I had a similar one. I fucking hated it. It had this extremely overbloated operating system that ate like 90% of the processor and 80% of it ram doing nothing. It introduced ~25 ms of latency, extreme jitter and dropped like 10 percent of my packets... Over ethernet...
It was like xm1000 or smthn like that. Absolute dogshit.
Edit: it was a "Netgear Nighthawk XR1000" apparently. Miss remembered it being asus cuz red and black gamer aesthetic.
One of the best purchases I've ever made. I basically stopped playing my PS5 altogether until I bought the Portal the day it was released. Now I play all the time so I'm actually getting my money's worth out of my PS5 now. I much prefer handheld gaming, my Switch was almost never played on my TV, and the Portal gives me a handheld PS5.
It definitely needs a good network though. It worked pretty well on my old Netgear XR1000 but that piece of junk crapped out on me. It doesn't work so well on my Unifi UDR7, which breaks my heart because it's an otherwise amazing router, but I inherited an old Asus AX92U and I set that up as a dedicated network for just my PS5 and Portal. I use a separate VLAN on the Unifi for the Asus and have my wifi channels set apart to keep congestion at a minimum. It works amazingly well with my setup, you'd never know it was being streamed.
What about over Ethernet? I used to have an Asus Wifi 6 router as my main router, and it was scoring a low D.
Now, I have Nighthawk XR1000 (off the recommendation from that Waveform Test site) and even my hardwired Desktop is scoring B+.
i've had nothing but problems with my net gear wi-fi 7, after few weeks stuff buffers for split second, social media doesn't load immediately, i also have the net gear wi-fi 6 AX5400 router and works fine. seems walmarts website also has allot of complaints about wi-fi 7, and seeing that you actually have to have devices that use wi-fi 7, which technically none do, im going back to wi-fi 6, ether a new net gear router from amazon or MSI gaming routers or something.
I have a nighthawk ax5400 and it's great. You might need the ethernet adapter depending on your starlink version. I have a version 2 and I required one.
But...why? Do you have a massive home and don't think the ATT router will cover it? This is usually the only reason that actually makes sense to get your own these days.
I would recommend getting the ATT hardware. These are usually very good hardware, and if anything goes wrong you call ATT to have them replace it or send a tech out.
If you buy your own router you have to set it up yourself, figure out your own issues. From what I hear the hardware ATT uses is comparable to a lot of the $300+ Netgear Nighthawk routers.
If you still want to buy your own, and know how to support wifi/set everything up/deal with issues (ATT probably will not help you if you have your own router), etc then get a good Netgear Nighthawk router. I personally wouldn't buy anything less than a AX5400 but that's going to be fairly identical to the BG320 that ATT is going to install and service for $10/mo.
Not to mention that if ATT releases new hardware for their internet, you can usually upgrade it for free if you still have their service.
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