WRT54G/GL running DD-WRT. Started buying them in 2004? 2005? and installed them in all of my family's houses and had them VPN back to a server at my house. Ran perfectly before I replaced them with Ubiquiti gear about 10 years ago. Sure, by that time they were getting a bit long in the tooth, but they still ran and ran well.
Same. I had updated the firmware to one of the open source ones and it just keep running. It wasn't until I got "too many" newer devices in the house that overloaded it (random devices would drop off with no warning) that I needed to replace it.
I relaxed it with a beefy ASUS, but that thing died after like 18 months. Since then, I use access points and pass everything through an actual firewall... No more consumer grade "routers" for me.
Asus RT-AC66U B1. It was the minimum model I could find that would USB tether a cellular hotspot or phone for the WAN source. I hardly ever do the cellular tethering, but I wanted that capability. I also run a USB hard disk on the USB as a ghetto NAS.
It wasn't the latest model when I got it, but It has been the rock solid best router I ever owned. I can't remember the last time I had to restart it. I don't like the UI, but I haven't looked at it in years.
I got FIOS a few months ago. The stupid FIOS router USB does not support cellular tethering or hard disk storage, only USB power supply. I have the Asus WAN port connected to one of the FIOS router LAN ports.
Otherwise my needs are not much. I don't need mesh. The house isn't that big.
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