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Will look into that was looking at BB since there is one local to them and figured one of those 2 be easiest to pick up . Never though of the other option

The 5ghz band is is linked to there phones and TVs the 2.4ghz is laptops and a desktop computer think its a gigahertz card . The router is 3 years old so time for a upgrade anyway just want sometbing reliable for them have read Asus has some trouble with the 5 band

Hello all Merry Christmas . Just a quick question for the Experts my parents router a Asus RT-AC68R lost the 5 GHZ channel the other day so need a new one . They don't need anything fancy or run the lastest and greatest firmware was either going to go with a Netgear R7000 Nighthawk or a...

Been running the new firmware since it came out on the 13th has been rock solid and all ports show stealth no problems here .

Its because a week ago Best Buy had the wrong price on the router and sold out of them it was $119 they were sold out online and all the stores I checked just taking them time to get them back in stock .Asus dosent ship them to the stores they come from BB wharehouse's just checked...

I picked up 2 from BB all they had left .I checked online and stores every best buy within the state was sold out . If it was a mistake it was a costley one lord knows how many they sold at that price .

Amazon is still selling it for $194.83

Thanks I have been checking the Labels also at BB and a couple computer shops all seem to be A1 also. Guess it was just bad information was just making sure. I thought maybe they had changed the radio's or something after the whole Netgear ordeal

I didn't think there was either but read it in a couple different reviews on BB and Amazon just asking the good folk's here if they had heard of it .

Does anyone know what the difference is between the hardware version 1 and version 2 ?

Yes the Nighthawk is 1ghz and the Asus is 800mhz check out the router ranker for the comparison . How often is the 5ghz band dropping ?

How long have you had the AC68R ? You sure you are running the latest firmware from the website the newest is 3.0.0.4.374_583 ? The Nighthawk has been having the same signal degradation also on both the 5 and 2.4 Bands so don't expect the Nighthawk to be flawless either .

If you read the reviews on amazon be careful wit ones you read on the Asus the 66u and the 68u are in the same reviews you have to look at each persons and see which one there talking about .One thing I didnt like about the Asus was how hot it ran the nighthawk runs lukewarm compared to it

I decided Id give them both a fair test and I ran all kinda speed and distance test's everyday for a week with 3 different Laptop's and 2 Phones. The Nighthawk come out on top in all the tests. I was amazed at the distance it got and still had a good signal .

L&LD I bought both routers around the 10th of December and ran the Asus first and im not sure what firmware was on it it was the newest availabe cause I remember upgrading it. The Netgear was the 1.0.2.164 firmware that was on the Nighthawk the first week I ran it and it was a few days...