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

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.

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

To make it simple, as she tells me, "I need to watch my Hallmark movies, use facebook on my ipad, and play sudoku on my phone." She has very few demands here. Her Netgear router was last updated in 2018, and is now long unsupported. Also, it is using the first iteration of 802.11ac. I just want to g

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

Does sound like an AP issue. The ASUS RT-AC68U has bad 2.4 Ghz support on openwrt. DD-wrt probably has the newest drivers for a broadcom based board.

You mention Asus here, and my impression is that Asus normally have a quite long support time for their products. The absence of a firmware update for a while, does not mean that the product is end of support. A driver behind why Asus normally have had quite good long term support over the last 10 y