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I’m upgrading to 2gig fiber next week, so it’s time to retire the Alien. Verizon provides a free gateway that I may use for a week or so until I figure out what I’m doing long term.

My WiFi needs are pretty straightforward. I live in a 600sqft studio apartment in NYC, so a very compact space but with heavy congestion.

I also do moonlight streaming and occasional VR so WiFi performance is important. Other than that my network is simple.. there’s a 4 port switch to provide Ethernet to my devices on desk. My current 1gig switch is being replaced with a Unifi 4 port 2.5gig managed switch.

It seems like the spiritual successor to the Alien is the Dream Router 5G Max, but it’s $500, out of stock, and I have no need for 5G fallback. Is the Dream Router 7 a suitable replacement? It seems like it has a simpler antenna layout but for my circumstances it may not matter at all.

I’m upgrading my Fios to 2gig and need to replace my gateway/router. I’m currently using an Amplifi Alien which has been working great but doesn’t support anything over 1gig.

The UDR7 seems like a good replacement, but I’ve been reading some so-so things on its WiFi performance. I live in a studio apartment in NYC, so while the space is super small and easy there’s lots of potential interference around me and congestion.

The Alien might have been overkill for my needs, but WiFi performance was excellent… and it seems like the UDR7 uses a much simpler antenna layout.