BEST BROADBAND ROUTER

ASUS RT-AC88U $425 | asus.com/au

This whale of a router has a largish footprint, but that does come with perks, including four large antenna to power its 4x4 802.11ac MU-MIMO Wi-Fi, plus double the usual number of Gigabit Ethernet ports, for eight total (or nine including the WAN port). ASUS’s built-in traffic management (aka ‘Quality of Service’) feature is good at ensuring gaming and videostreaming are kept lag free, and there’s heaps of enthusiast extras on offer that most other mainstream-brand routers ignore.