RT-AC3200 Gigabit WAN Performance

[coldkick]

Tomorrow I'll be getting gibabit internet service installed and was wondering if anyone had experience with the routing performance on gigabit with the latest merlin build. The numbers from the early tests on the site review show a low 725Mbps. Is this still the case? Is it worth keeping the router or should I sell it and go for the Netgear R7000 for its rated 930Mbps WAN-LAN?

Thanks in advance.

 

[System Error Message]

in order to get gigabit WAN performance you must use hardware NAT which limits what you can do which applies to all routers that use hardware NAT.

 

[L&LD]

Myself, I would choose the RT-AC3200 mostly because of the continuous support from Asus over many years after they introduce a model and of course for the support from RMerlin and his excellent work too.

The one way WAN to LAN or the LAN to WAN is not the metric I would be looking at either; it would be the Total Simultaneous, where the Asus is also slightly ahead of the R7000, btw.

Overall, the Asus is the better hardware today and supports more clients with it's multiple radios. The R7000 does have a bonus of having an XVortex fork of the RMerlin firmware (for now), but no guarantee that it will be supported in the future.

While individual clients can connect at a maximum of AC1900 class rates on both routers, I would still be favoring the RT-AC3200 at this point.

Of course, buying both and returning the lesser one after testing in your environment is the best way to know which of these two routers will be better for your uses.

 

[coldkick]

Thanks for the responses!
A little more info:
I have full cat6 patch ethernet throughout the house so I'm future proofed in that regard The first three ethernet outputs on the router would go to the three computers in the house, and the fourth would extend to a gigabit network switch with 8 ports for the rest of the devices. Any product that has ethernet ports, will be hard routed.

EDIT: PPPoE FFTH. I just found a thread that there was bad performance issues, resolved?

See: http://www.snbforums.com/threads/gigabit-service-provisions-and-optimizations.26279/

 

[chudak]

Thanks for the responses!
A little more info:
I have full cat6 patch ethernet throughout the house so I'm future proofed in that regard The first three ethernet outputs on the router would go to the three computers in the house, and the fourth would extend to a gigabit network switch with 8 ports for the rest of the devices. Any product that has ethernet ports, will be hard routed.

EDIT: PPPoE FFTH. I just found a thread that there was bad performance issues, resolved?

See: http://www.snbforums.com/threads/gigabit-service-provisions-and-optimizations.26279/

Can you elaborate in what city you are getting gigabit service (I know that San Francisco should get one soon), from what ISP and at what price?

Thx

 

[coldkick]

Can you elaborate in what city you are getting gigabit service (I know that San Francisco should get one soon), from what ISP and at what price?

Thx

Watford, Ontario, Canada. Brooke Telecom,
$100 for 1Gbps down and 10Mbps up.
They couldn't give me a good reason for the low upload but I assume it's so they can charge a ton for the business plans which are symmetrical. Residential can buy more upload for $1 a Mbps
Here's the plans:
http://brooketel.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Internet-Speed-Chart-Website1.jpg