ASUS RT-ACRH13 or NETGEAR Nighthawk R6700?

[nmch55]

Hi All,

I've posted here a few times, albeit in over in gaming PC components categories, but have always received great feedback so figured I'd try again.

I have 2 new routers (long story) and thinking about selling one. I have the ASUS hooked up now, and seem to be getting decent coverage (my house is around 2k sq feet).

Does anyone have any insight into which one is definitively better? OR firsthand experience with both?

 

[ubercake]

I personally have had bad luck with most AC1750 routers dropping connections and requiring restarts daily. Based on my experience and what you've said about the Asus router, I'd say stick with the Asus if it's working. I went back to my N600 Netgear WNDR3700v2 after having no success at all in my house with $130+ beamforming AC1750 routers. If these things are beamforming and strengthening the signal in the direction of of connected devices, why do they constantly drop connections for stationary desktop PCs? My impression is we're at some sort of experimental stage with this beamforming and such.

Even N600 routers are enough for most household uses. Consider an HD stream will run up to 6 Mb/s of your available bandwidth. Now if you're constantly moving large files around on your internal network, you need something with a lot more speed and bandwidth on your internal network. If your just playing games online, streaming movies from the internet, have a few connected phones, occasionally print something or move a file around like most people and have a decent 25Mbps or greater connection through your ISP, you probably don't need what the industry is currently selling.

The most important thing for most people on a home network is to simply have reliable wireless router with a gigabit (or really just a connection to the modem that's faster than the speed the ISP is providing) connection to their modem.