The RT-AC3100 is very old and I’ve never tested it, JJ, but it’s similar to the RT-AC88U. As for your expectations and hopes, that depends on many variants. More about AiMesh in this post, and more about routers in this post (don’t miss the section bout Wi-Fi ranges!) Good luck!

The 160MHz notion of this router is pretty much useless since practically no Wi-Fi 5 client supports it. I have two R7800 units in storage, gathering dust. They are both OK. The only advantage is this model supports DDWRT, which was cool at one point.

This list includes only those I reviewed for this website, so generally, it doesn’t include most routers released before 2018. The R7800 came out in early 2016. If you Google it with my name, you’ll see that I already reviewed it then (and many others.)

Thanks for the input, though. 🙂

This was qualcomm based router which could do 160 MHZ while also offering 4×4 MU-MIMO Streams. Some people did have some issues with it, but it was the only router for me which was rock stable for all these years. I was never impressed with signal strength with both the ASUS’s I had owned previously including the AC88U and the AC68U.

Both the ASUS AC88U & the AC68U had terrible range for my clients in the room, but the NETGEAR R7800 during that time had useable singnal strength that I could watch 1080p videos without much buffer.

Netgear wins for RAW performance on wireless, while the ASUS wins if you want OPEN VPN support i.e on ASUS router one can easily load an OPEN VPN config and use it so that all the clients get instant VPN instead of clients trying to connect to a vpn individually.

I haven’t tested the TP-Link, Ajinkya, but I’d recommend the Asus. The RT-AC86U is a top-tier Wi-Fi 5 router. It’s much faster than the entry-level RT-AX55, among other things.

No, Jerry. Considering your Internet speed, I’d go with whichever that’s more affordable.

I was going to buy the RT-AC86U for a small home with very modest internet speed (100 down/10 up). Then I noticed that the Asus ROG GT-AC2900 is cheaper but seems to be the same performance. I don’t need gaming features but I’m sure I can just not use those settings on the GT. Is there an upside to the RT-AC86U that would make it worth a higher price compared to the GT-AC2900? Maybe better firmware support/updates, better range, or something else?

Thanks

Hey Dong, i was reading the above reviews and have a few questions.

You mentioned that the [ Netgear Nighthawk Pro Gaming XR500 ] had No built in security. Is that correct? I thought all routers came with security features?

I have the The [Netgear Nighthawk 6 Stream AX4300] and opted NOT to sign up for the [Netgear Armor-$69.99 / year]. Was this a wise decision?

I didn’t purchase it because, I was under the belief that Netgear routers were the best when it came to security. Your thoughts?

Yeap. They are just quite different and I like them both equally.