ASUS RT-AC87U AC2400 Dual Band Gigabit WiFi Router, Aiprotection Lifetime Security by Trend Micro, Adaptive Qos, Parental Control

Have had this for a couple months. I subscribed to a VPN service (VyprVPN), so I'm leveraging the router's VPN client capabilities to route most of the devices in my house through a VPN (using the OpenVPN protocol) in order to protect my privacy from my ISP and to limit my ISP's ability to throttle internet speeds based on what IP addresses I'm connected to (like Sling TV, Netflix, Hulu,etc.).I started out using the ASUSWRT firmware (stock ASUS), but then, after some research, switched to ASUSWRT MERLIN because I needed to be able to do policy-based routing (I'm routing traffic from most of the devices on my LAN through the VPN, but have a couple I need to send out unencrypted via the WAN to my ISP). ASUSWRT MERLIN, wonderfully, has this functionality, and it's really robust --- but a huge note of caution here --- as of the writing of this review, the two most recent versions of ASUS MERLIN (380.68.2 and 380.68.0) appear to have a serious bug whereby the VPN portion of the UI irretrievably crashes as soon as you implement any policy-based routing. After a couple of hours of trying to figure out what the problem was to no avail, as a last resort I flashed version 380.67.0 onto the router and then everything worked fine. Found out later from the release notes (should have read them earlier!) there was a major redesign of the VPN portion of the UI for version 380.68.0 --- that's where the problem must have been introduced. Hopefully, this'll be addressed in a future release (they come out every month or two).Otherwise, this router has been great. With its dual core 1,000 Mhz processors, the VPN client using 256-bit OpenVPN encryption (with VyprVPN) has great throughput. The wireless works great, on both bands. I've got four SSIDs running -- two of these for guests (you can limit users of guest networks to internet access only, and keep them out of your intranet). Wireless signal strength and connectivity has been good, even in my old house that has plaster walls (the wire mesh behind the plaster seriously impedes any wireless signals). In the same room as the router, I've got a computer with a Rosewill RNX-AC1900PCE, 802.11AC Dual Band AC1900 PCI Express WiFi Adapter / Wireless Adapter / Network Card and, on the 5G band, it's consistently connecting to the router at speeds over 1 gigabit --- pretty cool. The router's UI is really well-designed and simple to use (perfect if you're not super router-savvy). Finally, the router's reliability has been outstanding --- in two months, nothing has ever dropped out and I've never had to reboot the router. Overall, I'm really pleased. :)

I was in the process of replacing my tired and overworked DIR-655 and I wanted the latest and greatest. I was not disappointed with this purchase.My current configuration with this router is that I have it bridged with my Motorola SB6121.I live in a 2 story townhome and I needed to wirelessly connect a Smart TV, 2 Laptops, XBOX360, PS3, 2 Droids, 2 wireless cameras, and a chromecast and then on the lan side I have 2 pc's and another xbox.Full bars on all of the wireless devices. Videos in Netflix and Amazon load quickly into HD.5g works fantastic, and I have yet to experience any loss of connectivity as reported by others.I primarily play world of warcraft, use mumble for voip and use xsplit to stream to twitch. I am able to do all of these wirelessly and my latency is +/- 10ms when I compare it with a wired connection. I was always a proponent of wired > wireless but I ran several heroic dungeons in Draenor including the new molten core raid and I didn't experience any lag or issues.Setup - The no disc required automatic setup was amazing and easy. I strongly urge you to read the instructions in the box before plugging it in. I did experience a slight issue (no internet connectivity) during setup but after an update and reboot of the device, I haven't touched it since.This is a big router but there is a feature of disabling the lights on the device which makes it less of a presence.To get the best performance out of this router. You'll want to scan your wireless area using something like inssider, wifi analyzer(droid app), or something similar to see what wireless networks are in range as this defaults to channel 6. Most of your neighbors will not change the default channel so you tend to end up with wireless saturation on channel 6. You'll also want to use 5g when you can.One of the complaints that I was reading is that "This router does not let you label your connections" and that is not entirely true. You are able to label the connections on the very first page of the router, you will click on the connected clients and you can right click and label them.I also work from home and have not experienced any issues VPNing into my network whether on the lan or over wireless.I would definitely recommend the ASUS RT-AC87U to any networking and tech enthusiasts out there.If anybody has any questions, please comment and I will definitely get back to you.