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What are the best routers that support Tomato firmware?

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Best routers that support Tomato firmware	Price	RAM	SoC
-- Asus RT-AC3200	$206.57	256 MiB	Broadcom BCM4709A0
-- Netgear Nighthawk AC1900 (R7000)	$139.99	256 MiB	Broadcom BCM4709A0
-- ASUS TUF-AX3000 v2	$132.11	512MiB	Broadcom BCM6756
-- ASUS AC1900 (RT-AC86U)	$108.95	-	-
-- NETGEAR Nighthawk® X6 AC3200 (R8000)	$249.99	-	-

Asus RT-AC3200

Top Pro

Can be used as cloud storage

You can connect a flash drive or a hard disk drive to this router and access its files from your phone using Asus AiCloud app or via web browser. See More

Top Con

Expensive

At $220 the RT-AC3200 is an expensive router. Unless you have a lot of devices performing demanding tasks, this router might be overkill. See More

Yanis's Experience

Very efficient and great design ! See More

Specs

SoC:Broadcom BCM4709A0

Released:December 19, 2014

Serial Interface:Internal JTAG (populated 4-pin header, 3.3V)

Top Pro

Tomato firmware available for this router

Top Pro

Two simultaneous internet service provider connections for redundancy and load-balancing

You can turn one of routers LAN ports into a second WAN port and have two separate internet service provider connections. You can use the second connection for redundancy, or if you’re using up all of bandwidth, it can be divided between both connections. See More

Top Pro

Great performance

The RT-AC3200 is theoretically capable of 3.2 Gbps throughput over its three bands. In real life testing at a close range of 15 feet the RT-AC3200 averages around 510 Mbps. At a distance of 100 feet it averages around 290 Mbps. See More

Netgear Nighthawk AC1900 (R7000)

Top Pro

Several custom firmwares readily available

To make greater use of the powerful component hardware, owners can easily flash any of the popular third-party firmwares like TomatoUSB, DD-WRT, AsusWRT and more using the existing upgrade page in the stock web-based control panel. See More

Top Con

Newer versions do not support Tomato easily

Newer firmware versions do not allow for cfw to be installed, creating the necessity of a fmw downgrade which is painfully done version by version by TELNET commands. See More

SmartArinniti's Experience

Hardware changed. Does not work with tomato any longer. See More

Specs

SoC:Broadcom BCM4709A0

Released:August 7, 2013

Wireless radios:Broadcom BCM4360 x2

ASUS TUF-AX3000 v2

Specs

SoC:Broadcom BCM6756

Released:January 31, 2022

Serial Interface:Internal JTAG 4-pin header

ASUS AC1900 (RT-AC86U)

Specs

For an apartment:Yes

For a large home:Yes

NETGEAR Nighthawk® X6 AC3200 (R8000)

NETGEAR Nighthawk Pro Gaming AC1750 (XR300)

TP-LINK Archer C7 V2

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