I am in a 3 bedroom house. House is Long ways, the router is in opposite side of house. I have 2/3 bars in wifi signal on 5hz. Other routers might have 1/3 bars. Because it goes through several walls. Other routers. Wifi effect in my gaming ping. Where as rs700 wasn’t doing that. I had raxe500 netgear and au82 asus or something. Web browsing was fine, just gaming issues. I tried maybe two other routers wifi7 as well, but I wanted fast ping. Rs700 ping is like 16-20 ping for my gaming. From Brisbane to Sydney maybe. Brisbane to Brisbane is like 6-7ping.
Brand only matters for the ui you like. Ausu tends to have more controls, netgear is the more "user friendly", tplink is the half way point.
Netgear tends to ship with netgear armor or what ever they call it. Good but annoying that once its on you pretty much have to do a reset to factory to get rid of it .
Netgear and sus will let you fully control through the web ui and limited controls on a app so you'd have both.
I never used the tplink app if they have one so I dont know about how it works.
That said, your requirements seem to be wifi 6 and longevity. So really any netgear AFTER r8000 would do what you want.
Netgear:
R7xxx <-- no
Rax50<-- yes
So as only as a 2018 ax8;
Ax8/ax12
Rax40, rax50, rax200, ect
Asus:
Rt-ACxx<-- no
Rt-AXxx<--yes
Rt-ax88u
Gt-ax11000
Rt-ax92u
Rt-ax58u
Been running the ASUS AX6000 for like 2 years now and its been solid for my setup. Got jellyfin running on a mini pc plus some other services and never had any drops or weird connection issues
The gl.inet stuff can be hit or miss - i had one of there older models that would randomly reboot under load which was annoying as hell. For around 200 you might also want to check out the netgear nighthawk ax12 if you can find it on sale. Way more reliable than budget wifi 7 options imo
Also make sure your not getting interference from neighbors - sometimes the 6ghz bands on wifi 7 routers get wonky in dense areas
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