I have owned the Asus RT-AC66U WiFi Router (AC1750 3x3) for 8 years (since February 2, 201), which has served me well. However, in the past month, I experienced multiple disconnects from many of my devices (including the Ring Alarm) and decided that an upgrade might solve the problem.
I tried upgrading to the Asus RT-AC88U two years ago, but it had difficulty connecting to my Synology DS1815+ NAS through the 1GE Ethernet cable. Thus, I was looking to replace it with another brand.
After reviewing SmallNetBuilder, Costco, and Amazon, I settled on the TP-Link AX6000 WiFi6 Router. It was relatively inexpensive ($250), well-rated, had 8 LAN ports, and had built-in antivirus support.
I want to purchase a WiFi 6e router (the new, upcoming standard) offering speed improvements, but models with 6E support are still too expensive.
Initially, I could not connect my Synology DS1815+ NAS to AX6000's Ethernet port. After some troubleshooting, port 1 (of 4 available ports) in Synology's DS1815+ is not working well. I connected the AX600 to the LAN port #4, and all is working fine now.
I enabled OneMesh support using both of my TP-Link RE220 Router Extenders, and it works as a Mesh (only one SSID is seen throughout the house).
TP-Link AX6000 WiFi 6 Router(Archer AX6000) Score Card
- 8x1GE LAN Ports (using 6 of them)
- WiFi6 support for 8 streams
- Quad-core 1.8 GHz CPU
- 8 Antennas
- Tether iPhone App makes configuration very easy
- OneMesh support (can use other routers to create a Mesh Network at home)
- The Trend-Micro Antivirus is working very well
- $250 price
- The OneMesh does not always work well with RE220 router extenders
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