Needing a new router

[peste19]

I currently have a netgear wndr-3700v1 and its currently giving me wireless problems for some reason the wireless part is deactivating while the wired continues to work, making me have to reset it a couple of times a day/week. I am looking for a new one, major features for me that it must have is wireless N, gigabyte ethernet and preferably long range, i dont really have a price range and would like for it to have the latest technology so it doesnt become outdated fast, any recommendations?

 

[remixedcat]

A little of my experience on the Amped Wireless R20000G

Intro: The R20000G was extremely easy to setup. 3 steps and in 2 minutes and I was online. It took another minute to configure my WiFi preferences and another for the router to reboot to complete that. All done in 5 minutes. The setup wizard is very well written and detailed.

Wireless performance: I got very good performance throughout my odd mixed construction house. My house was built and renovated through the 1910s the 1970s and a few years ago and it's always a construction zone with materials ranging from thick plaster to drywall for the walls, lots of metal used in the dropped ceilings with fluorescent lights, thick staircasing, thick floors in some areas, and I got big metal doors. I get solid 5 bars within the confines of the house (1800sq ft) and 4-5 bars 34dBm @ 100% on my back porch and at the mailbox across the street I get 4 bars. I can even walk 100 some feet down the road and still stream videos in HD! I can walk around 200 some feet away and play SD videos. Reading for that: 225ft down the road from the R20000G about 3-4 houses down -67dBm @ 86%
Please note: These readings were taken with the Amped Wifi analytics tool from Google Play.

Xbox Live Performance: No disconnections! They played Dead Space 3 for 4 whole days. Also on Black Ops 2: Zombies the performance was excellent... maintained full green bars through hours of play! Both Xboxes were wireless.

USB Performance: Transfer rates were around 3.5-4.5MBps within the LAN and the same over the WAN.

Streaming laptop 1 (Atheros wireless G)
Was able to stream HD videos 125 ft away and SD videos 215ft away. Very impressed.
Streaming laptop 2 (Realtek wireless N)
Was able to stream HD 1080p videos 175-180 ft away and HD 720p videos 214ft away and SD videos 325ft away. Very impressed.

Pros:
* Hardcore coverage!
* Easy setup
* Lots of features
* Dual band
* Guest networks
* Local and Internet USB sharing
* Good QoS options
* Very good firewall
* VLANs
* Static DHCP
* Ships with UPNP and WPS disabled (a good thing to have good security)
* DDNS

Cons:
* Somewhat slow USB transfer speed in comparison to direct USB connection
* No print server

 

[peste19]

A little of my experience on the Amped Wireless R20000G

Intro: The R20000G was extremely easy to setup. 3 steps and in 2 minutes and I was online. It took another minute to configure my WiFi preferences and another for the router to reboot to complete that. All done in 5 minutes. The setup wizard is very well written and detailed.

Wireless performance: I got very good performance throughout my odd mixed construction house. My house was built and renovated through the 1910s the 1970s and a few years ago and it's always a construction zone with materials ranging from thick plaster to drywall for the walls, lots of metal used in the dropped ceilings with fluorescent lights, thick staircasing, thick floors in some areas, and I got big metal doors. I get solid 5 bars within the confines of the house (1800sq ft) and 4-5 bars 34dBm @ 100% on my back porch and at the mailbox across the street I get 4 bars. I can even walk 100 some feet down the road and still stream videos in HD! I can walk around 200 some feet away and play SD videos. Reading for that: 225ft down the road from the R20000G about 3-4 houses down -67dBm @ 86%
Please note: These readings were taken with the Amped Wifi analytics tool from Google Play.

Xbox Live Performance: No disconnections! They played Dead Space 3 for 4 whole days. Also on Black Ops 2: Zombies the performance was excellent... maintained full green bars through hours of play! Both Xboxes were wireless.

USB Performance: Transfer rates were around 3.5-4.5MBps within the LAN and the same over the WAN.

Streaming laptop 1 (Atheros wireless G)
Was able to stream HD videos 125 ft away and SD videos 215ft away. Very impressed.
Streaming laptop 2 (Realtek wireless N)
Was able to stream HD 1080p videos 175-180 ft away and HD 720p videos 214ft away and SD videos 325ft away. Very impressed.

Pros:
* Hardcore coverage!
* Easy setup
* Lots of features
* Dual band
* Guest networks
* Local and Internet USB sharing
* Good QoS options
* Very good firewall
* VLANs
* Static DHCP
* Ships with UPNP and WPS disabled (a good thing to have good security)
* DDNS

Cons:
* Somewhat slow USB transfer speed in comparison to direct USB connection
* No print server

thanks for your opinion and review, anyone else have any opinions?

I have been looking through and was between the netgear centria,netgear n6300 and the asus RT-AC66U and maybe the one above, kind of throwing me off the having the ac network.

Probably a dumb question but these routers are all draft, when the wireless spec is finalized, is it possible to upgrade these draft routers through a software update to have the ac network standard or is it a hardware limitation?

 

[remixedcat]

Please note: In order to obtain the full benefits of 802.11ac you must use a USB3.0 adapter or a PCIE card.

 

[peste19]

Please note: In order to obtain the full benefits of 802.11ac you must use a USB3.0 adapter or a PCIE card.

yes i am aware of that but thanks for the warning, there are a couple of usb2.0 ac adapters but that is just ripping off the clients because they cant provide the full transfer speeds.

 

[stevech]

From what I've read, and this is quite early in the life of '11ac, speeds beyond those of 11n's best require costly gear AND a really short distance/strong two-way signal.

One wonders about the practicality of 11ac.

 

[remixedcat]

yes i am aware of that but thanks for the warning, there are a couple of usb2.0 ac adapters but that is just ripping off the clients because they cant provide the full transfer speeds.

Yeah and most of the tests I've seen aren't even getting that close to .ac speeds

However...

I know that Amped Wireless is going to release 802.11ac gear soon and their 802.11ac adapter is USB3.0.

 

[stevech]

I assert that it's not a vendor issue. It's the laws of physics, and the required SNR to get those really high data rates in a non-line-of-sight world. Just fine for point to point LOS, 10 ft.