Which wireless router to pick?

[ivan2340]

Hey guys i'm in a little dilemma, i'm not sure which of these wireless routers i should pick, i have had a good experience with only Netgear routers so far but haven't used any of the other brands eventhough i have heard some very good things about ASUS or Cisco/Linksys.

 

Maybe some of you have some experience with those routers i picked and can recommend me the right one

 

I would like to get as much of a performance as possible while still maintaining a good Price/Perf ratio without spending a lot more than a 100$

I'm basically gonna use Internet (up to 30MBps) and do some 4k streaming as well as setup a network storage so a good router wouldnt hurt

Also i like to have the ability to tweak alot so a very restricted Firmware wouldn't be that appealing to me.

 

If you could choose one of those which one would you choose?

 

Netgear R6200:

http://www.amazon.de/dp/B008PSEEM4

 

ASUS RT-AC56U:

http://www.amazon.de/dp/B00D7S1CCM

 

Linksys EA6300:

http://www.amazon.de/dp/B00BQ9UCY8

 

if those 2 aren't that "good enough" I might think about spending some more money, in that case I'd think about those (eventhough thats almost too expensive..):

 

Netgear R6300:

http://www.amazon.de/dp/B0084DMYT0

 

ASUS RT-AC66U:

http://www.amazon.de/dp/B00897IKNK

 

My current information is from here

 

I hope to get some quick responses 

Thanks in advance

 

Ivan

 

[AMICLG]

Do NOT get a Linksys (especially the EA6300), the firmware is terrible and will throttle all of your devices, go for a Netgear R7000 or an Asus AC66U.

[Guest Kloaked]

Do NOT get a Linksys (especially the EA6300), the firmware is terrible and will throttle all of your devices, go for a Netgear R7000 or an Asus AC66U.

 

Wot.

 

I've used Linksys for years and never experienced that.

[TheInverseKey]

Do NOT get a Linksys (especially the EA6300), the firmware is terrible and will throttle all of your devices, go for a Netgear R7000 or an Asus AC66U.

 

Mine died after 5 months and went out and bought an ASUS router best one so far.

[AMICLG]

Wot.

 

I've used Linksys for years and never experienced that.

The new EA series are junk and almost none of the support DD-WRT/OpenWRT to fix the shit firmware. Belkin now owns Linksys and they don't care about fixing them, I've owned three EA6300 and they've all had the same problem of throttling devices and having very poor range also most of them have a back door that wasn't patched either. Linus got rid of his EA6900 because it was garbage and got the AC66U and he hsn't had any problems with it.

 

Mine died after 5 months and went out and bought an ASUS router best one so far.

This^^^

[ivan2340]

Ok so Linksys is out of the contest, how about the other two "cheap" ones? The RT-AC56U seems to be better than the RT-N66U while being cheaper AND supporting wireless AC, also better specs, and its not as expensive as the RT-AC66U, what do you think?

 

And thanks for the replies so far