Personally I would stay with the RAX43 unless your internet speed plan is above 1 gbps. I would look to wire in (eg ethernet cable cat 6 or 8) as many devices as feasible because ethernet is full duplex vs half duplex for wifi
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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
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I've had it a couple of weeks now. 2 bedroom terraced house, has been great. Full coverage.
Same, my RAX40 worked alright for a bit under a year but eventually developed a problem where one port would just have 20% packet loss all the time till I switched the cable to a different port, which would be fine for about a week and then the problem would start again. Then, it started dying for 30 minutes to an hour every day. Switched to an ASUS RT-AX55 and been smooth sailing for two years or so now. Flint 3 is probably the next step.
I currenttly have a Wifi6 Netgear Nighthawk. I just upgrade my ISP speed from Fiber 1GB to Fiber 2GB, and this router does not support a 2GB input (only 1), so I want to take advantage of the speed.
Now, everyone here says Ubuquity this and that, but, I do not care about network management, or really customizing it or setting up a ton of different things. What I care about is speed, and coverage for my entire house.
This current single router (that is positioned at the center-about of my house), covers the entirety of our 2000 sq foot house. Outside the house like on teh patio the signal starts to get dropped. I am using all 4 of its LAN ports, 2 for gaming computers, and 2 for gaming devices. We have multiple 4K tv's running off Wifi, we have at any given moment 2-4 people all gaming with no lag at all (one of them is on a 1600 mbps wifi 6 card that seems to work really well), we have many cell phones, ovens, fridges, whatever, there's like 100 devices connected to this thing through wifi I don't even know them all, split amongst all 3 of its bands. We have ZERO issues and its been a great router. I simply want to upgrade from 1GBS to 2GBS signal so we continue to have even less issues and download things faster and future proof ourselves as new devices come out.
Does this Ubiquity (UDR7?) router fit the bill? I don't really want to buy any mesh or extension pieces or whatever, because it doesn't seem like I need them, if this single 3 year old Netgear router handles all this pretty well. Otherwise I'm looking at Asus ROG wifi7 routers, may be the new Nighthawk, though that doesn't seem the best anymore (?), but overall I've liked Netgear honestly, they've been my last 3 routers.
Yes the ISP gave me a year deal for the same price as 1GB, I get 2GB, but then realized my router doesn't actually support it. We do game a lot, all of us, and there is the occasional lag, though I'm not sure that's us. Honestly 1GB has been totally fine so far.
Yeah I'm not going to be setting up VLANs or segment devices or any of that, I'm not really that involved with the network. Just want everyone and every device to be happy out the box 😄
Interesting, thanks. I'm trying to avoid spending a bunch of money which is why traditionally I just went with a single powerful router. Also it helps managing the network in general, though I try to avoid that as I know just the bare minimum of messing with routers.
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