[Staples] ASUS RT-AX58U $189.99 (after $10 coupon and on sale price )

escape1975 wrote: ↑ True, but everything pretty much has moved to solid state, companies don't want to build garbage on purpose and honor warranty claims ...

The RT-AC68U for example is all solid state:

The biggest capacitor, on the bottom left, the one with an "X" scored on the top. That is most likely not a solid state capacitor.

toalan wrote: ↑ The biggest capacitor, on the bottom left, the one with an "X" scored on the top. That is most likely not a solid state capacitor.

Yeah that one is not, because it has a “vent”, however newer routers would be 100% solid like my blue cave

AC68U is from 2014 ...

rngun wrote: ↑ I had similar issues when I bought the Asus Zen CT8. I returned it and got the AX-88u and flashed it with Merlin. It has been a week and is working great so far.

I usually like it when the product does what it is supposed to do when you turn it on, and then upgrade it if necessary Next time I might try and flash Merlin just for fun Thanks for letting me know.