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Used for: More than a year
Parental controls and guest network are free, not a subscription
Runs warm and swallows half a cabinet
Sits on top of a cabinet with the aerials fanned out and it does get warm to the touch, though never worryingly so. A year and a half in it has never needed a power cycle, which is more than I can say for anything else I have owned. The game-prioritising feature I frankly cannot tell is on or off, but the guest network and the parental schedule for the kids' tablets get used every single day and neither hides behind a paid tier.
Used for: More than a year
Our house is long and thin with the office at the far end over a garage, and every router before this one gave up somewhere around the utility room. This one reaches, and it reaches with enough left over that video calls from the garage office do not turn into a slideshow when someone starts a download downstairs. The web interface is the other quiet win. Everything is a page you can bookmark, nothing needs the app, and I have never been asked to make an account to change a setting. It looks like it was designed by an engineer in about 2011 and I mean that as a compliment!
Used for: More than a year
It is a ridiculous-looking thing and I have hidden it behind the telly, but the ping to the game servers I use has been rock steady since the day it went in and the ISP box went in a drawer!
Used for: Less than a month
Coverage beats the two routers it replaced
Enormous, but the coverage upstairs is better than the two boxes it replaced put together!
Used for: 6–12 months
Bought it for the wired ports as much as the wi-fi and the aggregation to the NAS was two clicks. Faster than the box the ISP left me by a mile
Used for: 3–6 months
The ten gigabit port pays for itself if you have a NAS
Wireless throughput at range is nothing like the headline
The reason I paid this much was the second wired port at ten gigabit, because the NAS and the desktop both sit on it and copying a project folder no longer means going to make a cup of tea. On that count it delivers: sustained transfers across the house run at about eight hundred megabytes a second, which is the drives giving up rather than the router. Wireless is where I would temper expectations. Five months in, the numbers on the box are the numbers you get standing next to it with a laptop that has a matching card. Through one brick wall and up a floor it settles to something perfectly good but not remotely close to the headline, which I suspect everyone knows and nobody says.
