Yeah, for the price NOTHING competes with these. If you have a houeshold with a lot of torrent or netflix traffic, this will let you easily manage traffic so you'll never even notice when someone starts up a stream or download.
My favorite thing to recommend with these is 4th or 5th gen apple airport extremes from ebay (A1408 or A1354) configured as access points. They aren't latest tech, wireless N only not AC, but they are 3x3 dual band with quality radios inside, plus they have a few ethernet ports on the airports you can plug other devices into as well.
For $150 you could buy my edgerouter and 2/3 airport extremes. Then you'll have whole house wifi coverage and a far superior router vs what you'd get spending $250 on a single device.