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Recommend some good aftermarket wireless routers / APs to work with Home UTM

My trusty old Asus RT-N13U wireless router (running in AP mode) is starting to show its age and hiccup often and I want to replace it with one that will support AC.  Those of us that run Sophos UTMs at home are in a unique position in that we don't need robust firewall/routing/filtering in our wireless routers as the UTM can perform all those tasks.  I don't need the Sophos APs for home and don't want to spend a lot on a fancy wireless router whose features I won't even use (since as I mentioned, my UTM does my routing, DHCP, firewall, filtering, etc...)  Searching for access points, I find that they seem to cost as much (or more) as high-end wireless routers (maybe because they are targeted at enterprise instead of home users?).  

Can some of you recommend a good stable budget-friendly AC capable consumer router/AP that works well with the Sophos UTM as a simple access point?  I am a network professional, so dumping stock firmware and installing open source (tomato, DD-WRT) if need be doesn't scare me.

Thanks in advance.



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  • I'm using the Asus RT-AC87U and Asus RT-AC68U with 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz AC dual as WLAN AP only. Both work very well and fast (AC devices provided). DD-WRT is an option too for the vlan support but i didn't need it. Had a Trendnet TEW 753DAP and TEW-653AP (like old Sophos AP) before but under heavy load they lost the WLan signal very often.
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  • I'm using the Asus RT-AC87U and Asus RT-AC68U with 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz AC dual as WLAN AP only. Both work very well and fast (AC devices provided). DD-WRT is an option too for the vlan support but i didn't need it. Had a Trendnet TEW 753DAP and TEW-653AP (like old Sophos AP) before but under heavy load they lost the WLan signal very often.
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