Well as some of you know I have a new house and my broadband will activate on the 22nd of this month. I have never had fibre before but am getting a 38Mb line which is 10x faster than my current ISP provides.
I used to use Netgear routers but am out of the loop now with new technology and I always worry about using the ISP provided routers as they generally have there own software and bloatware
If your ISP is handing you Ethernet, then my preference would be to have router/firewall with enough UTM throughput to handle Gbps speed. The only ones that I can find that have enterprise performance with consumer pricing is the Ubiguiti EdgeRouters. I just ordered an ER4.
A new isp for me this morning.
1 Gb fibre to the premises. They are drilling holes in the wall as we speak or as I type. I am keen to see how much download speed I get with steam and DCS. Both max out at 5.5Mb/s at the minute
I love my Asus router, an old, now EOL, RT-AC3200. It has been dependable as can be, and I am looking to upgrade to the next overkill-router they offer, the GT-AX11000.
Asus includes a mesh function in the newer models so you can buy a mesh system or a “big” router and a secondary “small” one and link them together.
Mine has supported a peak of over 800Mbps down, which is well above the 500Mbps that we pay for (iirc it was 500, definitely not more than that).
It’s going well, it’s one of those things once it’s up and running you tend to forget about it. Until the service goes down super speeds though. IIRC it took an hour to get cyberpunk 2077