R700 vs R8300

[usamario]

R700 vs R8300

Hi:
I need some advice or info regading Netgear Routers;
I have own the R700 for at least 2 1/2 years and I thought it was time to upgrade.
I have running the vortex-merlin with my R700, the router is the best but with merlins firmware; exceptional.

Purchased the Asus RT-AC88U to continue using Merlin's firmware, however the Asus router would not boot unless I disconnected all the Ethernet ports and knowing how difficult is to deal with Asus support and considering that I was within the return time, I returned the RT-AC88U and exchanged it for WRT3200 and a Linksys 8 port switch.

The WRT3200 was much slower and did not reached as far as R700, I thought it could be the firmware, I decided to switch to DD-WRT, just to find out it was slower than the Linksys Stock firmware, I decided to try OpenWRT just to get lost in the 100 of settings one can tweak, I got out as fast I could and returned the Linksys router.

So I am back to the great R700 running vortex-merlin firmware, this router gets me 110 to 120 trough out my house.
I read somewhere that purchasing something greater than a 1900 browser won't matter much because as of now there are no clients that can handle that speed.

So my question:
What would I gain purchasing a Netgear R8300?
I do some streaming and video and music, file transfers with a QNAP and Netgear ReadyNas. I do to much surfing.
Would I obtain better speeds?
Better throughout range?
Any gains with the 2 port aggregation?

Any advise on this subject would be helpful and appreciated.
Thank you
Mario

 

[pete y testing]

So my question:
What would I gain purchasing a Netgear R8300?

in my testing with the r8500 compared to the r7000 there was better coverage with the r8500 but not a massive amount

Would I obtain better speeds?

depends on your client adapters , if they can do above 1300M then yes you will see faster throughput as the speed is set by the clients capability to sync

Any gains with the 2 port aggregation?

sure if you have a nas with the same 2 ports and capable of link aggregation you would then be able to have 2 comps pulling 110MB/s each from the nas instead of 110MB/s shared , otherwise its of no benefit

i suggest you have a look through tim's router ranker and the coverage each provides , if the r7000 provides the coverage you need and want just stay with it

 

[usamario]

Thank you for your reply, I will take a closer look.
Mario