Hello all. I am in the market for a new router and am looking for one with an accessible companion app that will let me tweak advanced settings from within the app. Does anyone have any recommendations? I am looking in to Asus and Linksys but I am not ruling out Netgear. I do not want to buy an Eero router unless that is the most accessible option. Ubiquiti routers do not have certain things that I need. I appreciate any help.
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TP deco
Currently rocking the TP deco here and app is 100 percent accessible. However I've got it running as a mesh system which is what you may or may not want. Do not quote me on this but I do believe you can just buy a single router and not have to worry about mesh if ya don't want. The cool thing about mesh though if you have multiple routers, you connect one into your modem set it up and you just have to plug the other routers into the wall and they'll automatically see your main router and connect. No setup is required. Setup was accessible last I tried but I've heard it's gotten tons better since.
100% second @Jonathan Candler
I have 4 xe 75 pro and the deco app from tp link, if not actually native, at least feels 100% native. I literally can't remember one unlabled ui element on it.
Plus the router itself I am very satisfied with it.
I have 1 2.5gb wlan and 2 1.5gb ethernet ports for each router.
Absolutely love it.
Plus for advanced users there are real features and the actual network features aren't even locked down or anything. Just some ads for their vpn / security thing, it's as easy to ignore them by just, well, ignoring them. They are not intrusive at all.
TP link Dekko
Like others have said terrific! However, I do believe that the brand has been banned for sale in the USA! But smooth sailing rest of the world!
re: TP link Dekko
When were they banned from selling in the US? I got mine a couple years ago and still going strong here. Or was this recent, and if so? Why.
still available
No clue where someone heard that. see below link.
https://a.co/d/0ftg1Eh8
A short time ago they passed a policy to
Stop selling any foreign made router.
Just as a side note, the latest security breach before this thing was all on us made routers, cisco I think.
But this US for US and the rest of the world right now so...