TV on to sleep to).
Anyway, because of the streamers cracking down on password sharing, I route traffic from their 4 TV’s to my own IP so that all our “household” traffic originates from the same IP. Works great.
Problem is the RT-AC68 only supports OpenVPN and I think Wireguard would work better. It’s frustrating because as we all know Wireguard is tiny compared to OpenVPN and the RT-AC68 is totally capable of running it if Asus wanted to update the kernel but that looks unlikely… so I’m thinking of getting another Asus so I can use their mesh feature and turn the RT-AC68 into an AP.
So my question is… what’s the least expensive Asus that supports Wireguard and mesh (and hopefully Merlin)? They seem like mostly expensive gaming routers, which seems silly for their use case.