I am seeing conflicting reviews on the 68P vs the R7000 and was looking for your opinions if you have tested them.
My Cisco C819HWD-A-K9 ISR Router somehow had it's WAN interface fried or it simply died. It's a enterprise-class device that was giving me 105+Mbps over wireless on my 105Mbps Comcast connection. We are a family of 6 with 5 users of laptops. phones, three XBox 360s and whichever of our friends or family comes over with a phone or laptop. A $30 special is not going to cut it for us
I have 1700 sq ft to cover and my rack is in my home office which is at the far end of that (55 x 24 rectangle with a 16 x 22 foot great room located on the back dead center of that). There are two concrete walls that I have to penetrate, one out of my home office and one into the great room. With my old Cisco I had decent coverage at the farthest end of the house. With the E4200 (v1) I had before that, it didn't quite get to the far end which is where the bedrooms are.
Even though I am a Network Engineer (Cisco CCNP R&S and CCNA Wireless and Voice), I have a simplistic network approach at home. I'd like to be able to stick to a single SSID if possible and have the clients determine 2.4GHz or 5GHz as needed like I can with the C819, but I can give that up. I pretty much just set up WPA2 with a long random key and do some port forwarding for security cameras and my alarm system. I use SSH to configure, but HTTPS is fine if needed. That's about it. No VPNs. I do want to add a home media drive so we can share movies and pictures and not have people access my PC directly as well as some backups.
Thanks
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My Cisco C819HWD-A-K9 ISR Router somehow had it's WAN interface fried or it simply died. It's a enterprise-class device that was giving me 105+Mbps over wireless on my 105Mbps Comcast connection. We are a family of 6 with 5 users of laptops. phones, three XBox 360s and whichever of our friends or family comes over with a phone or laptop. A $30 special is not going to cut it for us
I have 1700 sq ft to cover and my rack is in my home office which is at the far end of that (55 x 24 rectangle with a 16 x 22 foot great room located on the back dead center of that). There are two concrete walls that I have to penetrate, one out of my home office and one into the great room. With my old Cisco I had decent coverage at the farthest end of the house. With the E4200 (v1) I had before that, it didn't quite get to the far end which is where the bedrooms are.
Even though I am a Network Engineer (Cisco CCNP R&S and CCNA Wireless and Voice), I have a simplistic network approach at home. I'd like to be able to stick to a single SSID if possible and have the clients determine 2.4GHz or 5GHz as needed like I can with the C819, but I can give that up. I pretty much just set up WPA2 with a long random key and do some port forwarding for security cameras and my alarm system. I use SSH to configure, but HTTPS is fine if needed. That's about it. No VPNs. I do want to add a home media drive so we can share movies and pictures and not have people access my PC directly as well as some backups.
Thanks
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