ASUS RT BE82U

Finally have all five ports at 2.5GbE and my wired devices are flying—no more bottleneck from a single gigabit port. The signal reaches every corner of the house much better than my last router.

Swapped out my old router and the difference on my NAS transfers is night and day — those 2.5GbE ports actually let me saturate my wired connection now. WiFi 7 range covers the whole house too, even the backyard. Genuinely impressed for the price.

Setting up three separate SSIDs for my smart plugs and cameras finally stopped my 2.4GHz devices from fighting with everything else. The 6500 Mbps speed is overkill for my apartment, honestly, but file transfers between my NAS and PC fly now. Parental controls were easy enough that I didn't need the