Although released a year apart from one another, the Asus RT-AC86U and the Synology RT2600ac will often come into mind as the top choices when selecting the best mid-to-high-end routers and even if at fist glance, each of these routers have targeted a different type of audience, both devices end up aiming at fulfilling the … Read more
The Asus RT-AC86U and the RT-AC88U (which is a bit older) are two of the most popular wireless routers from Asus, first, because both of these devices can offer a great wireless performance and a large variety of useful features and secondly, because they fall within the pricing sweet spot of what people are willing … Read more
The Asus RT-AC86U is one of the latest routers released by the Taiwanese company and it is among the first devices to support the newly developed AiMesh technology (which got out of the beta stage at the beginning of this year), but it also features some of the latest technologies that Asus has implemented into … Read more
The Asus Lyra and the Eero Second Generation are two of the latest WiFi systems to join the new generation of home networking devices, both of them taking advantage of the tri-band technology (so there’s an additional 5GHz radio band for a better handling of the connected devices and the backhaul traffic), but, while Eero … Read more
Asus did not immediately jump on the bandwagon of WiFi mesh systems and it seemed to take its time to carve the perfect set of devices which, when released, would dominate the market. Well, the Asus Lyra is not really the mesh WiFi systems’ Messiah and the manufacturer did not find the perfect balance between … Read more
The Asus RT-AC88U and the Netgear X4S are two of the most popular routers released in the last couple of years, both suitable for more demanding home networks (such as larger houses where there are lots of wireless clients), while also featuring some advanced technologies that will cater to the gaming community. The Netgear Nighthawk … Read more
The Asus RT-AC55U is an entry-level dual-band AC1200 wireless router and while it’s true that this isn’t a new device, it still remains relevant for a large portion of the market that doesn’t need the most powerful networking equipment in their homes and are happy with a modest, but stable router to handle their daily … Read more
Note: The review has been updated using the third version of Linksys WRT1900AC, the WRT1900ACS. Seems like yesterday that I received my first router, a Linksys WRT54G and there was this fascination with how to configure it in order to give its best, especially since the software was Open Source. Now, more than a decade later, Linksys gave … Read more
The ASUS RT-ACRH13 is one of the latest routers to be released by the Taiwanese company this year, with a clear focus towards the home users. It came as a surprise to see an attempt to include some of the latest technologies from the networking world into a rather inexpensive device (the RT-ACRH13 uses the … Read more
The networking market is in continuous transformation and through an ongoing process of auto-discovery. Routers and other type of networking equipment have evolved from delivering basic functionality to huge throughput numbers and creative technologies. While before, a wiring system was all that was needed, the shift towards the wireless communication gave birth to the BeamForming … Read more