RT-AC68U

"My ASUS RT-AC68U seems to be limiting the speed on 2.4 GHz — I can’t even get close to 100 Mbps"- Thats about right. Practical speeds on 2.4GHz are about 50ish Mbps using default settings. Want higher speeds? Use 5GHz.

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.

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 just tested freshtomato-RT-AC1900P-K26ARM-2025.3-VPN-64K and the wifi signal got slightly better but the speeds were around 3-5 Mbps for VPN connections. Previously I had flashed it with freshtomato-RT-AC1900P-K26ARM-2025.3-AIO-64K and the speeds were well below 1Mbps for VPN connections. Using th

Ahhh ok makes sense. There’s another comment, about getting the u7 in wall version - I don’t know about specs as hard to do comparisons But I have a zen wifi in the living room and office Upstairs is covered by 1 ac68u - and is pretty poor tbh We usually have to turn off the wifi (on phones) upstair

I got a rt be92u and it is stable. Better range than my ac68u