Gigabyte16384
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Generally speaking, looking for what is currently considered the optimal (As in the best balance between stability and performance) for an Asus AX88U running the latest Merlin firmware. I've been fiddling with this thing for months now and I keep getting this feeling that I'm doing something wrong.
If it helps, we live in an apartment complex and there are about 17 wireless devices that are N, AC, and AX spread across the 2.4 and 5GHz bands with 5 wired devices being primarily gigabit. It’s an Xfinity/Comcast internet with 400 Down/10 up.
There's about 23 other routers visible from this spot if that helps at all. 16 of them appear to have strong signals from here. They don't appear to have their 2.4 and 5 GHz Access points separated, so realistically, it's probably that many on both bands.
In any case, we work, we watch movies, play games, do some weird things that pushes the network's ability to manage data quickly. Gamestream/remote play and Virtual Desktop/Air Link are very sensitive to the speed and stability of the network. Things start acting up and everything is pretty much unplayable until it recovers.
General usage is a mixture of things other than general web browsing. Gaming, streaming, remote desktop, Nvidia Gamestream/Steam Remote play, Virtual Desktop/Air Link, etc. Of course, there's also the usual video streaming stuff, but it's that weird latency sensitive things to worry about.
VPN would be a nice thing to have for stuff like running a Minecraft server, but that's a bonus feature compared to getting everything running as good as it can get for our network conditions.
Also, is Firewall: Drop IPv6 neighbour solicitation broadcasts still necessary with Comcast?
Any thoughts or suggestions for getting the best results from this router in these conditions?
If it helps, we live in an apartment complex and there are about 17 wireless devices that are N, AC, and AX spread across the 2.4 and 5GHz bands with 5 wired devices being primarily gigabit. It’s an Xfinity/Comcast internet with 400 Down/10 up.
There's about 23 other routers visible from this spot if that helps at all. 16 of them appear to have strong signals from here. They don't appear to have their 2.4 and 5 GHz Access points separated, so realistically, it's probably that many on both bands.
In any case, we work, we watch movies, play games, do some weird things that pushes the network's ability to manage data quickly. Gamestream/remote play and Virtual Desktop/Air Link are very sensitive to the speed and stability of the network. Things start acting up and everything is pretty much unplayable until it recovers.
General usage is a mixture of things other than general web browsing. Gaming, streaming, remote desktop, Nvidia Gamestream/Steam Remote play, Virtual Desktop/Air Link, etc. Of course, there's also the usual video streaming stuff, but it's that weird latency sensitive things to worry about.
VPN would be a nice thing to have for stuff like running a Minecraft server, but that's a bonus feature compared to getting everything running as good as it can get for our network conditions.
Also, is Firewall: Drop IPv6 neighbour solicitation broadcasts still necessary with Comcast?
Any thoughts or suggestions for getting the best results from this router in these conditions?