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27 March 2018
Great coverage for a large home
1 of 1 found this helpful This router has the greatest signal strength across my one-story home. It's four years old but still a great design. I also have the ASUS RT-86U that was released last summer which is just as nice.
There are two keys to reliability for this router. Do NOT use the Smart Connect feature which can cause dropped connections. Give each band a unique SSID and connect each device to one of them. The router is fine, while Smart Connect is not ready for prime time.
Also, do NOT install the latest firmware. Install the one just before it. As others experienced, the latest firmware has some fail-to-connect issues while the one before it does not. Once I figured out which one to use, it has been rock solid and plenty fast on a 300Mbps cable connection.
The router was $300 when new but about half-price now. Everything arrived in good order via Fedex.