Hey folks, thanks for all the great advice you guys give on here, its greatly appreciated!
I have been running an old Asus RT-AC66U with a Motorola MB8600 Modem. It looks like after 5 years my router is quitting on me. I get perfectly normal performance when hard wired to the router but the WIFI is basically unusable, so its time for an upgrade!
The issue I have is that I am currently on a temporary work assignment for another year, so we are in a rental home. I dont have the option of installing new cables etc. I am also limited in the location of of the router as there is a single access point. The home is 2000sqft, including a finished basement where our home office is located. Our Desktop is located down there and is on WIFI. On the main floor we have the router in the living room with a Nvidia Shield hardwired into the router. We then have the usual mix of devices, laptops, phones, Alexa, Nest etc. The upper floor of the home has only bedrooms and a bathroom so no devices dependant on WIFI, alough if we had connectivity for our phones etc that would be great.
We currently have 100Mb service, looking to move up to 300Mb in the next few weeks. Both my wife and I both are working from home right now and that can include some quite heavy data transfers. We are also "Cord Cutters" so we stream everything. I have like Asus products and have used them a lot in the past, including Merlin on my routers, but its been over 5 years since I have been looking at routers so Im not sure whats best at this point, Im open to pretty much anything. My own research has made me more confused than ever! Seems like a lot of noise over WIFI 6 and MU-MIMO, but it looks like quite a few experts say its not something to consider?
Any advice for a confused shopper?
I have been running an old Asus RT-AC66U with a Motorola MB8600 Modem. It looks like after 5 years my router is quitting on me. I get perfectly normal performance when hard wired to the router but the WIFI is basically unusable, so its time for an upgrade!
The issue I have is that I am currently on a temporary work assignment for another year, so we are in a rental home. I dont have the option of installing new cables etc. I am also limited in the location of of the router as there is a single access point. The home is 2000sqft, including a finished basement where our home office is located. Our Desktop is located down there and is on WIFI. On the main floor we have the router in the living room with a Nvidia Shield hardwired into the router. We then have the usual mix of devices, laptops, phones, Alexa, Nest etc. The upper floor of the home has only bedrooms and a bathroom so no devices dependant on WIFI, alough if we had connectivity for our phones etc that would be great.
We currently have 100Mb service, looking to move up to 300Mb in the next few weeks. Both my wife and I both are working from home right now and that can include some quite heavy data transfers. We are also "Cord Cutters" so we stream everything. I have like Asus products and have used them a lot in the past, including Merlin on my routers, but its been over 5 years since I have been looking at routers so Im not sure whats best at this point, Im open to pretty much anything. My own research has made me more confused than ever! Seems like a lot of noise over WIFI 6 and MU-MIMO, but it looks like quite a few experts say its not something to consider?
Any advice for a confused shopper?