[bdelay]

Just read the r7800 had the best range for an all-in-one unit. Not sure if it's true, but it has been an amazing router. I picked one up for myself -- they are 130$ refurbished on Amazon every now and then.

To answer your question: I have no idea. Would be neat if a much cheaper model had the horsepower though.

[pedrocr]

Sounds like a good recommendation. The C7 has been my go-to for cheap, good wifi, and solid LEDE support. But I haven't stress tested it to check how it will take a very congested network. My uses have had fairly light users.

[StudentStuff]

The Archer C7 seems to do about 400Mbps with no configuration/optimization when running OpenWRT, plus with them being available for $20 to $30 on Craigslist and their knockoffs (Offerup & Letgo), its easy to nab one for cheap.

I hear hardware offload is possible, but I have yet to try a build that has the patches for it.

[pedrocr]

With Gigabit fiber internet I can see needing something more. I find 100Mb internet to be enough for my needs and the Wifi performance to be adequate to the NAS on the LAN. So I even prefer that there's no offload to hardware and that it's the well tested Linux kernel code doing the heavy lifting.

[pedrocr]

Ran the tests and apparently the C7 is perfectly capable of doing 100Mb/s with cake. But as it turns out I don't really need it. I already get an A for bufferbloat with my provider without it and turning it on doesn't get me to A+.