I bought the taotronics one after watching a couple of youtube vids reviewing it that weren't sponsored and if the "HQ in China" thing doesn't bug you I can strongly recommend it and I'm not getting paid. I have a 150 mbps shaw plan and I get more than that literally anywhere on all 3 floors of my house. And the router is in the basement. With my old ASUS router I was like 25-30 mpbs upstairs. Now a clean 150-160 most of the time.
I do get the China thing I guess. If it comes out that they've been doing nefarious things at Taotronics I won't be shocked, but I'm willing to take the risk of them getting some data from me. It's not going to be very interesting to them if they do spy on me, and all my work stuff is inaccesible anyway.
They did give me 20 bucks to review a humidifier of theirs a year or so ago but it wasn't contingent on any star rating.
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