My old router was way overdue, many years have past and I was looking primarily into grabbing a router with Guest SSID so I can give out wifi access to guests who come to our house and not worry about leaving my whole network wide open. Once I started my research, I was faced with all the nice fast and high cost routers. I asked myself, really? Do I need this or that? Sure, having the best router was nice and having all the features available was great but do I need that? Ultimately I went looking for a low cost and less featured router and found the ASUS RT-N10+. The ASUS allows me to do what I wanted to and more, also comes at a great price. I see no drop in speeds over wifi and it meets the needs for me so I see no real reason to pay more, especially over a hundred for bragging rights on some of the latest / fastest routers.
If you are looking for a router, see what your immediate use and needs are, and go from there. No use buying an expensive router because the features sound nice to have, just in case. The industry and manufacturers are constantly introducing new features and models, you may end up wasting money on more expensive routers with features you never use.
8/16/14 UPDATE: Over the last month or two, I have been noticing something strange with the router. Overnight, the wifi does not work even if the device and router shows connected. This only happens on the Guest SSID. The standard SSID which my notebook is connected to and have access to internet and network, works fine without issues. It's the tablet and smartphones which I only allow internet, that have the problem. A reboot of the router and all is working again. Noticed also a glitch where the WPS light is on even when in the settings, WPS is disabled. This also requires a reboot to turn off the WPS light.
I've tried a number of settings in the router to see if anything works but have not been able to resolve the problem. Will try Asus support to see if they have a clue with the Guest SSID issue.
UPDATE 8/20/14: Ok, still haven't contacted Asus for troubleshoot but I've made some changes and so far the wifi signal has not dropped overnight. The changes I made were reducing the Fragmentation Threshold to 2306 and RTS Threshold to 2307, lowering the Beacon Interval to 50, I also disabled the b/g Protection box. These from some of the many suggestions from a PCMAG article by Samara Lynn (10 Wireless Router Features You Should Be Using but Aren't). So far so good, not sure which had an effect but I will update if the wifi breaks in the future.
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