sluisman Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 Hi everyone, I am looking for a new dual band ac Router. It must be fast and reliable For me there are two options: The asus RT-AC68U and the Netgear R7000. Any suggestions wich one I must chose Thanks in advance, Sluisman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baz001 Posted October 16, 2013 Share Posted October 16, 2013 Was in same position. In my case I got an AC66u as I needed it and couldnt wait for ac68u to be available.My thinking was the good feedback, maturity and enough speed and stability. Ive had a few Asus products in the past and mostly good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sluisman Posted October 25, 2013 Author Share Posted October 25, 2013 Yesterday I got my brand new Asus RT-ac68U. First thing I noticed was the incredible easy set up for the router. next thing: Its very fast. At the 5G band the speed is doubled over my old linksys E4200. There is downsite however. There is no NAT-loopback on this router in the stock firmware. Thats a minor because I want to use my domain name insite and outsite my network. Gues I have to wait for an other firmare like Merlin. Other than this I am very pleased with my new router. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xnx Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 Asus by far Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinosaurhunger Posted May 14, 2014 Share Posted May 14, 2014 I have the r7000 and the range is huge on 2.4ghz and 5ghz. My old router had trouble penetrating walls but this one cut through em like butter. I would recommend it to others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dashize Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 I picked up the asus 56u and after making a couple tweaks to the settings its up and running solid. I did forget about the built in FTP and kept trying to figure out how come i couldn't get to my internal network ftp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnderdogRally Posted May 27, 2014 Share Posted May 27, 2014 I'm quite satisfied with my R7000. Easy to set up and manage, works great in managing a mix of N and AC connections, and the default software (firmware + genie app) is more than sufficient for me needs. I've read, but can't confirm that the Asus has better cloud features. The netgear is passable but not great in that respect. I've also read, and can confirm that the netgear has great usb3 transfer rates. I have a hard drive mounted in the usb3 slot acted as a NAS, and it's working great.My only complaint is that it's huge (coming from a dir-615). Between the device and antennae, it takes up a lot of horizontal and vertical real estate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anophis Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 I'm very happy with my new ASUS RT-AC68U. The only thing is that I had to lay it down on it's back and it's not really made for this. Hope it will survive the summer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
euphoric28 Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 I have the ASUS RT-AC68R which is the retail in store version (same exact thing) and I love it. No complaints and you can run ddwrt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2dotcom Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 i got the netgear r7000 with ddwrt and it's running great! had it for about a month now. no problem at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y400 user Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 I love my R7000 just bought it yesterday best network improvement I have ever made. This replaced my old DIR655 router. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dorus Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 I am also very pleased with my R7000.Accept for one thing.It's not able to set-up a guest network without allowing to go to your complete LAN.But the wifi range surprised me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeroY Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 I have the R7000 since about a week now and I'm very pleased with it. The only downside is if you change a setting you have to wait for 90 seconds. Even it's a very tiny setting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizmo_Geek Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 Running an R7000 with DD-WRT and increased power. I can say with honesty that the 2,4 reaches way out there and the speeds on the 5ghz are better than my previous Asus. Do have some random reboot issues and the DHCP server sometimes not forwarding a lease to my access points for a new authentication (AP's not running DHCP of any kind and requesting lease from R7000). I recently put it to the test and dabbled for days on all kinds of settings to tweak performance, eventually being able to cover about 35 of my 60 acres of farm with >35% signal, even with reasonable foliage and walls made of tin and steel. I could stream music no problems at my barn which is about 250 yds across a ravine from the house where the router was as well as in my shop which is about 200 yds the other side of the house. The stock firmware is not bad and has lots of options without being overwhelming, and the beamforming blows my old Asus out of the water. Don't like the USB3.0 being in the front of such a sexy machine, and if you crank the power, expect the noise to go up too. The stock antennas, for looking so good, have a shape that really doesn't make available any adjusted configuration that isn't the generic 'sits on desk horizontal, antenna have to be vertical' type. Trivial complaints I know, but still complaints. I think my next setup will be those stand alone Ubiquity Unifi dual-band AP's though, I've used them for work and the range for having internal antennas is awesome, they are POE, and they cost $250 for three of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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