Need a new Asus router- need a suggestion

[ColinTaylor]

Correct. Requirements: VPN, Suricata, Squid reverse proxy and ad blocking. All packages simultaneous working.

Then I suggest you stick with your current setup. Trying to do all of that on an all-in-one wireless router is never going to be as good as your i3-7350K. If you need better WiFi get a different access point.

 

[Patrick0525]

Then I suggest you stick with your current setup. Trying to do all of that on an all-in-one wireless router is never going to be as good as your i3-7350K. If you need better WiFi get a different access point.

My initial question looking for a router was incorrectly stated. I should have stated looking for the latest ASUS router that will be used exclusively as an access point. I have not intent to ever use it as router since I have a pfsense box. Sorry about the confusion.

 

[L&LD]

My RT-AC68U is working fine. What is the latest desirable router for Asus-Merlin firmware?

The RT-AX88U showed improvements over the RT-AC86U, even with just AC clients when I began testing a week or so ago. As an AP, this would be about the best you can hope for, today, for an Asus + RMerlin solution.

 

[ColinTaylor]

My initial question looking for a router was incorrectly stated. I should have stated looking for the latest ASUS router that will be used exclusively as an access point. I have not intent to ever use it as router since I have a pfsense box. Sorry about the confusion.

If you're only using it as a wireless access point then there's no particular reason for it to be running Merlin's firmware over stock firmware. The wireless code is the same.

 

[dlandiss]

He wants it through a VPN connection.

Yeah, finally figured that out. I've never understood how consumer grade routers get all of that done, or why.

 

[Patrick0525]

Sharing pfsense's performance using speedtest and available packages: Suricata, Squid reverse-proxy, ad-blocking and open-vpn. CPU usage 49%.

 

[ColinTaylor]

Sharing pfsense's performance using speedtest and available packages: Suricata, Squid reverse-proxy, ad-blocking and open-vpn. CPU usage 49%.

Too small to read.

 

[Patrick0525]

https://www.flickr.com/photos/69816966@N08/49239039418/in/dateposted-public/

 

[gattaca]

If you just want a WAP, then the RT-AC68U/1900U have worked very well for me. I have a hand-me-down approach where I move my oldest router to be 1 of the 2 WAP and keep at opposite ends of the house. I keep the best router guarding the front door (RT-AC86U) which lives in the basement, hence the 2 WAPS. This also offloads the wireless processing from the main router. Peace. You can find these used on eBay for good prices.