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Is it worth buying an ASUS router over my stock ISP Wifi 7 router?

ILikeCoffee

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Hi, I'm from UK with EE FTTP Broadband (1Gb download, 110Mbs upload, PPPoE) and the router from them we're using is the EE Smart Hub Pro, now the confusing thing is on paper the specs of this router are surprisingly good, the SoC if I'm not mistaken is currently better than any ASUS model in terms of raw power/IPC (Correct me if I'm wrong)
  • 2.4 GHz: 4×4 MIMO
  • 5 GHz: 4×4 MIMO
  • 6 GHz: 4×4 MIMO
  • LAN ports: 4 × 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet
  • WAN port: 1 × 2.5 Gigabit WAN
  • SoC: Qualcomm IPQ9570 (Networking Pro series - 4x ARM Cortex-A73)
  • CPU: Quad-core 2.2 GHz ARM
My network set up is as follows: Fibre ONT > Cat6 > EE Smart Hub Pro > Cat6 > PC

What I'm noticing is sometimes in Halo MCC on Steam, players will occasionally teleport, jump around, rubberband in custom games and I'm not sure why.
Here are some speeds tests because I'm not sure what I'm looking for or how to test this.

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Your bottleneck is your internet connection, so no expensive router can change that.
Lag in games can come from the internet, for instance if you're playing with someone from the other side of the world, nothing you can do about that either.
 
Your bottleneck is your internet connection

Gigabit FTTP with 4ms baseline latency and under 10ms variation under stress is a "bottleneck" in games??? This is perfect quality line and very few ASUS routers have the specs to match the ISP gateway.
 

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