I bought this to replace a six month old Netgear R7500. I was so fed up with that. It kept loosing settings and needed a reboot. It was running the latest FW too. Anyway, I saw a review of this and have many other ASUS products all of which perform very well. This router is the mutts.

ASUS fanbois have been all worked up about the RT-AC88U, judging from SNBForums discussions. But neither our chamber nor real life tests provide reason for such excitement, at least on the basis of wireless performance. What Forum posters seem most excited about is that the router just works .