Router recommendations QoS/Gaming settings

[Davebruno]

My con is 200/20 and is used for streaming live TV, browsing and gaming simultaneously. My gaming is mostly PS4 over LAN but also some PC also over LAN. I also want a decent OpenVPN speed from it.

I would like one that is stable with some 3rd party firmwares as I do like to tinker, wireless isnt really needed to be anything flash as I will always game over LAN the wireless just needs to be good enough for decent youtube/phone use.

I bought the AC68U but to be honest I'm not impressed as it seems a little difficult to get QoS and OpenVPN both going good as I cant seem to find a bufferbloat fix on merlin which has the decent QoS and QoS on Tomato seems to hinder my speeds.. So I'm thinking of returning and upgrading.

My budget is around £140 I've been looking at the R7000 and the WRT1200AC/1900ACS but as I dont care so much about wifi maybe there is a better solution that has better hardware for the CPU/LAN and worse on wifi for the same budget?

Thanks,

Dave

 

[laviniuc]

check out pfsense.org

 

[InvalidError]

I don't know how much Asus may have improved between the N66U and AC66U but my N66U died after only three years (randomly reboots every day or two and both of my tablets lose connection all the time despite being in the same room) so I don't think I'll be touching Asus again for routers. Although slow by modern standards, my ~10 years old WRT54GS is still fully functional.

 

[Faux_Grey]

I've never found luck with a consumer appliance like Asus or Dlink or anything really.

I've been fortunate enough to get some enterprise-grade equipment in my home.

I would recommend a virtual gateway appliance like PFsense, Monowall, or anything like that, much easier to configure and you aren't reliant on your router to be handling anything big.

 

[JanHyka]

Similar to Faux_Grey, I've been having issues with cheapo home solutions, had SMC, Asus, Dlink and one or two others. Always some issues - restarts, needs to run from UPS to keep stable, wifi signal unstable, overheating etc. etc... Then I finally lost patience and bought a Cisco. It's... 5 years give or take... haven't had to even look on it even once after setting it up. But you don't have custom linux distro firmware to play with on their machines. And.. they are EXPENSIVE.