
GL.iNet
GL-MT6000 (Flint 2)
OpenWrt enthusiast's choice; good value, but lacks 6GHz.

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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.
Nighthawk 500RAXE. It’s been flawless so far.
I went with a discounted high end wifi 6e router a couple months ago and have been very pleased. Netgear nighthawk RAXE500
Netgear Nighthawk AX12 is really great router and can easily handle more than 10 users. Though if you want to change and If budget is not an issue then, I would suggest you to get Mesh Router with Wifi 6 or 6E like TP Link Deco series or Netgear Orbi series.
Yes, definitely Netgear Nighthawk AX12 will perform way better than TP link.
You were right. The Netgear blows the TP Link out of the water!
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

GL.iNet
GL-MT6000 (Flint 2)
OpenWrt enthusiast's choice; good value, but lacks 6GHz.

Ubiquiti
Dream Router 7
Advanced management, but limited Wi-Fi 7 range, SFP+ issues.

Ubiquiti
Dream Machine Series
Comprehensive control, stable for large homes, but slow support.

Ubiquiti
UniFi Dream Router (UDR)
Modular, user-friendly, but tricky advanced setup, poor penetration.

GL.iNet
Beryl AX (GL-MT3000)
Travel king, versatile, OpenWrt, but bulky power adapter.