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When comparing ASUS RT-AC56U vs TP-Link WR842N, the Slant community recommends TP-Link WR842N for most people. In the question“What are the best home routers that support OpenWRT or DD-WRT?” TP-Link WR842N is ranked 2nd while ASUS RT-AC56U is ranked 6th.
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Pros
Pro Great throughput
RT-AC56U achieves a wired bidirectional throughput of up to 1250 Mbps. For wireless throughput the 2.4GHz band provides an average up/down throughput of 110Mbps and the 5GHz band provides an average up/down throughput of 525Mbps.
Pro Supports multiple DDNS services
Pro Has a built-in VPN server
Pro Doesn't allow sticking with default passwords
Pro Great performance
Pro V3 has 32MB RAM
Cons
Con Potential instabilities with its 2.4 GHz band
Many reports indicate stability issues with the 2.4 GHz band. While ASUS acknowledged the issues, the firmware fix they issued that was supposed to fix these issue has had limited success.
Con The UI can sometimes be hard to navigate
Con "Download Master" feature doesn't work well with BitTorrent traffic
Con Quality of service functionality in automatic mode doesn't do much
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