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By the way how does smart connect work? I did some reading. From what I understand, only one ssid is used where it combines both 2.4ghz and 5ghz. The router will then auto allocate the appropriate bandwidth to your clients depending their needs. I am curious to know if let's say my phone...

Haha ya, that's why I was wondering if anything has improved since then. I am using 1gbps fiber plan, if i dont use the 5ghz bandwith [most of my devices do support wireless ac] if would be a waste.

I think I might have a typo, I don't live in a house but I live in a 1 level apartment of 127 square meter / 1367 square foot. The walls are all thick concrete. On 2.4ghz, most of the areas I can get signal. But on 5 ghz the signals are terrible to no signal at all. After looking at how my lan...

Did not try other brand, but my house is quite small. Anyway the lan points shown in the picture is generally where electric sockets are available too. If the house is too big and they are too much far away problems like that (slow connection) can happen, If penetration and range has not...

I have used powerline before but my house wiring seems to have interference with it. The speed was so bad going wireless gave better results. My powerline adaptors had a a warning led to indicate that there is something causing interference, no matter where I placed it the warning was always...

yup, i knew center should always be the best spot but I can't put there. The best centralize location i can put is room 2. But can the newer routers solve my problem? Do they have better penetration and longer range then my existing routers?

I am currently using 3 routers, rt-ac68u, rt-ac56u and dlink 850l. Seeing that a few new models of router has released since then, I was thinking if range and especially wall penetration technology has improved. So far from ads of the new routers only emphasize on faster bandwidth... I am more...

Oh I see, will reset it when I am free. Thanks for your advice.

Thanks for the info, I didn't reset to factory defaults after I flashed to the latest firmware. Is that needed? Its working fine though. If there is no need then I would not like to reset it. I managed to access parental control by adding /ParentalControl.asp in the url address to my RT-AC56U...

I have 2 routers at home main is RT-AC68U and the other in ap mode is RT-AC56U. I just noticed that my AC68U has parental control, Traffic manager and Aicloud at the left panel, but my AC56U does not have these options. [updating to latest firmware does not help either] Are the options for...

I am currently paying $48.88 SGD per month for 150Mbps but my ISP has a new plan which is $49.99 SGD per month for 1Gpbs. I have signed up for upgrade and have been informed that it will be implemented on Q3 2014 for me. After seriously thinking through, I will be doing wiring instead. Seems...

unfortunately, its too tedious to use do wiring from lvl 1 to lvl 2. I have signed up to upgrade my fiber plan to 1gbps which will be arriving in a few months time. I need to upgrade my rt-n66u and ea-n66 to the AC versions in order to utilize the speed fully but there isn't any AC version...

Oops, I forgot to mention about that. The N15U was given to me by my ISP for free. On lvl 2, I am not so focused on how good the N15U can broadcasts its wireless speed but more on the speed through LAN cable. So in order to safe some money, I reused the N15U and did not upgrade it. For...

My fiber modem is in the same house and its connected by lan cable to my rt-n66u router.

Hi, Currently I have my setup done as shown below for quite sometime: Is this the most efficient way to setup? My current fiber plan is 150Mbps. I did not use any repeaters or range extender as I heard they slow down the bandwidths. My goal is to get the best speeds without compromise...