[psycopotimas]

I’d like to just second what Cozak has said.

Last week i was lucky enough to sell my nearly two year old DSL AC88U for over £150. To sum the router up from a dsl sync point of view it was rock solid but as we all no the options on the router side were extremely limited and the dropping wifi was excruciating.

I have replaced it this week with a vmg8924-b10a (bridged) for £15 from fleebay coupled with a RT AC86U (merlin firmware) for £150 from amazon so all in total a lot less than a 88u on its own.

Firstly the vmg syncs 4.5Mbps higher (my 88u already synced at 85Mbps) with no errors what so ever except for a few hundred FEC over a 7 day period.

But the 86U with merlin firmware is just out of this world in comparison.

Being able to route specific devices through a vpn thats capable of running at the full 80Mbps is amazing, my french wife is so happy that every device in the house is ‘british’ except for her french streaming stick so she can access her local equivalent of iplayer etc.

I have waited for Asus to come good with this router with stability/adding the features promised on the box but its seriously not worth it. The firmwares have all but dried up.

Easiest decision you will ever make, thank you to the forum for recommending the 86u to me!

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[psycopotimas]

Hi guys,

I have been following this and previous site for a long time now as an owner of this dsl router.

I’m not really happy with the performance of it on wifi/vpn/iptv etc and the speed of the firmware updates to address poor/missing features seems to have dried up. Far to many problems for my liking

I have a HG612 3B and was wondering if you guys thought this would be a better option coupled with a more capable router. My question would be this, what router would you recommend for say less than £200. Also is the HG612 still relevant or would an upgrade of this be required too? I have read lots of reviews but have no idea.

 

Any input would be great, apologies if i have posted this in the wrong place

 

Liam

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