@bruno_sardine You're correct in that forums tend to attract more problems than success stories, mostly due to the fact that the primary purpose of these forums is to solve said problems. That said, for your use case, the ER605 should be a perfectly fine gateway. If you have any issues, we in the community would be happy to assist! 

  @bruno_sardine 

A lot, and i mean a LOT of the more...problematic posts on here, reddit, other platforms saying those kind of things are made by people who dont really understand what they are doing, or have biases toward another manufacturer, or tend to believe rhetoric over fact - a business class router (the ER605 v2 is one) has a lot more options and configurability compared to something like a home grade deco, netgear, asus, and this can be confusing or overwhelming at first - especially when different brands call the same thing by different names.

The firmware isnt horrible.  In standalone mode, it may not be the prettiest, but it doesnt need to be - its a router.  It has plenty of features, its firewall is solid, you can configure vlans, acls, bandwidth shaping, qos, policy routing, multi wan, all sorts of stuff.

Now, its best to understand that the ER605 v2 is the "baby" of the product line.  It can handle a total of 1 gig throughput (either single WAN or multi wan, it cant do more than that), has very reasonable - not amazing but reasonable VPN throughput speeds, and is really quite a capable little device.  Moving up in the range you get things like better NAT or VPN throughput, then higher again you will get multi gig all the way up to 10gig

Every single brand has bugs, undiscovered security issues etc.  In fact, there are not a whole lot of different chip platforms to choose form when making a router like these, so a lot of the base code comes from the manufacturer of the chipset itself and is then modified and expanded on by the vendor. TP-Link are actually very proactive in fixing issues and increasing functionality compared to some brands.  

  @GRL    @NeilR_M 

Thanks for the updates.  Everything makes complete sense, and I guess I should know better - having been experienced this road 1000 times with 1000 different products!  I guess sometimes I just want to ask a simple question and get hit with so many quirky posts you start to doubt reality.

Thanks!