Help choosing router for home network

[katabatik]

Hi

I've been reading SNB articles on choosing routers, the charts, etc, but I'm still lost. I guess that I'll specify my needs first:

Hardware that will be connected to the network:
- 2 laptops, one with an Intel Ultimate-N 6300 wireless network adapter and the other with an Atheros AR5B97 802.11 b/g/n wireless network adapter.
- 1 Brother MFC-J6910DW multifunction printer. Can be wired by ethernet or USB to router or used wirelessly.
- 1 Asus O!Play HDP-R1 media player (wired).
- Some kind of network attached storage. Haven't figure out that part yet, but I need it to play the movies on the media player and access music files (most of them in lossless format).
- 1 smartphone

Contents that will be accessed through the network:
- Wife is an YouTube addicted (wireless)
- VOIP (ethernet and wireless)
- Playing HD content through the media player (wired)
- Online gaming (wireless)
- Music streaming (ethernet and wireless)

I have no desktop. One of the laptops will be used wired most of the time but will be used wirelessly only.

Budget: about 200 Euros.

The network will be installed in a flat with 5 rooms and a total area of 90 square meters.

I hope that someone can point me in the right direction. I'm no network expert but I don't mind learning. Quite the contrary. I find the world of networking quite interesting.

Thanks

 

[StratmanX]

The network will be installed in a flat with 5 rooms and a total area of 90 square meters

90 meters squared???

I have an Intel 5300 (three antennas and link rate up to 450 Mbps like your Intel 6300) and a Roku 2 XS paired with a Netgear WNDR4500 and am happy. But I don't do wireless printing, use an external USB drive (yet) or do VOIP.

The best advice I can give you is to buy from a business that allows for returns without fees.

 

[katabatik]

Unfortunately, where I live, the only places that allow you to return computer gear if you're not happy with it have a very limited choice of routers. Buying from other places means getting it right the first time.

I am aware that I will have to install APs in order to have a good coverage of the house.