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[Edinburgh_lad]

What is your best modem/router for GUI? And why?

I found the GUI of Draytek a bit 80s/90s in style, whereas that of the Zyxel quite clunky and slow. Fritzbox's is not too bad.

What's your experience? Screenshots welcome.

[tubaman]

I've always been pretty happy with the old style ZyXel GUI. It's easy enough to use and generally reasonably responsive. Why they decided to update it a few years ago I do not know as the new one just seems harder to use to me, but then I'm generally a 'if it ain't broke don't fix it' type of person.
I did have a Netgear some years ago and the GUI on that was ok too, unlike Technicolor whose GUIs, in my experience, are awkward and sluggish.

[tonygibbs16]

I too liked the old Zyxel GUI.

But I have got used to the new one, especially since it is on new Zyxel kit.
    - see attached screenshots of new and old.

The menu items are the same, but in a menu on the right hand side instead of across the bottom. The content is also very much the same.

It is also the same look and feel when I updated the firmware in my venerable Zyxel VMG1312-B10D in Q4 2020.
                  - I wanted the bug fixes, and the new GUI came with it.

Cheers,
    Tony

[vic0239]

I found the GUI of Draytek a bit 80s/90s in style

I agree. Quite difficult to find what you are looking for in the menus. The main downside for me was that practically any parameter change required a reboot of the router. Not ideal.
I'm currently running a MikroTik router and find the GUI menu structure quite intuitive. There is also a Windows app and one for mobile devices.