Hello guys,
I'm looking forward to buying a new router but can't decide what to buy. So let me explain my situation.
My appartment is about 55 m2, made out of reinforced concrete (AFAIK even the inside walls) and I'll have the router placed pretty close to the center of the appartment. Any point of the appartment will be closer than 10 m from the router with maximum 2 walls in between. I might move to a slightly bigger place in the future. Currently there are about 5 other networks visible in the appartment.
Right now I have a Linksys WRT54GL running DD-WRT and has two small problems:
- speed: wireless limited to ~2MB/s and WAN to LAN to maximul 4MB/s (torrents)
- unstable: happened more than once to loose settings after I unplugged it and right now I cannot restore some backup that I previously restored.
The current network consists of 1 media center, 1 PS3 (wired), 2 phones, 1 iPod, 2 laptops (wireless). Some of these devices are 802.11n capable.
So I am looking to replace the router with something that has gigabit LAN and 802.11n wireless, preferably 2.4/5GHz dualband with MIMO. I think 802.11ac is overkill. I want to keep it all in one place but, I might use the WRT as AP if the situation asks. I don't want to spend more than 75-80 euros (VAT included), 100 euros being the absolute maximum.
I was looking at a Mikrotik RB951G-2HnD that I could get for under 70 euros, but the fact that it doesn't have 5GHz wireless makes me think of consumer grade sollutions too (living in a block with quite a few other networks around). I was searching for other SOHO brands, but I wasn't able to find any other "all-in-one" sollutions. I am used with DD-WRT and I'm not affraid of Mikrotik's configuration process.
So what would you recommend?
Thank you in advance!
I'm looking forward to buying a new router but can't decide what to buy. So let me explain my situation.
My appartment is about 55 m2, made out of reinforced concrete (AFAIK even the inside walls) and I'll have the router placed pretty close to the center of the appartment. Any point of the appartment will be closer than 10 m from the router with maximum 2 walls in between. I might move to a slightly bigger place in the future. Currently there are about 5 other networks visible in the appartment.
Right now I have a Linksys WRT54GL running DD-WRT and has two small problems:
- speed: wireless limited to ~2MB/s and WAN to LAN to maximul 4MB/s (torrents)
- unstable: happened more than once to loose settings after I unplugged it and right now I cannot restore some backup that I previously restored.
The current network consists of 1 media center, 1 PS3 (wired), 2 phones, 1 iPod, 2 laptops (wireless). Some of these devices are 802.11n capable.
So I am looking to replace the router with something that has gigabit LAN and 802.11n wireless, preferably 2.4/5GHz dualband with MIMO. I think 802.11ac is overkill. I want to keep it all in one place but, I might use the WRT as AP if the situation asks. I don't want to spend more than 75-80 euros (VAT included), 100 euros being the absolute maximum.
I was looking at a Mikrotik RB951G-2HnD that I could get for under 70 euros, but the fact that it doesn't have 5GHz wireless makes me think of consumer grade sollutions too (living in a block with quite a few other networks around). I was searching for other SOHO brands, but I wasn't able to find any other "all-in-one" sollutions. I am used with DD-WRT and I'm not affraid of Mikrotik's configuration process.
So what would you recommend?
Thank you in advance!