Need help with choosing devices for home network

Definitely. I'm glad darksky pointed that out in case you are looking to support all of a full Gigabit line in the future.

It is worth keeping in mind though that an RT3200 will get most of a Gigabit using fq_codel/simple.qos SQM with irqbalance and packet steering active. Here it is reported to handle 832 Mbps on a 900Mbps line with average latency ~14ms down and up and 95th percentile latency below 30ms down and up using fq_codel/simple.qos:
https://forum.openwrt.org/t/e8450-rt3200-gigabit-speeds-tweaking/121983/5?u=eginnc

The RT3200 is going to struggle with CAKE SQM (~450 Mbps), but that 800+ Mbps fq_codel/simple.qos SQM performance ain't bad at all, especially considering Gigabit line rate tops out around 930-940 Mbps anyway.

I think hnyman offered some really good perspective here:
https://forum.openwrt.org/t/e8450-rt3200-gigabit-speeds-tweaking/121983/13?u=eginnc

His post led me to consider that I've yet to connect to WiFi at 800+ Mbps on anything but advertising copy :grin: and that I test bufferbloat on an inconveniently located thin client connected by wired Ethernet that I use for little else.

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