I’m wanting to upgrade my router to a wifi 6e one. Can I have your opinion on which one of these should I purchase: Asus axe7800, Msi axe6600, and acer predator w6 axe7800? I appreciate it.

I don’t think about it at all, Jason. It has never occurred to me.

For the price, nope.

I’m moving to single-floor 2-bedroom apartment and will be using Ziply gig fiber.

I was planning on using a single unit Asus RT-AX92U for my own router, but figured I’d ask if you would recommend anything newer or generally better that is in the same price range ($150-$200) ? Thanks!

Your device is a gateway — it has a built-in ONT. You can’t replace a gateway with a router, you need a standalone ONT first. For your case, you might want check out this post. Make sure you read.

I have been looking for such information without any luck… until I tried reddit which pointed me to your website 🙂

I live in Spain where my ISP provided me with a MitraStar GPT-2741GNAC. That’s a wifi router than can accept the fiber optic cable coming from an ONT.

I am looking for a mesh wifi kit (Asus, Netgear, etc) that can accept the fibre optic cable directly, but it doesn’t seem to be possible.

Would you have any recommendation?

Regards

Perhaps consider further fault isolation before investing in new wifi? e.g. sometimes route-flap or other issues in your last-mile ISP (or their transit providers) can lead to the conditions you note. Running CONCURRENT tests from your PC when problems are observed would help you to determine if the fault is external, or in your wifi.
In a similar vein, you could use an app on phone to PING your hardwired PC when problems are observed. ALSO you could run and iperf3 server on your PC and use an app on the phone to verify that your existing wifi is (or is not) delivering adequate throughput to the phone at its given location.

Most good retail routers will do you a solid in this case, Felix. Your diagram looks fine. I’d recommend you start with this post on routers in general. After that, here are the best Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 6E routers.

You might also consider this post on how to handle that ISP-provided gateway in case you can’t replace it.

I’m in the market for a new router – I have a gigabit connection and am using the default router from my ISP. It’s been pretty good but I’ve noticed (not sure if it’s buffer bloat) occasional lagging/non-loading of certain websites (yahoo mail, reddit, etc.). Even my aunt complains that the videos she watches on fb occasionally “just stop” lol. I’ve tried updating firmware on my router, updating my PC/aunt’s phone, deleting the cache, etc.

As the resident IT at home, I’m surrendering to you, an expert. I live in a small 2-br apartment – the router is in the living room and I’m a room/wall/door away from it. The route is: router > ethernet to switch > ethernet to PC. Everything else in my room is connected via wifi.

What router would you suggest? Should I be looking at devices with fleshed-out QoS? I’m working through all your links but it’s slow-going. I’m just wondering since I saw the new MSI RadiX AXE6600 is $100 off.

Thanks in advance, man!