RT-AC68U

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

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

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.

I hope I'm not tempting fate here, but my RT-AC68U router has been great since I bought it new back in 2016. It just works, and is fast enough. I've also been using the Merlin firmware for quite a while for some of the additional features like VPN Server etc. and it'll be a sad day when it has to go

It's fiber, so it's direct to ethernet. Speed on wired is good. I also tried my old ac68u router in the same location. Easy 140mbps on 2.4ghz. Not too many other wifi connections around. I tried using guest network to separate the bands, but it's a pain as there is no setting to enable guest clients