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    Looking to upgrade from a "home" class router to a "business" class router

    I ended up building a pfsense router out of an old i7 with 2 NIC cards on the board. Been working like a champ ever since. Just dealing with the cruddy service we get from Cox and all their outages and "excuses" of increased bandwidth demand from covid. Other than that I would certainly...
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    Looking to upgrade from a "home" class router to a "business" class router

    I pay for GigaBlast internet and I get USUALLY the speeds I pay for. Speeds are dependent on my network load, time of day, that other stuff the ISP disclaims. So that is good. I average 500 at the lowest during "peak" times, 800-900 on the better side. I probably have about 40 wireless devices...
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    Looking to upgrade from a "home" class router to a "business" class router

    As the title says I am currently running an Asus RT-AC88U running Merlin-WRT 384.19 . It has been a strong performer for me up until now. As my network load and device load grows I am finding that I am "killing" the router every few days. It just bogs down to the point that the network is...
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