Asus RT N66 or AC66U ? IF offered around same price

[Moksha]

Am planning to get a router and I do a lot of browsing and planning for home studio/ music streaming.

In my area the cost of RT N66 (N900) and RT AC 66U (AC 1750) are costing almost the same due to some promo offer.

Could anyone with real experience offer insight ?

I've read articles and it's the cost factor that's got me in a twist.
Even the AC 1200 is in similar range.

I know apple has released AC gear and am an Apple user.

Thanks

 

[L&LD]

Of the choices you present:

I have the RT-N66U myself and some of my customers have multiple RT-AC66U's and one has the RT-AC56U.

If you want maximum stability with no fooling around right now: the RT-N66U won't disappoint with RMerlin 374.40 firmware.

If you want the highest 5GHz range right now (recommended for streaming) the RT-AC66U is my recommendation with the associated version of the RMerlin 374.40 firmware.

If you want the most performance from your router (i.e. you have a very high speed ISP plan), the RT-AC56U would be where I would start to test in my own environment (return/exchange if performance is not up to par) with the associated 374.40 firmware once again from RMerlin.



Of course, if you need or want the benefits of all the above, the RT-AC68U is the recommended buy with RMerlin 374.40 alpha4 (most stable firmware to date for this model).

The price may be higher - but if you're getting this for the next few years, the higher price becomes insignificant for the combined higher range, throughput and router performance (HW acceleration on or off) offered.

 

[TC777]

On my RT-N66U router the Shibby firmware is more stable. When I installed the Merlin firmware, within the first week the wireless signal stopped responding at least 4 times and I had to reboot the router each time.

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