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I'm undecided between asus rt-ac66n or asus rt-n66u Help me to choose

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OK, thanks, that helps put it in perspective, and it's about what I figured.

It seems to be anyone's guess as to when there will be 802.11ac clients, especially in terms of being built into laptops and handheld devices, but it seems a ways off.

Right now the RT-66NU can be had for $60 less than the RT-AC66U, so that one probably makes the most sense for now.

My real goal is to be able to support the throughput I get from my ISP (currently ~36Mb), with some room to scale up as that increases (I wouldn't be surprised if it is up to 50 or even 100Mb within a year or two). My current router (RT-N16 running a version of Tomato (Toastman) from a year ago) doesn't even come close, so it's a bottleneck (for wireless clients). In addition to the throughput, I'm concerned about VPN capability (preferably not PPTP), dual-WAN, and Firewalling. I may also want to explore QoS if it gets to the point where it's stable.

[I hope this is all closely enough related to the OP's question that it doesn't come across as hi-jacking the thread :)]
 
Right now the RT-66NU can be had for $60 less than the RT-AC66U, so that one probably makes the most sense for now

I've had to return multiple N66U because it wasn't playing nice with my modem + ISP. Picked up an AC66U for only $30 more and it's working much better (especially on 5GHz) and is far more stable thus far (not a single connection drop-out). 5GHz would NEVER work on the N66U (crappy range)

Also noticed that it runs much cooler than the N66U as well. If you can find the AC66U at a price not that far off from the N66U - I would definitely get that model instead.
 
hi friends,
I'm undecided on what to buy asus router.
asus rt-ac66n to 180 euro or asus rt-n66u to 132 €??

my fears on the model rt-ac66u are as follows:
STEP 1 I'm afraid that the frequency of 5 GHz is more 'harmful to health than the 2.4 ghz.
STEP 2 wlan standard ac and 'still draft
STEP 3 the new router does not support the firmware tomato etc etc
STEP 4 I fear that my wifi devices operating at 2.4 ghz see Sansung galaxy s2 netbook asus 10,005 d multimedia player Xtreamer work worse than the other router rt-n66u.

what do you advise me??
thank you very much and sorry for my poor English.
cordial greetings hdv

I'm undecided between asus rt-ac66n to 180 euro or asus rt-n66u
Help me to choose

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Easy. Seeing as there are hardly any 802.11ac wireless adapters available on the retail level go with the RT-N66U. It's cheaper and plenty fast enough. If you need more speed then the new 500mps powerline Ethernet is your friend. See now wasn't that easy?
 

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