Guys,
In my old 1700 sq ft townhouse (3-Story) I had a Netgear R7000 hooked to the cable modem in the master bedroom closet. It worked best up there and was able to get a strong signal on the bottom floor.
I just moved into a 4,000 sq ft 3-Story home and am trying to optimize the network. There is Cat-5 run to 9 of the rooms in the house including the basement, office, kitchen, living room, and bedrooms. I installed a gigabit switch into the basement when I moved in and terminated the connections down there. I temporarily had the cable modem and R7000 in my office. This is in a front corner of the home on the main (2nd) floor and the wires were a mess. I decided to move the cable modem and router to the basement and use the R7000 as a router only and turn off the wireless radios / access point as the unit is mounted to a wood plank on the walls and there are metal beams right above where it is mounted.
I picked up an Asus RT-AC87R to use in Access Point only mode yesterday and I am not that happy with the coverage / performance. I temporarily have it in the office and I can't get full 125Mbps down on the upstairs 3rd floor. Should I return the RT-AC87R and get another R7000 for the access point as well?
I know the R7000 was great WAN-LAN and LAN-WAN performance which is why I thought it would be a good choice for the router portion.
Any input is appreciated, as of now, I think I may return the AC87R and get something else because it seems to be buggy and I have had to restart it a bunch of times to regain performance. It was around $250 and I'm not sure it is worth it over another R7000 or AC68U.
In my old 1700 sq ft townhouse (3-Story) I had a Netgear R7000 hooked to the cable modem in the master bedroom closet. It worked best up there and was able to get a strong signal on the bottom floor.
I just moved into a 4,000 sq ft 3-Story home and am trying to optimize the network. There is Cat-5 run to 9 of the rooms in the house including the basement, office, kitchen, living room, and bedrooms. I installed a gigabit switch into the basement when I moved in and terminated the connections down there. I temporarily had the cable modem and R7000 in my office. This is in a front corner of the home on the main (2nd) floor and the wires were a mess. I decided to move the cable modem and router to the basement and use the R7000 as a router only and turn off the wireless radios / access point as the unit is mounted to a wood plank on the walls and there are metal beams right above where it is mounted.
I picked up an Asus RT-AC87R to use in Access Point only mode yesterday and I am not that happy with the coverage / performance. I temporarily have it in the office and I can't get full 125Mbps down on the upstairs 3rd floor. Should I return the RT-AC87R and get another R7000 for the access point as well?
I know the R7000 was great WAN-LAN and LAN-WAN performance which is why I thought it would be a good choice for the router portion.
Any input is appreciated, as of now, I think I may return the AC87R and get something else because it seems to be buggy and I have had to restart it a bunch of times to regain performance. It was around $250 and I'm not sure it is worth it over another R7000 or AC68U.