RT-AC68U

Bad advice. Asus routers are actually amazing products, and enhancing it with merlin firmware make it the best routers you can buy, in my humble opinion. I've only ever had 2 Asus routers, one i bought in 2013 (AC68U), which lasted until they discontinued it in March 2024. And I bought the replaceme

Power user or not, the biggest advantage of going FT on your router is that Asus declared it EOL beginning of 2024 and there will be no more firmware fixes or updates. Even though Asus did in fact release firmware security fix last year for it, it's not a guarantee. Many old, EOL routers are still u

Keeps the router up-to-date as far as security. I have to TMo versions running FT. Last Black Friday I bought a new Asus to upgrade the wifi standards. Nothing but problems. Returned it and plugged my trusty AC68U FT back in. If it ain't broke don't fix it.

It is as if you were closing your eyes and asking someone what are the benefits to open the eyes... there is a lot of possibilities with Tomato firmware i am using it on my Ac66uB1 since many years and i prefer it...With ac68u /66UB1 there is no brik risk... you can easily switch from asus firmware

You're thinking of the T-Mobile Cellspot Router, which was a rebranded ASUS RT-AC68U (branded instead as TM-AC1900). I still have some lying around that I flashed to stock ASUS firmware a while ago. They're old as hell now, but not entirely useless as auxiliary wifi units/part of an ASUS mesh.

Check out snbforums, the BE92U has been a bit iffy, might be the earlier hardware revisions. In general, I still like Asus, their mass produced regular routers (AC68U/AX86U* etc), not the huge over priced spiders, because they get great firmware support for many years, whether official or merlin.

The Flex 2.5G PoE + AC Adapter 210W would be the better match Exactly the conclusion I came to last month. Seemed like this is the time to go 2.5gb equipment so I'm not replacing again in a couple years. Hoping what I bought lasts ~10 years like my last AC68U did.

If that Asus is the RT-AC68U then it's at least meshable if you buy a newer Asus router to use as your main router. That's one of the things that I like about using AiMesh. You can get a better router, and still put your old one to work somewhere else in the house. My current RT-AX68U Pro replaced b

The AC68u was/is a router I encountered a lot where I live. Recommended that thing to so many people too.

go to a thrift market or something. what city are you in? i recently went to a local thrift market and got a asus rt ac68u (flash of 256 mb)... it's a beast. and used a TP link AP lying around... flashed openwrt on both. the whole setup cost me less than 1000 rupees (or $11 for reference).