WiFi router recommendations

[TheHvidsten]

Until recently I had a Netgear Nighthawk X6S that I was relatively happy with. It had good coverage of my apartment, had a guest network, decently fast hardware, and some good advanced settings.

What I wasn't happy with was the stability. It often lost it's WAN connection (2-4 times a year), crashed (2-4 times a year, reboot helped), and crashed completely about once a year (everything was reset to factory defauly and had to be set up again..

It has now crashed completely for the last time (almost catastrophically this time) and I need to replace it with something better than what my ISP has given me.

 

Which good alternatives are out there to replace this? The replacement should have good coverage (powerful radios? multiple antennas?), should have fast hardware, must be able to set up a guest network, must have portforwarding for more than TCP+UDP (i.e. GRE (47).

I've heard WiFi6 mentioned here and there, and it should probably support that as well?

 

Does anyone have any good recommendations? Preferrably not Netgear due to my bad experience with the previous router.

[Alex Atkin UK]

On 4/18/2022 at 4:55 PM, GTHvidsten said:

Until recently I had a Netgear Nighthawk X6S that I was relatively happy with. It had good coverage of my apartment, had a guest network, decently fast hardware, and some good advanced settings.

What I wasn't happy with was the stability. It often lost it's WAN connection (2-4 times a year), crashed (2-4 times a year, reboot helped), and crashed completely about once a year (everything was reset to factory defauly and had to be set up again..

It has now crashed completely for the last time (almost catastrophically this time) and I need to replace it with something better than what my ISP has given me.

 

Which good alternatives are out there to replace this? The replacement should have good coverage (powerful radios? multiple antennas?), should have fast hardware, must be able to set up a guest network, must have portforwarding for more than TCP+UDP (i.e. GRE (47).

I've heard WiFi6 mentioned here and there, and it should probably support that as well?

 

Does anyone have any good recommendations? Preferrably not Netgear due to my bad experience with the previous router.

A quick Googling suggests GRE may work using a TCP rule, at least on some routers.  Though GRE is not a secure tunnel so not sure I'd use it personally, seems quite a wide open hacking target.