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For Wireless Range

  • ASUS RT-AC66U

    Votes: 3 23.1%

  • NETGEAR R7000 Nighthawk AC1900

    Votes: 6 46.2%

  • Other

    Votes: 4 30.8%
  • Total voters
    13
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boxito

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Hi i want to buy a Router and i read positive reviews ASUS RT-AC66U Or NETGEAR R7000 Nighthawk AC1900 which you recomend for Range

thanks
 
Hi,
If you want to compare between two fairly, IMHO, it should be between AC68U vs. R7000.
No one can answer your particular question regarding the wireless range of AC66U. Too many variables. Do you have all AC clients?
 
TonyH said:
Hi,
If you want to compare between two fairly, IMHO, it should be between AC68U vs. R7000.
No one can answer your particular question regarding the wireless range of AC66U. Too many variables. Do you have all AC clients?
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Hi i'm looking for a router with range on my house i can't get the signal reach all the house and was thinking on buy a new one but i read many reviews on AC66U that the range is good i was hopping to see if the netgear have better range
 
boxito said:
thanks for your help
Do you know how long the AC66R wireless range?

Thanks and for the money do you think the ASUS RT-N66U Dual-Band Wireless-N900 is a good choise of the AC66R is better ?
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I won;t speak as to the RT-66U as I have no experience with it.
As far as the RT-AC66R was concerned:
I live in a 2 story 1200 sq. ft. townhouse and never had any issues with the signal. As it seems the case with all wireless, 2.4Ghz penetrates better and goes further, 5G is less crowded and provides better link speed at the cost of distance and obstacle penetration. I had the AC-66 for a while at another location with it located in the front center room of the house. My neighbors told me they could see my network at the end of the block, 300+ feet away. N vs. AC is a choice that should consider whether you have or plan on having AC clients. I have the Asus USB-AC53 USB adapter and maintain a full max link speed of 866.5 mbps on both the AC-66R I had as well as on the AC-68R I currently have anywhere in my townhouse. For clarity the USB-AC53 is only a 2 stream device, thats why I don't get the full 1300 mbps, which would require a 3 stream device. Someone else may want to provide input on the N-56.
 
Hi thanks for all the help and can i ask with one you recomend

Asus Omni Antenna (WL-ANT-191)

or

Super Power Supply® 3 x 9dBi 2.4GHz 5GHz Dual Band WiFi RP-SMA Antenna for Routers ASUS RT-N16 RT-N66U RT-AC66U RT-AC1750 D-Link DIR-655 DIR-665 Buffalo WZR-HP-G450H TP-Link TL-WR1043ND TL-WR2543ND TL-WDR4300 Omni Directional Network Extension Mini PCIe PCI Cards Wireless WAN Repeater

dragon8452 said:
I won;t speak as to the RT-66U as I have no experience with it.
As far as the RT-AC66R was concerned:
I live in a 2 story 1200 sq. ft. townhouse and never had any issues with the signal. As it seems the case with all wireless, 2.4Ghz penetrates better and goes further, 5G is less crowded and provides better link speed at the cost of distance and obstacle penetration. I had the AC-66 for a while at another location with it located in the front center room of the house. My neighbors told me they could see my network at the end of the block, 300+ feet away. N vs. AC is a choice that should consider whether you have or plan on having AC clients. I have the Asus USB-AC53 USB adapter and maintain a full max link speed of 866.5 mbps on both the AC-66R I had as well as on the AC-68R I currently have anywhere in my townhouse. For clarity the USB-AC53 is only a 2 stream device, thats why I don't get the full 1300 mbps, which would require a 3 stream device. Someone else may want to provide input on the N-56.
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being an rt-ac66u user who cant wait to get an r7000. i would go with the nighthawk. my rt-ac66u does not have very good 2.4GHz range and i feel it would be much improved with the r7000. also the r7000 usb 3 nas speeds r amazing. i would be lying if that wernt half the reason i want the router so bad. so if you dont use NAS i guess consider the rt-ac66u. but if you want a good nas drive. r7000 can handle over 50MB/s up and down via usb 3 i believe. along with having slightly superior wifi. i think its the better choice.
 
USB3 itself might be rated that high, however over the network and the fact the router does not have that fast of a processor compared to a full blown NAS making it a bottleneck you're NOT going to be seeing those speeds. best to get a NAS.

Also USB3 makes noise in the 2.4Ghz band and will decrease throughput as a result as well as more loss, errors, etc.
 
Right... a disk attachted to a WiFi router will not provide excellent speeds because these routers have a rather slow CPU to do the file system management overhead.

Best speeds are when the router formats the drive as a Linux format rather than NTFS or FAT. But even so, the speed will be orders of magnitude slower than with a PC using that disk.
 
boxito said:
Hi thanks for all the help and can i ask with one you recomend

Asus Omni Antenna (WL-ANT-191)

or

Super Power Supply® 3 x 9dBi 2.4GHz 5GHz Dual Band WiFi RP-SMA Antenna for Routers ASUS RT-N16 RT-N66U RT-AC66U RT-AC1750 D-Link DIR-655 DIR-665 Buffalo WZR-HP-G450H TP-Link TL-WR1043ND TL-WR2543ND TL-WDR4300 Omni Directional Network Extension Mini PCIe PCI Cards Wireless WAN Repeater
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So about that antenna...anyone?
 
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