Time for a Gigabit router upgrade, any suggestions?

[Texas_Ace]

@Pete7874

@Texas_Ace

So what are the pros/cons of the R7000 and AC68? They seem to be the only real options in this bracket of routers.

I think they are both great routers. If you are planning on sticking with OEM firmware, then I would say go with AC68U. If you are planning on using third party firmware, then it likely doesn’t matter.

@pilotdog68

If you are considering Tomato, I suggest looking more into that before buying anything. I had heard that the main developer of Tomato had disappeared and development had basically stopped years ago. There is now “AdvancedTomato” but that’s apparently just a skin and based on the old code. So you might miss out on new features or security patches vs an oem FW or OpenWRT.

To my knowledge the AC68 and the R7000 are the exact same hardware, just the Asus has the processor clocked at 800mhz vs R7000’s 1ghz. To complicate things more, Asus changed clock speed in the different 68R/P/W and RT-AC1900 models.

The AC68 has both USB ports on the back, vs the R7000 has the 3.0 on the front (if that matters at all)

Good info once again. That explains why the R7000 did slightly better in the speed tests.

Yes, that is the same thing I had heard about tomato.

Personally now days I generally use the stock router firmware until it doesn’t work for whatever I am doing anymore. So if the ASUS firmware works, then that is what I will try at first and switch it if I find something it can’t do.

At this point I am figuring I will let ebay decide which one I get, whatever version I find the best deal on is the one I will get. If anyone finds a particularly good deal, let me know. Trying to keep it under $50 ideally.