RT-AX88U

I skipped 6E and 7 entirely because of the same reasons. Even on my “old” Asus ax88u, I’m able to pull 700mbps over WiFi to my MacBook Pro and around 600ish on my iPhone 16 pro. There’s really no reason to upgrade unless you’re going multi gigabit and you really want to upgrade But even at that poin

I have one. It’s fantastic. But I whitelist devices. I don’t want my young kids having VPN access unless I manually turn it on. It was very easy to set up. I have an ASUS RT-AX88U. Just needed to upgrade the firmware to Asuswrt-Merlin. I don’t remember all the steps, but it was one of those things w

Get a ASUS AX92U or RT-AX88U Pro We have 1 in our house and we get full bars everywhere

First question— do any of your devices even have WiFi 7 capability? At 600mbps, 1100 sqft, and your gaming devices hardwired, I would say something like a Glinet flint 2, or even Asus RT AX88u Pro for the 2.5gbps ports for future needs.

That's a great download of your initial thoughts. Thanks a lot for sharing. I have a RT-AX88U Pro and the RAM on that is almost maxed all the time too. I've not had any issues with it thus far. I think I will make the plunge and get myself one of these soon.

You really need to try setting up own VPN server with Wireguard (it works for Asus RT-AX88U Pro) works perfectly for streaming

there is currently no need for wifi 7 other than better range in some settings. wifi 6 is plenty of fast enough. I have the RT-AX88U pro and 800mbs+ per wireless client is a bigger pipe than most can use comsidering 4k only uses 35 mbs and most servers cap downloads shy of 800mbs.

I've been more than pleased with my Asus RT-AX88U. It has been far the best home router I've had at home and I've had networks in my house in the late 1990's.

The RT-AX88U Pro is powerful, but your unmanaged switch and mesh might be the culprit. The switch might drop the tags so the mesh node doesn't know which device belongs to which network. Test connecting the TUF directly to a LAN port of the AC88U: if it stabalizes it confirms this theory. Set the 2.

I recommend ASUS whenever people ask. I have a previous gen RT-AX88U which still kicks hard. It only has 1Gbps ports, but can bind two to give 2Gbps. The newer versions support WiFi I don’t have on my devices, and there are a couple VLAN things mine doesn’t do. It has great range and works with mesh