However, with a price tag of over $500 for a two-unit kit or $300 for a single unit,

What? How? Why? 😱

Performance aside, this has to be up there with rat droppings on the list of things I don't want to see dotted around my home.

Sorry but I have to disagree with the Recommended score. Most of it I like, but the single 2.5 port in a higher end router nowadays isn't good enough. I'm not after a bunch of 10Gbps ports or anything but at least pair of 2.5 ports is really the minimum when priced above $300.

Stairmand:

Sorry but I have to disagree with the Recommended score. Most of it I like, but the single 2.5 port in a higher end router nowadays isn't good enough. I'm not after a bunch of 10Gbps ports or anything but at least pair of 2.5 ports is really the minimum when priced above $300.

While I agree with you on a feature level, I don't think we're there yet SoC wise. 2.5 Gbps and higher ports require more energy per port, and with these 24/7/365 devices .. energy consumption wise I see some hurdles. I'd much rather would have liked to see 6 GHz (6E) support for this mesh setup.

Hy Hillber from what I so in the review on the charts there is only an old TP-Link router (and only AC), but TP-link has some nice and fast routers and mesh systems. Maybe in time you will add some to the charts. It looks like an ASUS monopoly 🙂.

nicugoalkeper:

Hy Hillber from what I so in the review on the charts there is only an old TP-Link router (and only AC), but TP-link has some nice and fast routers and mesh systems. Maybe in time you will add some to the charts. It looks like an ASUS monopoly 🙂.

We're dependent on what manufacturers submit for review, tp-link doesn't seem to be even slightly interested to get their gear tested.

I switched to Fiber 2Gbps Interwebs recently and while it definitely was a little frustrating shopping for a router due to the lack of multi 2.5Gb ports I think I found a decent solution. I picked up the "Asus ROG Rapture GT-AX6000" which has dual 2.5Gb ports and a TRENDnet 2.5G 5 port switch. Should be a big upgrade from my RT-AC1900P which will probably just be a hardwired Access Point in the garage for the rest of its days. $400 dent in the wallet but that seems to be the going rate for all these higher end routers these days, hell some of the Mesh Networks I have seen hit 1.2k for 3 modules. Anyway hopefully this solution works out as I really like the Asus Router UI.

Hilbert Hagedoorn:

We're dependent on what manufacturers submit for review, tp-link doesn't seem to be even slightly interested to get their gear tested.

Thanks for clarifying that. Forgot about that 😛.

Need more Led is not obnoxious enough(i sure there option to turn it off?) performance is there i guess, but the price just no

Aside of professional custom setups on OPNSense/pfSense etc, Keenetics are still best in terms of WiFi penetration and firmware. Asus, though, has good single-click OpenVPN server. But not perfect, as lacks multi-factor auth. But it doesn't have multi-wan and multi-lan. Just failover dual-wan, where only one connection is working.

Stairmand:

Sorry but I have to disagree with the Recommended score. Most of it I like, but the single 2.5 port in a higher end router nowadays isn't good enough. I'm not after a bunch of 10Gbps ports or anything but at least pair of 2.5 ports is really the minimum when priced above $300.

I bought a cheaper RT-AX86U together with a Netgear QSW-1105-5T (really affordable 2.5 Gbit switch). But in my area, WAN speeds above 2.5Gbit are highly unlikely so I mainly upgraded to 2.5Gbit LAN to transfer files between devices a lot quicker. But tbh, unless you're running a NAS with SSD's or something, I don't see much point for a normal consumer to run beyond 2.5Gbit atm. 1Gbit to 2.5Gbit more than doubled my transfer speeds, but I'm already hitting the write/read limits of my mechanical HDD's 😀 Though if you're in an area that offers 2.5Gbit WAN I can imagine having 2 of those ports are more interesting.

But it doesn't have multi-wan and multi-lan. Just failover dual-wan, where only one connection is working..

You can tinker with VLAN's using Merlin firmware and SSH, but by default it's not available in the UI. You can for instance use the "Guest WiFi" options together with some more stuff in SSH to create a trunk port on the WAN and have multiple SSID's tied to multiple VLAN's.

Corrupt^:

You can tinker with VLAN's using Merlin firmware and SSH, but by default it's not available in the UI. You can for instance use the "Guest WiFi" options together with some more stuff in SSH to create a trunk port on the WAN and have multiple SSID's tied to multiple VLAN's.

Keenetics have it out of box. You can add WANs and LANs (not just VLAN) just in a single click. You can set port per network and enabled own SSID for each LAN in a single click as well. And you can assign WAN priority for each LAN and even device in just 3 clicks, as it open separate page. And unlike with Asus, all WANs are working and accessible.

coth:

Keenetics have it out of box. You can add WANs and LANs (not just VLAN) just in a single click. You can set port per network and enabled own SSID for each LAN in a single click as well. And you can assign WAN priority for each LAN and even device in just 3 clicks, as it open separate page. And unlike with Asus, all WANs are working and accessible.

Sure, but a lot of the mid range "gamer" routers do support a lot of things as long as you're willing to tinker with them for a reasonable price. Tbh if I'd had to spend € 500 on a router, I would rather start looking into Enterprise stuff and slap a decent Access Point in the network.