Netgear R7000 vs Linksys wrt1900ac vs ?

[Marcvs]

So Got my BT Fibre sorted and now looking at routers.

Have a bundget of around 200 quid though can go up a bit if something really amazing is around.

Would like 4or5 GbE Ports.
Ability to backup to (a small NAS) would be useful - especially if its time-machine enabled
Mac Filtering
Supports ~25 Devices
VPN Into Local Network
port Mapping (I assume this is standard on most routers now)

[Alieno]

I've never done something like you need with a NAS directly connected to the router, GbE ports are pretty much standard 10/100/1000 so it's fine you normally get 4. Support 25 devices I suppose on wifi? all you've put in the list can be done by standard. I've tried with both linksys and netgear they are both reliable and easy to set up.

[herulach]

I've an Asus ac66 that ddoes everything you need.

[Marcvs]

Including time machine?

Ill check it out.

[herulach]

Including time machine?

Ill check it out.

Isn't time machine a feature of your nas? Or did you mean you want to connect a drive to it and use it as a nas? In which case no it doesn't do time machine, just SMB, HTTP and asus' aicloud feature.

[Marcvs]

The thing that is swinging the netgear for me at the moment is you can plug in a drive and time machine it - which saves me a lot of aggro for her macbook .