I've had a lot of routers...
358498
I've configured lots and lots of home routers in the past for home and for friends and family.

In our current home, we've had a few with varying brands, and have had no trouble with setup.

I was excited to get this router for the extra speed (which it does have), but I almost gave up when setting it up.

All the other routers we've used at home have followed the same setup, the most basic setup with DHCP settings in place...no problem at all.

With this router, it just wouldn't work. I tried all sorts of different options.

Finally setting a static IP from what the IP was for the previous router (the previous router got it's IP through DCHP), it worked.

I tried with/without the software, all sorts of options to try to get it to work. It seems silly that something so basic, that the other routers I've used at home could do (obtain an IP through DHCP), this one couldn't do.

Once we got passed that, the router works fine, but talk about a headache for something that is usually the default setup!

Other than that...it looks cool.
866458
Started acting up a few days ago. I just tried my old router and I'm getting about 20x speed through it over this, two days after the ability to return ran out.
4055946
Nice to have a router that doesn't need to be re-booted every week !
4150483
This router sucks.. Its get disconnected very all the time. Some times it WIFI signal will be there but no internet signal and figured out that the problem is with router it self, because wired connections are still working.
3904157
Love these things.  I was tired of crap routers from Linksys and D-Link that have been cost-optimized to the hilt and have tiny NAT tables, etc...  (i.e. minimum amounts of RAM and flash possible).  My biggest beef with them being that when something stops working, the only troubleshooting you can do is to power cycle it.  The EdgeRouter is quite a different take on that.  It runs linux and was originally based on a fork of Vyatta (which was a very cool distro, but Brocade bought it and killed it).

I have been very happy with my EdgeRouter (and in fact I have been involved in well over a dozen of these things being deployed), but there are some caveats:

These things run hotter than I would like.  They are using I think an older SOC (system on a chip) setup from Cavium that runs pretty warm.  My old edge router is made of plastic, but I think the newer ones might have switched to metal cases for heat dissipation reasons (and perhaps RF leakage as well).

I know that very early on they had some quality issues, perhaps around bad RAM and/or Flash (though mine has been rock solid).  They may also have had some power supply issues (I know of one that died that way).  But again, even with these issues, this is still my preferred home router option.

I would also say that this router is not for novices.  While they do have a decent UI and such, it is primarily a CLI based router that has a UI on top of it (this is a lot of the reason that I *like* it, but it is not for everyone).

-Eric
3209718
Nice router. I will be replacing some Ciscos with these.
1778511
I bought this router back in February(2012).  I usually run 3 Computers, 3 Smartphones, Xbox(Call of Duty, so I really appreciate the speed), and a blue-ray player.  Works flawlessly for everything and keeps up with the high traffic perfectly.  I would really recommend this router.
1114666
This is a great router, I have attached a lot of devices and hardwired (even NAS) the dual 5 ghz helps, some websites say it does not make a difference, but in a congested area, it makes a difference in a good way!
56841
The people at Best Buy and Radioshack said to buy a new router.  That would have been wastefull.  The only thing wrong with the original router was the power pack.  So I bought a new one perfect for the job.
2367979
I was waiting for more reliability. I have the same problemas that I had with my older TP-LINK router ( Week signal, but with this router even with Strong Signal, i am experimenting the same problem.)
786146
I have have a few different brands of routers including arm Asus. This Netgear Nighthawk ac2300 is absolutely amazing, my speeds are double what they were with the others.
477540
These routers are notorious for eating up the power supply.  It went out after 6 months of owning it and so I bought a new power supply.  That one only last a year before it went out.  Router worked great when it did work, but than again so does the netgear I replaced it with.
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I bought this router thinking that it would give the extended range over the Linksys WRT54G I had been using.  I had thoughts of using the old router as a access point.  I installed the software, plugged in the router, and everything was fine, initially.  I noticed a couple of disconnects from the Internet, but thought nothing of it.  Until the second day.  I lost Internet connectivity three times.  Each time, I was able to get it back by unplugging the cable modem and the router, then plugging them back in in sequence.  Oddly, a couple of times my laptop still had connectivity wirelessly, but my wired desktop, the main computer, didn't.

Finally, the last time, I lost connectivity and was not able to get it back.  I plugged back in the WRT54G, and everything has been fine.  In fact, I am now using my Apple Airport Express as a range extender access point.  I am sending back the N router.

I gave up on tech support.  They were sure it was a problem with the cable modem.  How strangely coincidental that my cable modem, which hasn't failed me in four years, suddenly started acting strangely with the installation of a new Linksys router.
3539592
I've been having some connectivity problems that I have to reboot the router to fix, but I like it in general.
1914181
I've  bought several routers over the years (most recently another ASUS router which I was very happy with) and after reading the reviews on Amazon decided to try this one.  I liked the fact that it was ASUS (since my other router has run for a year without requiring reboots or me talking nicely to it), the fact that I can attach an external USB hard drive to it so I can set up a backup for my computer, and the gigabit ethernet.  I'm using it as the router on my network, and then have connected it to a network switch to feed 16 ethernet lines to the rest of the house.

Setup took me all of 10 minutes...the enclosed software loaded onto my computer and boom, the wireless was set up.  I'm using my other ASUS router as an access point to extend the network, and immediately the two routers made nice with each other (hard wired, not repeater mode) and blanketed the house in high-speed wifi bliss.

Seems like many of the reviews complain about the firmware .... but I checked the firmware on the router login page and it shipped with the LATEST VERSION.... so no issues there.

Only "complaint" I have is that like other reviewers I've noticed this router runs warm.  I wonder if that will lessen its lifespan or cause any other problems?

So far so good, very happy.  If that changes, I WILL UPDATE THIS REVIEW, PROMISE!
1372551
so far so good. i used to have a NetGear wireless router, suddenly the wireless part stopped working (updated firmware etc. not help), so I bought LinkSys one.. so far so good.. happy w/ it.
829890
I had a router I was renting from Charter and was having to reset all the time but not once so far with this product.