[tenebrisalietum]

About a year ago I decided no more crappy plastic boxes as my main home router, and now use a headless Linux PC instead. No regrets and have plenty of resources to run things like ntopng and anything I need right at the edge of my home network; and QoS is something I can control as well.

I don't care about the small increase in cost of electricity where I'm at.

Now I do also have an Asus RT-AC56U but configured for an access point only. Which had pretty decent firmware IMHO with it's OpenWRT variant "AsusWRT"--decent because it's easy to get root without flashing it and really do what you want. With all the cloud service stuff disabled, it goes into a 2nd NIC into my PC-as-a-router and is appropriately firewalled.

At least one other comment talks about getting business class hardware for Wifi and that might be a plan in the near future, but for now it's working OK for me.