Recent content by debest

Well my brother gave me a gift card to Amazon for Christmas, so I decided to use the credit on a TP-Link EAP245 access point. I could have gone with the re-purposed WiFi router as suggested above, but the wife didn't like the power cable that would have needed to be trailed to the location where...

Interesting. That access point is about the same price as the Asus AC66U_B1 (which you have pointed out can be configured to be an access point). Other than the obvious differences (form factor and PoE), would you expect them to perform roughly equally as access points (stability, range, speed...

Can I assume that any router in this price range is able to be set in "access point mode"? It's been some time since I bought a router device, and this is not a feature that I ever see touted in specifications or on review sites. Sorry for being naturally skeptical, but it seems odd that...

My current cheap access point (TP-Link TL-WA901N) is garbage. As the amount of wireless traffic in the house has risen, so has the instability (WiFi for all devices slowing down and freezing until rebooting the AP, fixes it for a short time, wash rinse repeat). Yes, the firmware is up to date...