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christianh
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Plain and simple. What's the best allround router at the moment?
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If you don't own an Xbox (at least one connected wirelessly), I'd recommend the ASUS RT-N66U. 56U if you don't need three stream.
A realistic answer: for two WiFi routers in the same 802.11 mode (b/g/n), communicating with the same client hardware, same locations, most all will have very close to the same performance - because the transmitter power and receiver sensitivity is so nearly identical. The laws of physics overwhelmingly govern the data rates (ratio of signal to noise+interference, or SINR), and the transmitter amplifier for OFDM (11g/n) requires the 6dB+ headroom - this is due to the 802.11/OFDM specs. Things like noise-power-bandwidth product, adjacent channel interference (since WiFi cannot use channel-wide (20 or 40MHz) filters; by "channel", I mean the next non-overlapping channel. And so on. This is good, because we all benefit from the standards and interoperable products..
I have RT-AC66U (a little better than N66U). Still same performance as DIR-655, why?.
Sad true. But each vendors got low-end, middle-end, high-end segment....There are a relatively small number of WiFi chip vendors- maybe 6 or so. These appear in dozens of products.
I think it's more about design and because people don't like antennas.Many routers have internal non-changeable antennas
some of the high-end multi-stream MIMO routers need internal antennas because there are many and the spacing (in wavelengths) is critical for spatial diversity to work as intended.
And too, internal antennas are cheaper and invisible.
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