home router

[slgrieb]

I'd agree that Cisco's commercial stuff remains good, but I was really thinking about their SOHO line, which really is pretty dreadful. For a home system, I'd think that something like an Asus RT-AC68U, or Netgear R7500-100NAS are good routers. Several routers in this sort of price range offer excellent speed and coverage, QOS, and simple setup and configuration.

[ilovetheusers]

I never worked with the soho stuff, though looking over it, I am guessing that these are the modem/router units? I had a few smaller vendors that used cisco units for broadband modems, seemed OK enough as they were able to gain remote access over them compared to most podunk DSL/Cable providers. Made life tough for me as I would as the user to reboot the "cisco" and I'd get, "Which one?" Still, any combo modem/whatever is usually something that does the job but offers zero flexibility.

For home stuff, I use whatever is cheap that works. Use linksys now because I had some laying about. Honestly I've never had any issues with them and have found them to0 be fairly reliable for home use, albeit a bit slow sometimes. But then again, cisco is the king of making the hardware do ONLY what it needs to do. They love limited shelf life, it's their bread n butter.

Used a dlink that someone sent to me at work and the boss told me to take it home. Didn't work worth a poop for me as laptops would need reboot before they would connect after sleeping and my iphone would never connect to wireless. Wired worked great, just wifi was goofy.

Anywho, You're dead on about the asus stuff. All they make is performance everything. You honestly can't go wrong buying their products for home use. IMO.