Router preference if putting multiples in a house?

[bthessel]

Does one router work better than others if you are setting up multiples in the house. I am going to reuse the cat-5 phone runs in my house (6 years old) and convert them to data. I would like to then have a 3 dual band routers set up, 1 on each floor to give me maximum wifi coverage throughout the whole house. Any advice on if one router or another would be better?

 

[bthessel]

oh, right now I have 3 Linksys 54gl that are running tomato and are connecting via WDS and 3 Asus RT-N12 running dd-wrt and connected via WDS to provide N coverage in the house. I am hoping to get rid of all of them to get down to 2 or 3 routers.

 

[sdeleeuw]

How big is the house? You have 6 access points presently?

 

[thiggins]

You could even keep the routers you have unless you have a need for N speed. Once you get rid of WDS bridging you'll notice a throughput increase.

If you want to buy new dual-band N, get the NETGEAR WNDR3700;.

 

[bthessel]

Yes, in thinking about it, once I eliminate the need for WDS to connect different areas of the house that had multiple devices and use switches at each spot I don't really have the need for so heavy of wireless coverage. I think I am just going to use one of the Linksys for G coverage and as the router and then keep one of th Asus N points as an AP for the N stuff (iPad, iPods, new laptop).