The Netgear AC1900 (r7000) is about the fastest/most advanced router you can buy as a consumer today. It's a dual core router with a 1 Ghz CPU. The new Asus RT-AC68U uses the same CPU, but only clocks it up to 800 Mhz. (not that I believe you'll see the difference, but hey). The Netgear's firmware seems much more mature than the Asus' though. The Netgear can also be flashed with DD-WRT should you want to do this. There's already a version available (not sure about the Asus).

What I like about it very much is that it is supposed to have superb range, and it supports dualband and it also features a VPN server (openVPN)

This new Netgear router has been for sale for a while in the US now, but not yet in Europe and I'm really looking at the shops on a daily basis now because I really want to replace my ageing D-Link DIR-655.