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Wireless Routers

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    • I am looking for a wireless router for my home and home office. I am getting new cable and it comes with a modem, but I decided not to rent their wireless router and to go off on my own. I have been doing some research and reading reviews. Trying to marry functionality, speed and price. I have it narrowed down to:

    Trendnet AC 1900 - ~$130

    Netgear Nighthawk AC 1900 - ~$180

    I know the Netgear name and have had Netgear before. I am not familiar with Trendnet, but reviews are good for throughput.

    Thoughts, suggestions?
     
    buckeyebri said:
    I am looking for a wireless router for my home and home office. I am getting new cable and it comes with a modem, but I decided not to rent their wireless router and to go off on my own. I have been doing some research and reading reviews. Trying to marry functionality, speed and price. I have it narrowed down to:

    Trendnet AC 1900 - ~$130

    Netgear Nighthawk AC 1900 - ~$180

    I know the Netgear name and have had Netgear before. I am not familiar with Trendnet, but reviews are good for throughput.

    Thoughts, suggestions?
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    If you have Tmobile you can get an ASUS AC1900 for a $25 deposit or buy it outright for $100

    outside of that http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/tools/rankers/router/view this place had good reviews and pretty thorough testing
     
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    I have the ASUS RT-N66U Dual-Band Wireless-N900 Gigabit Router which has been great
    I was so tired of router issues that I paid more than I wanted.. but got rid of my issues
    (large house, PCs/Macs/laptops/printers/smartphones everywhere)
    but now the new Comcast modem I have also includes wireless without the need for an addl router...
    and son is having zero problems with that as well
     
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    One thing you need to know about the Comcast routers is that they can open that up as a "hotspot" for anyone in the area that can connect through their Comcast account. I feel it is better to buy your own modem and wireless router so you can lock it down.

    I believe my home network Wifi router is a Netgear that is 4-5 years old and still humming along like new. We started using the Apple AirPort stations at some of our offices for work since they are very easy to set up and pretty damn solid connection even far away from the base.
     
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    The simplest answer is that they are all slightly flaky, but when you get a higher end one, that happens a bit less.

    I just bought a Nighthawk 1900 (refurbished) to replace my failing RT-N66U (which was a well reviewed and still well liked unit, it's just been super flaky for me and has been repurposed as my road router for outdoor tournaments and viewing via ipad).

    Beyond reliability, range and speed, the big advantage of the higher end routers is the ability to monitor and control the traffic flow. So when I want to play a game on my 360, I can include settings to make sure my wife's Netflix feed doesn't suck up every ounce of the download and upload bandwidth (the latter is overlooked by most).

    Trendnet entered the market like Brother and other budget products and really carved out a nice place for themselves in the market.
     
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    jwinslow said:
    Beyond reliability, range and speed, the big advantage of the higher end routers is the ability to monitor and control the traffic flow. So when I want to play a game on my 360, I can include settings to make sure my wife's Netflix feed doesn't suck up every ounce of the download and upload bandwidth (the latter is overlooked by most).
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    Any chance you're using DD-WRT?
     
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    So I bought the Netgear Nighthawk and it has a 2.4 GHz and a 5 GHz setting. For some reason I have only one device connected to the 5GHz and I am not sure how I did that. The rest, including my work computer are connected to the 2.4 and I can't figure out how to get them moved to the 5GHz. @jwinslow have you experienced this?
     
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    buckeyebri said:
    So I bought the Netgear Nighthawk and it has a 2.4 GHz and a 5 GHz setting. For some reason I have only one device connected to the 5GHz and I am not sure how I did that. The rest, including my work computer are connected to the 2.4 and I can't figure out how to get them moved to the 5GHz. @jwinslow have you experienced this?
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    Is the laptop newer? I believe the end devices have to support that frequency to function properly.
     
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