PlayFoward wrote:
It is sad, even for 100mbps cant be stable. And that model is for 300mbps wtf.
Any way. For next router I may choice again my previous brand. At least I know they are stable. I thought Asus can't disappoint me.
It's not a 300 Mbps router. N300 does not mean it can handle 300 Mbit Internet routing, only that in rare circumstances it can do up to 300 Mbit Wifi. N300 is actually quite misleading, but something that's industry-wide (not specific to ASUS, all the manufacturers advertise them the same way). N300 routers can actually only reliably do about 30 Mbit Wifi in dense urban environments, because the 300 is only possible on 40 MHz channels which just don't work well in dense areas, so becomes 20 MHz / 150 Mbit shared between up to around 5 to 10 networks (and further reduced by older Wifi b/g devices, microwave ovens, cordless phones, baby monitors, Bluetooth, wireless keyboards and mice, and various other uses of the 2.4GHz spectrum). That bandwidth is also shared between all networks within range. In practice, a N300 router in a dense environment is limited to around 30 Mbit at peak times. N300 can do more in a rural or isolated location, but is still subject to interference which reduces bandwidth.
Basically 2.4 GHz Wifi is not really suitable for 100 Mbit+ Internet connections, you need at least AC1200 or AX1800 to reliably handle 100 Mbit. In 2022, AX / Wifi 6 is the best / preferred option, but AC / Wifi 5 is ok if you can find one that's significantly cheaper than AX and still getting security updates. N / Wifi 4 is essentially obsolete and should only be used for legacy and slow (10 to 25 Mbit) Internet connections or other low bandwidth applications (but older Wifi 4 / N models should be avoided due to security vulnerabilities). An easy rule of thumb is to divide the AC/AX number by 10 for the maximum Internet bandwidth, if you want to have the best chance of maximising your connection at peak times, although it's not an exact thing. AC & AX normally have far less interference on the 5GHz band, and have a shorter range so are less impacted by nearby networks; so you don't necessarily need to go quite so high on higher bandwidth connections (e.g. a good AX5400/AX6000 can probably handle 1 Gbit+ in many cases).
