What is the best gaming router?

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Just ordered one for 150 off amazon. Good price?

Just hardwired my pc to the modem.

Wife shall use tethering to my work ipad.

What makes this good compared to others? Im kinda clueless on this stuff. Does it just put out a stronger signal?

My parents always complain to me that the internet in the front of their house sucks, Would this help them or is it different? they bought an extender thing but in my experience those are crap, maybe they just buy the wrong ones though

Nearly all modern tablets and phones will be running AC fairly soon. Current tier 1 and 2 phones already do

Oh I'm sure, but looking at real-world speeds and the fact that the 802.11ac standard was only approved 6 months ago (and many of the routers on the market simply did a firmware upgrade from draft to approval), I'm personally not ready to buy or recommend AC routers. Even when every smartphone is using AC by the end of the year or whenever, the typical networking traffic isn't going to change much in the average household.

In a year, I'll probably change my mind. It needs a couple more generations, just like wireless N did. Specifically, beamforming has a shitload of room for improvement for there to be much range benefit. What I see in the 802.11ac specs is potential rather than promise. What I'm seeing in tests are zero real-world benefits in a typical home network. I'm not convinced it'll be much different in a year, but at that point, N would be fully "obsolete." We really aren't going to see the holy-shite-what-an-improvement factors with 802.11AC until there are 4x4 MU-MIMO routers. The upcoming ASUS AC87U looks particularly sexy in terms of specs. Still, it's going to take a lot to get me to consider "upgrading" my N900 dual-band... and I typically have 8-10 devices connected to it, and a couple of full PCs that share large files.

Edit: not saying its a bad purchase. From a brand and quality standpoint, it's great. And if you do get wireless ac client adapters, and you tend to heavily transfer, stream, access, etc large amounts of data across your local network over wifi (rather than the internet), you might notice a bump in throughput. It's just a too-common misconception that a 802.11ac router automatically means better or faster or longer range, or that it means anything at all to hard wired clients.

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asus rt-ac66r

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Ordering one of these now, I am moving and rather than rent a modem from the dumbasses at Cox for $9.95/month I am buying my own.

Took me a freaking hour and about 5 phone calls just to get my service order set up. They wanted to charge me $160 a month with "free" hbo and starz ended up getting the same service for $130 a month without the "free" hbo and starz. They certainly lived up to their bad reputation, sadly they are the only real option I have.

any recommendations for cable modems or a good modem wifi router combo?