Just bought one of those ASUS routers. And damn have I been missing out!!! This speed and connectivity range is beyond anything Inhave owned before!

I used to by shitty routers and when I finally invested in a good one (Asus here too) I've been really happy and will never buy a cheap router again.

@dfox regardless of my connection speed, my last router would give me a slow speed and an awful range. I'm in love with this new router!

@thmnmlst you should get it!! 😁

@thmnmlst I didn't get that one! Haha

This is the one I got.

They give great range and are full of extra features too.

Im moving in about 4 months to Colorado and definitely going to get one of these

@StefanH They MIGHT do a better job, maybe, but they will certainly use more power than the Asus router. If you want your home electricity bill to be through the roof and you have room for a bulky (compared to the Asus router) machine laying around, build your own. And actually I'd find it hard to believe that you could make a router for the same price or cheaper.

Try Tomato, a custom firmware for a lot of Asus' routers

That looks hideous. It would have to go in the living room, unfortunately my living room us not the set of star wars. Would certainly like the speed though.

@helloworld looks didn't matter to me in the case of a router, all that mattered was a trusted brand name, awesome speed and coverage. All of which this router has given me.

I did a couple of tests on it and it seems to be great so far, it has finally given me the speed Im paying for. And oh lord am I enjoying the same awesome speed and connectivity while sitting by the swimming pool!

Separate router with 3-4 Unifi AC AP 😍

@StefanH I'm planning to buy a R6250 to use with Advanced Tomato. The best firmware imho

@StefanH your solution, although fine, would be considered a little difficult for many. Also having a server around a house is impractical for non-tech people (an example is me, my house has 15+ devices run by non-tech people. I wouldn't want them touching my server while I'm out of he house).

Similarly I too would rather buy a small router rather than find the perfect tutorial out of thousands of tutorials online just to build a router.

I understand it may work for you, and many others. And it will certainly save people a lot of money. But it's not a solution for the masses

I recently got a ubiquity poe router with a ubiquity up ac. Best upgrade I've ever done :)

TP Link here.

Is it just the Wifi that's improved, or are there other things that are better?

@QoolQuy2000 I have one AP and one Router (bridge). My previous bridge was pretty old and could not support bridge so I had it set up as a DHCP router that could assign it's own IPs although this worked, it had a problem with network speed. Being old it could not serve the speed I had purchased at the ISP. The ASUS helped me overcome this, being new it can now broadcast the right speed as well give a bigger coverage!