RT-AC68U

What else is in front of the AC-68u? The ISP speeds you’re talking about (1,000 —> 1,200 Mbps) sound like DOCSIS cable speeds, so is there a cable modem (or ISP router in bridge mode) sitting in front? For simplicity, I will call this device a modem (even though it may be an ISP gateway device) sinc

I believe Merlinwrt is much like the Asus stock (it's what Merlin is based off of) but with just a few added tweaks like better vlan configurations and multiple wireless lan configuration and SSH access and better firewall configuration, and VPN. That's pretty much the same with freshtomato, it give

Ive had one for a while too - until area offered 2Gig Fiber - so i needed to upgrade the router since ports were only 1gig (and everything else in the house also eneded refreshing to support to at least 2.5g) to achieve advertised speeds;So I ended up getting into pfsense on a minipc with dual SFP+

That ASUS AC68U should work just fine as a dumb AP. What do you mean by WiFi is not supported? Does OpenWRT not have any WiFi support for that device? I am not familiar with it. If it does, then it would seem logical to use it's WiFi capabilities if you have a wired backhaul. If you can get a wired

TL;DR: Since you stated you need Adaptive QoS, then you should probably leave the RT-AC68U as the router, add the RT-AX55 as a mesh node and call it a day. Other thoughts: To learn more about AiMesh, this is a great resource: https://dongknows.com/tips-and-rules-on-picking-the-best-asus-aimesh-combo

What's your opinion on using two older ASUS routers with AiMesh? Getting EBOX in a few weeks and wondering if AiMesh using a RT-AC86U and RT-AC68U will get the job done, or is simply outdated.

I was thinking about upgrading my 2 routers from an AC68U (main router) and an AC66U (bridge) to 2 new BE86Us. My AC66U was on the latest Merlin FW but kept having issues. I found a newer official FW from asus and flashed that and performed a reset after the flash. It seems to be stable now. My AC68

Yeah, at some point I have to figure something out for my parents if they stay in their house. I have them set up with an ASUS RT-N66U router in the basement with two TP-Link AC routers set as APs, but a mesh system using gigabit Ethernet for backhaul would probably be better than the hodge-podge th

I would say 2/3 on a scale of 10 :-) I can tweak router admin settings, set up VPN, but that's about it. I currently have two Asus RT-AC68U routers, although I tried to set them up in AI mesh mode (is that still a thing?) but couldn't and gave up.At this stage in life (two kids, one of which is a to

In that case, just buy a cable/FTTP router which supports DHCP Option 61. I know my 2 Asus routers in the past (RT-AC68U and RT-AC56U) have supported this in the WAN settings, although I'd make sure to check or buy from somewhere with a leniant returns policy.