Worth Upgrading from an R7000 yet?

[Mak]

I have been running an R7000 for about 2 years now and it has overall ran very nicely. It has needed to be rebooted probably less than 5 times in total and gives a good throughput and range across all 4 levels of my home to approximately 15 devices (mostly 5GHZ N and AC devices). I am quite happy with it but being a bit of a tech geek, the question of "is there something truly that much better I can upgrade to?" arises. I experimented with the Asus RT-AC3200, TP-Link Archer C2600 MU-MIMO, TP-Link AC-3200 tri-band, and the Netgear R7500 (when it first came out) and all of them provided good but not great numbers. I always went back to my trusty R7000. I have not tried any of the new Linksys or D-Link routers and would like to know whether or not there is anything better in terms of range and throughput that is currently on the market.

 

[System Error Message]

not worth it.
Its worth upgrading the router but not the wifi so if you want to upgrade just keep your R7000 as an AP.

 

[thiggins]

Many people would sell a body part to have what you have.

Until you get multiple MU-MIMO devices or something starts to not work, leave things alone.

 

[TheManFromUncle]

I was about to say the same as Tim did above me. I'm running an AC1900 router myself and I can't find a single reason to change that. When MU-MIMO get's out there properly, then I'll purchase something new, but until then, most routers don't even have supporting firmware for that working yet and only a very very small amount of devices support it.

 

[L&LD]

As Tim suggests, don't break a working system.

When it's time to move on from your working solution, you'll have more than a hunch that there may be something better out there.

 

[TonyH]

As Tim suggests, don't break a working system.

When it's time to move on from your working solution, you'll have more than a hunch that there may be something better out there.

OP said he is quite happy with R7000, at the same time I think he already answered his own question himself. Getting old I am beginning to get lazy/tired of fiddling with new toys, LOL!