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Interesting - but I'm not sure what this gives me over something in a similar price range, for example:

http://www.amazon.com/RT-AC68U-Wireless-AC1900-Dual-Band-Gig...

Presumably either you know something about routers and want to enable QoS, install your own firmware, or use some other advanced feature - and you spend money on a decent router. Or you don't, and use whatever your ISP provides (which if it's bad, you blame the ISP for without thinking twice).

So perhaps this is the new router bundled with Google Fibre?

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This router works great. Firmware is open source, timely updated, nice performance and some functionalities are very usefull (ie: asus hosted dynamic dyn dns, OpenVPN support and TimeCapsule compataibility).

Google's router probably gives normal people a better UI. It's better to compare it to Apple's wifi router.

The AC68U is the perfect AP for the discerning user who enjoys going into the basement every two weeks to reboot things.

I've had mine for over a year now, and I've only had to reboot it 3 times - 4 if you count the time I unplugged it and moved to a new city.

I've had mine for a similar time frame and I've never needed to restart it, except to install updates. My cable modem goes out more often.

My biggest issue with this router has simply been the media server, however the wifi connections and vpn have always worked.

If you have to manually reboot something quarterly then it's a piece of shit. Your standards are way too low.

Why would you put your router in the basement? That's horrible for whole-house reception unless you have repeaters on each floor.

My TV is also in the basement and that's the most demanding wifi load I have.

I have a very similar model, the AC68P, and the only times I've had to reboot it since it was installed in March was for configuration changes, and that was through the web interface. Next time try rebooting your cable modem instead, maybe it's not the router that's to blame?

I have the batman router for more than a year and I've power cycled it once. Realistically I don't know if the problem was with the modem, the router or my computer.

I've had the predecessor, the AC66U, since March 2013.

I've never had to reboot it outside of firmware updates.

I suppose it's not the AC68U, but out of all of the high end Asus APs I've had, I don't think I've ever had a problem with one.

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I've installed countless of these for small businesses(N66U & AC66U & AC68Us) and haven't had any issues, some with over a year of uptime.

7 months, and never needed to reset it. 5 computers and 5 smartphones, and IPTV 12hs a day. Works well, without any problem.

anyone know how this compares to mikrotik's router which was recommended to me and I have in my cart about to purchase? http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BGIXOHQ

any suggestion on docsis3 modem?

You can't go wrong with the Motorola SB6141. It's 8x4 bands, and certified to work with pretty much every cable provider around.

Seems like a nice router, but the WiFi on that will be much slower - 2.4ghz only and no AC.

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