Time to get a new router. Anyone have suggestions? Going to have a couple of PC, phones, TV the usual modern household things connected and of course will be gaming.
What is everyone using for your gaming needs?
i think any of the highly rated ones are ok but the question is that are you able to hard wire your PC to it
Yes, I will have two PC connected by ethernet cable.
I have an ASUS RT-AX58U and I have zero complaints. The last 2 routers I had were Netgear and they died really fast.
The last 5 routers I’ve had were all Netgear and they’ve worked fabulously. You’ve been unlucky.
I recently switched to an AC router with a wider range and it works wonderfully.
so yeah if you’re only getting one router I would go for ones with external antennas for better reception, unless you’re looking at mesh wifi routers which is a whole different beast. also look for ones that can do beam forming.
higher AC numbers just means there’s more bandwidth to be shared between wireless devices. if you have a lot of wireless devices that needs to connect, get the higher AC or AX routers.
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I currently use Asus RT-AC68P.
I usually lean towards models that supports custom firmwares like DD-WRT or Merlin (if Asus) for extra or improved features.
Thanks. 
I don’t need a lot of features. Will have two PCs wired in plus some wifi stuff around the house, tv, phones, etc.
I can too vouch that my nighthawk router I bought over 4 years ago still works today flawlessly
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I currently have 20+ devices hooked into mine, mostly WiFi. You’d be surprised how “connected” our world is today.
That said, I have a Nighthawk R7900P router and because it is not in a central location in our house (our office is on the west side of the house on the first floor), the signal struggles to get to the east side, especially into the kitchen which is more east and south of the location of the router. My daughter lives above where the kitchen/living room is located and the signal in her room is spotty sometimes.
Takeaways: make sure you can locate your router in a central location to ALL devices, and if you cannot, buy some signal boosters to push the signal to the outer edges of your house/yard/garage/etc.
oof… if you can’t put the router in the middle of the house i would go for a mesh wifi routers
i’m using Vilo mesh wifi (3 unit for $70). No complaints so far
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I got some boosters from Comcast (our provider) for free, so we have those in the low signal end of the house. We don’t tend to use WiFi much in those areas anyway, so our router plus those boosters do the trick.
I have a google nest mesh network in my house, the nodes have blown every high end router I’ve ever owned out of the water.
I have a Nighthawk. Works great. Set it up with a cell phone app.