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I use a few secondhand Netgear R7800 with OpenWrt installed to blanket the house in fast WiFi and 1Gb Ethernet. This setup has been in place for almost 4 years now and has been very reliable. Maintenance is needed to keep software up to date.

With so many radios, I've segregated IoT devices on their own frequency to maximize throughput on workstations. VLANs provide network isolation.

I think the routing performance is fine for most households. If you need a router that does QoS on a gigabit internet connection, you'll need something more powerful.

Occasionally I'll wish that I had something faster than 1GbE, so the hunt for hardware continues...