RT-AC68U

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.

I got the Mikrotik HeX Refresh (no wifi) for router recently to use separate devices for routing and wireless. I set up my two asus ac66u_b1 to work in 'AP with AiMesh' (same hardware as ac68u). A week later, realised that one of the routers' wifi has failed. Then got the Microtik hAP ax s. Loving t

It was 10 years old. ASUS RT-AC68U. It was great until I upgrade from 100 Mbps FTTC to 500 Mbps FTTP. The Asus could still pump out 500+ over wifi but only at short range. I’ve got a Flint 2 now.

Wrt54GL (takes the expanded version of dd-wrt with more features) After that it’s the cellspot from t-mobile, which is a rebranded rt-ac68u. Hacking this to the Merlin firmware made it rock solid. You could also pick these up for stupid cheap

Personally, i'd say get an Asus router that supports Merlin firmware. You can look up the compatible list here - https://www.asuswrt-merlin.net/ I've got AC68U from 2013 that just met its end of life in 2024. Ran with merlin firmware almost the whole time. Now running a AX86U Pro that replaced the A

I replaced my ancient AC-68U with an ASUS RT-BE86U and in the mean time, sent it back. Either for repair or for a refund. For a device that is about 12 years newer, it was just awful. It was actually worse than the old Asus router: Many devices often lost the connection (tables, raspis, phones, tvs,

I have the legendary AC68U (actually TM-AC1900 from t-mobile, but flashed). 10+ yrs later, still running like a champ as of now.

I'd been using it for over 10 years, it served me so well. Just tonight my unit stopped working...FYI they still update the firmware, the last one dated 2025/10/27, very recent:https://www.asus.com/networking-iot-servers/wifi-routers/asus-wifi-routers/rtac68u/helpdesk_bios?model2Name=RTAC68U Other m

How do you like so far? How stable it is? I currently have RT-AC68U with Merlin firmware and lately it started to reset itself to default settings.