22-Dec-2016, 02:48
So don't consider this empirical by any means.
I have a two story home and had been using two Airport Extremes and very happy with them. However I became concerned with overall internet security and the fact that perhaps as they were a few years old, something better had come along. Asus makes very good routers as well, they have a separate branch of firmware updated by a gentlemen named Merlin, and include some additional built in security features. Plus they are slightly easier to configure some details related to security and traffic monitoring.
So call it a whim or whatever I upgraded to the ASUS, removed both Extremes from the household and get very good coverage on both floors. It could be that I could have slimmed down to one Extreme and have been just as happy. I do think that I am getting slightly better range with the ASUS, but I could be wrong.
Also I do like the enhanced security feature suite in the ASUS.
That being said the Extremes served me very very well for many years and I have set them up in both my brothers and mothers households, as they are easy enough for me to manage them without getting caught up in minutiae.
Net-net - potentially broader coverage in my home, additional security features and I like the traffic analyzer feature.
I have a two story home and had been using two Airport Extremes and very happy with them. However I became concerned with overall internet security and the fact that perhaps as they were a few years old, something better had come along. Asus makes very good routers as well, they have a separate branch of firmware updated by a gentlemen named Merlin, and include some additional built in security features. Plus they are slightly easier to configure some details related to security and traffic monitoring.
So call it a whim or whatever I upgraded to the ASUS, removed both Extremes from the household and get very good coverage on both floors. It could be that I could have slimmed down to one Extreme and have been just as happy. I do think that I am getting slightly better range with the ASUS, but I could be wrong.
Also I do like the enhanced security feature suite in the ASUS.
That being said the Extremes served me very very well for many years and I have set them up in both my brothers and mothers households, as they are easy enough for me to manage them without getting caught up in minutiae.
Net-net - potentially broader coverage in my home, additional security features and I like the traffic analyzer feature.
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