This router served me well but its now obsolete. AD is in, SFP+ in at least a single port is a must. Loved the performance and interface and the funky look grew on me after awhile. Two years later and its time to move on. Unfortunately ASUS is still lost in two year old tech for routers.
I could do without the AD as its pretty much line of site but the 10GB SFP+ is a show stopper now.
My new setup
Netgear X10 nighhawk AD with SFP+
Netgear XS708T 10GBe managed switch.
RVIE 10GBe connection
NAS with SFP+
This gets me the full GB FIOS connection and the NAS access over LAN is nearly as fast as a pair of 850 evos in raid local. 850-900MB/s and with occasional peaks near 1GB/s Damn sure faster than a USB 3.0 drive attached.
Time to step it up ASUS. This was the fastest but Netgear just gave it a severe spanking.
The only thing ASUS has on it is a little better tweaking on a few things, history logging and parental control by setting hours. With the Netgear there is an app for that. When my kids dont respect their time limits I launch the app on my Iphone and with one swipe......they are shut down!
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, I'm not sure about the former” ~ Albert Einstein