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Your ethernet likely runs at 1gbit. The wifi could be turned off and it would still function.

If you loaded the VPN on the router itself it might limit you. I would not think a game would cause much issue since it is such low bandwidth. It is large downloads that can max the cpu on the router when you are running vpn.

If you are running the vpn on your end device then the router does not really know it is anything special. VPN traffic that uses openvpn looks mostly the same as someone who downloads over a HTTPS web page.
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if you talk about WIFI connection stability then It should not damage stability as long as you don't use 20m long rj45 cable. Ping will rise, as there is another device in the way. I assume that alcatel wifi works as it should (I have no IDEA). Best test is to connect via cable to this router and run speedtest.net and then do the same on wifi. if Difference is greater than ~40 ms then wifi will be more stable and have better ping on asus. if its lower than 40 ms then nothing should change.
 
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You want to run the asus as a AP and not a router.

Dual band it not some magic thing and the 5g band actually has less coverage in many houses than the 2.4g band. It is completely unpredictable if it will perform better. Wifi is subject to interference which is what causes much of the problems with variations in the ping time. This interference in general comes from your neighbors using wifi routers.

All you can do is try it and see if it works better. The theory is not that 5g is better but maybe you get lucky and can find some bandwidth that others people are not using.....this is getting very hard when you consider one "tri" band routers uses almost all the bandwidth by itself.
 
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i was thinking, that maybe cable to TV decoder can make some ping spikes, but with dual-band it could use 2 separate bandwidth

i don't have ping issues with EU game servers like BF1, but i am also playing on China game server the other game and with VPN sometimes have ping spikes up to 10k, 25k and even 100k ms

i tried to configure Alcatel Lucent I-240W-Ato work better with VPN, but there aren't settings like in ASUS RT-AC68U, where you can change ports etc
 
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If you want to use VPN then you need to run the device as a router. The main reason I suggest using the device as a AP is when you run it as a router you have issue sharing files between devices in your house and it can have issue with game consoles that use UPnP to get past some of the NAT issues.

You need to test with a ethernet cable to be sure it is really the wifi causing the issue.

If the tv decoder is hooked up via cable it will not cause wifi spikes. In most cases the cable tv on fiber connections is using a different connection to the ISP even though it is hooked to the same modem. They use different color lasers on the fiber so your internet and tv are completely separate even though they go over the same fiber.
 
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oh ok tyvm...
also im connected to router via 10m cable...
does that dual-band is only for WiFi?

i am thinking why VPN can make so high spikes, could it be that tunnel is full and download/upload speed drops?
i was testing with lot of VPNs, some of them had lower download/upload speed when i tested in speedtest.net to China
also i noticed that download/upload speed affects ping, cos when in game i went to place where were 100+ players, then ping went up to 10k ms while loading all players
last VPNs (Lonlife and Pingzapper) doesn't have download/upload speed reduction, but still sometimes has huge ping spikes

i was thinking that maybe router couldn't handle it

 
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Your ethernet likely runs at 1gbit. The wifi could be turned off and it would still function.

If you loaded the VPN on the router itself it might limit you. I would not think a game would cause much issue since it is such low bandwidth. It is large downloads that can max the cpu on the router when you are running vpn.

If you are running the vpn on your end device then the router does not really know it is anything special. VPN traffic that uses openvpn looks mostly the same as someone who downloads over a HTTPS web page.
 
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