Need a new router for Fios Gigabit internet

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I am looking for a router for my gigabit internet from fios and I am trying to replace the router they gave me since I have to pay $10 a month and I can't really do much on it. I just got comptia network+ so I am a bit new at networking, so I want to learn more about and plan to get Ccna. So I was planning on getting a router that supports open source firmware like dd-wrt, tomato and etc. My budget is around $200 but the less I spend the better of course. I have been reading a lot of reviews on the top rated routers but there's always some critical bad reviews and can't make up my mind, it's really frustrating, so I am coming here for help. Literally like all the netgear top line routers to Asus top line routers seem to have bad reviews of how it breaks down after couple of months, or band issues where one of the bands stops working after a while, the router ends up dead after couple of months and etc. It's funny how my Verizon g100 has lasted me like more than 2 years without any issues but for after market routers I see all these bad reviews.
I mainly need a good router with open source support, Mu mimo, and tri band if possible but dual band is fine if tri band isn't availible.
 
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Buy the G1100 direct from Verizon.
I have one, and it is pretty good. Bonus, you don't even have to pay for it all up front. When I bought mine, they just split it in thirds, and added that to the next 3 monthly bills.

In addition, do you have TV through Verizon as well? If so, there needs to be a Verizon router/gateway thing in there somewhere. This talks to the TV boxes.
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Buy the G1100 direct from Verizon.
I have one, and it is pretty good. Bonus, you don't even have to pay for it all up front. When I bought mine, they just split it in thirds, and added that to the next 3 monthly bills.

In addition, do you have TV through Verizon as well? If so, there needs to be a Verizon router/gateway thing in there somewhere. This talks to the TV boxes.
 
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bill001g

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It depends what features you plan to use. A nasty secret is to get high speed router manufactures have offloaded the NAT function to a different chip. This means the CPU chip never see a lot of the traffic. To use many of these feature you must disable the hardware offload and the traffic flows via the cpu limiting you to about 250mbps on many routers.

Every very simple feature no longer function. I know on my asus router the screen that is suppose to show utilization of the wan does not show the correct information.

Things like dd-wrt do not even have support for the hardware acceleration...at least last time I looked....so it automatically limits your speed.
 
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If you want a ton of features and never have to worry about performance build a small x86 computer and use pfsense or ipfire. It's going to run around $200-400+. It doesn't need a lot of power so you can get low watt cpu. intel's xeon d line is for this, but it's very pricey. xeon E is a cheaper solution and has ECC. look for AES on the cpu, some i3 and pentium don't have it. if you have some spare stuff you can get things on ebay and stay in your budget. you can also spend a little more and add function like nas, vm server, etc.
 
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