I bought the 87U on a Best Buy sale (my bad for not properly researching, what a PIA router that was with Quantenna).But I own a ZenBook and LOVE IT

Very good buy.

So about 12 hours back on the day after Christmas I decided to drive down to the local Best Buy and get one of these

IT.Bought the RT-AC87U from Best Buy

I bought the 87U on a Best Buy sale (my bad for not properly researching, what a PIA router that was with Quantenna).But I own a ZenBook and LOVE IT

Absolutely rock solid router, I didn't need the 8 ethernet ports so this was a better value at Best Buy for $20 cheaper.

I bought this from Best Buy, and let me tell you right off the bat:it's the same internal guts as the AC88u, with the removal of the Realtek switch that allows the AC88u to have 8 LAN ports, whereas this cheaper variant has only 4 LAN ports