AC1900 Routers

[Forece]

Hey guys,

 

So I am out the market looking for a new AC1900 router to replace my crappy cisco router. I have narrowed down to the WRT1900AC from Linksys and the RT-AC68U from ASUS. I don't know if the firmware is good on either of them and I am new to these stuff. *This is literally hurting my brain*

 

Thanks!

[Anthony_95]

The Netgear R7000 is a good too and less expensive than the Linksys !

[Forece]

@Anthony_95

Thanks for replying! So this is my main concern, Linksys has the fastest chipset at 1.2Ghz, Netgear has the second fastest chipset at 1.0Ghz while the ASUS got a chipset at 800Mhz. However, the Linksys uses a Marvell Chipset instead of a Broadcom Chipset like the other two. I like the clean design and the simplicity of the Linksys alot. Netgear looks cool to but I don't get why they put the USB3.0 in the front while having that 2.0 at the back. ASUS is okay I guess, not the best though. Do you have any suggestions? Forgot to memtion, firmware is a big problem, too. I actually don't know which one has the best firmware and stuff.

[Anthony_95]

You can compare rates of these three models on smallnetbuilder.com, is a really interesting site for all devices in a network. The appearance is not particularly important as the performance of the router for me. As is true that the firmware WRT1900AC have many more options such as OpenWRT or DD-WRT but is up to you what to choice. Personally if you do not need to use the advanced features of wrt1900ac, I would choose the netgear and get maximum performance.

[Forece]

@Anthony_95

I took a look at that website, from what I could see, it looks like the Netgear r7000 is the best. How is the firmware on the Netgear r7000 though? I don't need the extra features on the WRT1900AC. I still don't get why the Netgear can beat the WRT1900AC when the WRT1900AC has a faster chipset. Anyway, would you recommend the Netgear r7000 to me?

[Anthony_95]

I don't know how the firmware of the r7000 actually is but I guess you will have all the functions that any router has today (probably more...). Searching the web, I have found people with problems with it, so go for it.

[Darren]

Go with the cheaper one. The speed of the chips will not matter unless you have a fairly complex internal network, in which case you would know better and a. know your answer b. purchase neither of these products.

[FreshTube]

I have a Netgear R7000 and I have to say that it's a very good router combined with my 100 MBit/s glass fiber internet connection here in Germany. The Software is good too and it's stable.

 

But I would look if the Asus is the better choice because on Cnet the Asus just nailed the Wireless-N 2.4 Ghz range.

 

http://www.cnet.com/products/netgear-nighthawk-ac1900-smart-wi-fi-router-r7000/2/

 

On Smallnetbuilder the Netgear wins. 

 

http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wireless/wireless-reviews/32239-ac1900-first-look-netgear-r7000-a-asus-rt-ac68u

 

Take the cheaper one I think. I owned my Netgear in a offer on Amazon for 130€. 

 

Sorry for bad English I'm German I hope I could help you.