#R8500 ac5300 update#
I came here to check if I should update to the latest firmware of kong or should I leave it the way it is.
Posted: Sun 4:52 Post subject: Re: Stable Build It looks like there are X10 build - at least its discussed in this forum and both BS and Kong are participating in it In the end I just went for the largest RAM and FLASH I could find at the time to protect the investment for as long as possible. I looked at Linksys when it came to refresh, but I couldn't find anything with similar specs (CPU, RAM and FLASH, radio capabilities, port count, etc) compared to the ASUS and NetGear devices. The R8500's X8's seem to be a fantastic work horse too, so is the X10 really necessary yet ?Īs to Netgear vs Linksys - and without wanting to start a who's-the-best-manufacturer war in the forum, I came from Linksys (e3000, e4200), which were good in their day, but it hit the same old issues of performance and lack of available resources as dd-wrt became more feature rich and more concurrent video/gaming happened in the house as the kids got older. I know several people with ordinary workloads (family of 4-5 all streaming or gaming) and the R8000's are generally waaay good enough. The higher end Netgear routers have a very good spec, but how much is "enough power" ? Hint - its before you cry at the price or have to skip food to buy it ! features), how fast and how much you want to burn a hole in your pocket. I'm thinking of upgrading my X8 to X10? confused if I should do that or should I go towards a linksys?ĭepends what you want to do (i.e.