Another happy user of Merlin's version of asuswrt here. My RT-AC66U had mysteriously started getting itself into a funk overnight, which Merlin's version cured entirely.
On the negative side, making even trivial firewall changes such as adding or removing port forwarding rules still requires a router reboot. Apple routers do (or did) this too. I'd like to know who decided that this was an acceptable behavior.
I also loaded DD-WRT on the AC66U and it was unable to get the WAN interface moving. And Shibby's TomatoUSB suffered from show-stopping configuration bugs.
On the negative side, making even trivial firewall changes such as adding or removing port forwarding rules still requires a router reboot. Apple routers do (or did) this too. I'd like to know who decided that this was an acceptable behavior.
I also loaded DD-WRT on the AC66U and it was unable to get the WAN interface moving. And Shibby's TomatoUSB suffered from show-stopping configuration bugs.