Review on 📶 ASUS RT-AC68P: High-performance AC1900 Dual-Band Gigabit Wireless Router by Gerardo Cibrian

I bought an ASUS RT-N66U router a few years ago when 802.11n was all the rage and I was fine with it at the time . Compared to the cheap Netlink routers I've used before, it was stable, fast, and feature-rich. However, I had recently connected gigabit fiber to my house and it turned out that the router couldn't go faster than about 150Mbps on its uplink, so I figured it was time for an upgrade. I bought this router on faith because I was happy with my old ASUS. and I was terribly disappointed. First, the user interface hasn't changed much compared to their older models. It's not *terrible*, but it's incredibly slow and clunky compared to current Synology or Unifi routers. Each page takes a few seconds to load, and you can only log into the router from one computer at a time. If you try to log in from another computer, you just get a useless error message saying you don't have permission to do so. Excellent. However, one of the nice new additions to this model is the ability to create graphs showing traffic analysis over time. Want to know how much bandwidth you're spending on different services or websites? Now you can! The downside is that enabling this feature will slow down the performance of the router. With it disabled, I could get around 950Mbps over my connection, which is pretty reasonable. Enabling this feature reduces it to about 300Mbps. Completely unacceptable. To top it off, I also encountered a memory leak. I'm not sure what caused it, but at least once a day the router would run out of RAM, fill up the log files with error messages, and the WiFi driver would crash, resulting in all WiFi clients failing to connect at all . . The only way to get it usable again was to restart the device. I don't know exactly what caused it; Updating to the latest firmware and attempting a factory reset didn't work. Ten years ago this might have been a good home router, but there are far better options now.