ASUS RT-AC68U - any good?

[infernox]

Hello,

Reading reviews of this router seems a little bleugh.

I would wish to install some custom firmware on it, does anyone own this router? How is it?

Finding a decent router to replace my current hunk of rubbish is real difficult.

 

[Orcvader]

Using it right now, official firmware. There's Merlin which offers a little extra stuff but I didn't feel the need to flash it.

It's been rock solid stable for me with no issues, good wifi coverage and handles all my devices perfectly fine even if some are saturating the bandwidth from LAN tranfers.

I think it's the DSL-AC68 that has issues, mostly with the VDSL modem and FTTC but recent firmware seems to have made it better.

 

[Trox]

I use this router, have done for over 3 years. Currently on the Asus firmware which is excellent now but I have used Merlin in the past.

My only complaint is the power switch decided to break, apparently that's the norm for Asus routers... Fixed it myself!