- What's your budget?
- What are you looking for?
- What is your network experience?
I'm not a fan of the AIO home-grade routers. For the price ($300) of the fancy ones...I'd buy an Ubiquity EdgeRouter Lite-3, an 8-port Netgear/TP-Link switch, and an Ubiquity UniFi AC-Pro access point for wifi. You'd have a great gateway and firewall, a rugged switch that can handle your home network with ease and a very good quality wireless network that was easy to manage from a web browser-based GUI. Would be more work than your standard home-grade router, but would be worth it IMHO.
I have an ERL3 actually, it is my failover as I built a small ITX PC as my PFSense PC, that ran me around $250 because I wanted to have Squid proxy cache capabilities so extra RAM and SSD space was needed. But I have run a VM of PFSense with 1 core and 512MB RAM and it handles my network without issues too.
I do prefer PFSense over Ubiquity's ERL UI, but both are very serviceable. Though to get the most form the ERL you'll need to get familiar with command line, which really isn't that bad. You can type up a config and upload it too which is pretty handy. If you're into networking, it's a great way to cut your teeth and learn how to manage networks at a higher level.
PFSense I never use command line with. There's TONS of documentation for both EdgeOS and PFSense. But depending on your network, how much you want to manage it, and how easy or complex you want it to be, this might be the wrong direction. Also depending on your skill level, skill set, knowledge, experience and patience...this might or might be the wrong way to go as well. I highly recommend it...but I realize some users prefer the easy and less secure route.
I do use my Asus AC66U (well R for refurbished, but it's a refurbished U) as my access point, but thats a very good home-grade router, especially with MerlinWRT as the firmware. Though check out
this thread to get Merlin on can be a little bit of work if you buy a new one...mine was purchased over 2 years ago so I had the older AsusWRT firmware that didn't have the lock.
Regardless it has been a fantastic little router overall, but can't keep up overall with better devices.
Here's some reading material for you if you're interested in going away from the overpriced home-grade shit:
If you want something more AIO, hopefully the first link gives you an idea of what to look at. The nice thing about an access point is you can replace it should it fail, they offer a lot more to manage a wireless network or networks, and you can add more later...plus you can install it where it will provide you the best signal...so long as you have an Ethernet run there!