Our startup has tried both the Asus RT68-U and the Netgear N7000 (the two top of the line, AC1900 class, consumer routers on Small Network Builder[1]) for both office and factory operations with both stock and DD-WRT[2] firmwares.<p>Our initial preference was to lean towards the Asus given their track record on OpenWRT for the past few years. If your last experience with flashing a router's firmware was with the Linksys WRT-54G back in 2004 than you may have missed out on all the Asus development that happened in the past decade.<p>We found the Netgear N7000 performed better overall. We were reluctant to use it as it did not support Dual-WAN mode initially like the Asus on stock firmware. (I.e. primary Comcast internet, secondary Verizon MiFi usb adapter.)<p>We recently updated both routers to [Kong]'s firmware mod of DD-WRT[3] and now the Netgear N7000 blows everything out of the water.<p>At our factory we are concurrently connecting 50 previously unassociated WiFi devices every 30 seconds and the dual-core 1Ghz Netgear just keeps on trucking with no problems. Our Asus meanwhile will crash about once a day.<p>Going forward we will stick with the Netgear. It seems to have become the 'default' router on the DD-WRT community, with support for other routers being forks off the N7000 code. Given Linksys has long no longer been 'Linksys' been 'Cisco' been 'Belkin' been Marvell, I don't anticipate it superseding the thrown despite the <i>classic</i> throwback black and blue livery. The 1.2Ghz processor and quad-band antenna is nothing to snub at. Should be an interesting year for router enthusiasts.<p>[1]<a href="http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wireless/wireless-reviews/32239-ac1900-first-look-netgear-r7000-a-asus-rt-ac68u" rel="nofollow">http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wireless/wireless-reviews/322...</a><p>[2]In broad strokes, DD-WRT is like a nice, easy to install, easy to configure version of OpenWRT. If you previously preferred using Tomato to OpenWRT this is for you. OpenWRT is when you really want ring-zero console access only with no amenities out of the gate.<p>[3]<a href="http://tips.desipro.de/" rel="nofollow">http://tips.desipro.de/</a> - [Kong] made some modifications to DD-WRT to work better with the new AC-1900 class routers. They are fast becoming the master branch.