TP-Link Archer C5400

[PhoenixV]

Will this new router be tested in the near future? It's getting good reviews....

 

[thiggins]

Will this new router be tested in the near future? It's getting good reviews....

No. C3150 and AD7200 are in queue

 

[mellojosh]

No. C3150 and AD7200 are in queue

I hate to ask the same question, but now that the C3150 and AD7200 have reviews, can this one be revisited? I am interested in finding something that has the same performance for both range and throughput on both 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz bands as the C3150, but in a triband router (the c3150 blows the EA9500, RT-AC5300 out of the water in terms of range performance, and tops the AD7200 in many categories, according to the tests on here). I am very interested in seeing if the C5400 performs more like the C3150 or the AD7200. It is difficult to tell since the C5400 has a design and antenna array like the AD7200, but has a band setup more like the C3150 with 1000Mbps on 2.4 and 2 different bands of 2167Mbps.

 

[pete y testing]

the c3150 blows the EA9500, RT-AC5300 out of the water in terms of range performance

no idea where you have read that but i can assure thats not the case and we are talkin g quite minimal differences

tri band router also will always have issues with cross talk between the two 5 gig transmissions

triband wont make your coverage or throughput any faster over the same dual band of the same class

C5400 performs more like the C3150

the performance between these will be the same as the asus rt-ac3100 and asus rt-ac5300

the AD7200

you do understand the ad7200 only has 1733M on 5 gig so isnt even in the same class as the other 2156M class routers

 

[mellojosh]

no idea where you have read that but i can assure thats not the case and we are talkin g quite minimal differences

tri band router also will always have issues with cross talk between the two 5 gig transmissions

triband wont make your coverage or throughput any faster over the same dual band of the same class



the performance between these will be the same as the asus rt-ac3100 and asus rt-ac5300




you do understand the ad7200 only has 1733M on 5 gig so isnt even in the same class as the other 2156M class routers

The place I "read" this information was from the router ranker section of this site. All numbers compared are from this site only and I also tried to make sure they were the same V9 testing process. See the attached. The C3150 for 5Ghz range, for example, has a higher throughput than the ranges for the other mentioned models.

I am going to stick with the 5Ghz range comparison for most of this for simplicity, but I see that other tests like the 5Ghz Max downlink, 5G avg throughput, and 2.4 G range are a pretty wide margin as well.

I understand that triband will not make wireless performance faster just by having another band, but it will give me the capability to create a mixed mode 5G network for my N devices and another AC only network, which I believe will give me better performance on AC capable devices while still being able to serve my N only capable devices.

As far as the comparison to the AD7200, I was only stating that the physical design of this router is the same as the C5400 VS the physical design of the C3150. Since the C5400 is not reviewed, I am forced to look at something similar. In terms of physical design, I would think to look at the C3200 or AD7200 (Both of which have different 2.4G and 5G theoretical throughputs, as well as amount of antennas.) It is concerning to me that the C3200 is ranked 4th in the router chart, and that some of the stats I am concerned about, like 5ghz range, are very different on the C3200 vs C3150.

This is exactly why I am asking for testing on the C5400, because if the wireless performance is not affected by a physical design change from C3150 and I can get 2 5G bands, I would prefer that. But if by changing the design, or even adding additional bands, degrades performance and the C5400 starts getting results like the AD7200 or C3200 (e.g. C3150 Downlink 5G Range: 259.5Mbps; C3200 Downlink 5G Range: 102.2Mbps) then I think I would stick with a dual band vs triband.

 

[thiggins]

If you look at the profile plots (throughput vs. attenuation), you'll see the differences are not that big.
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/tool...0/2619-tplink-archerc3150/2694-linksys-ea9500

 

[GBAllison]

The 5400 is TP-LINK's top of the line, latest-generation AC tri-band, and should definitely get reviewed.

The 7200 review shouldn't make a 5400 review unnecessary. The 7200 only has a single, older 5 GHz radio ... "essentially an AC2600 class Archer C2600, with a single-stream 60 GHz 802.11ad radio thrown in to inflate the front-of-box number. (Maximum link rate math works out to 800 Mbps (2.4 GHz) + 1733 Mbps (5 GHz) + 4600 Mbps (60 GHz) = 7133, rounded up to 7200.) [...] You would be forgiven is you mistook the AD7200 for TP-LINK's tri-radio 4x4 AC5400 class Archer C5400, which we haven't yet tested"

And the 3150 review shouldn't make the 5400 review unnecessary either. It's last year's generation.

 

[occamsrazor]

Just curious if anyone has since had the chance to compare the C5400 vs C3150. Mostly interested in single client 5Ghz speeds, but also wondering about how the different antenna designs might affect these speeds.

 

[occamsrazor]

Well I bit the bullet and bought one. Will post my observations here...

https://forums.smallnetbuilder.com/...c1900-3x3-access-point-or-router-as-ap.38491/

Any questions let me know (though note I am using it as an access point only)

 

[occamsrazor]

Just FYI for users of the v1 hardware, there was a firmware update in late July 2017:

http://www.tp-link.com/en/download/Archer-C5400_V1.html#Firmware

Says new features but am not sure what they are.

For reference, here's the link to v2 hardware firmware:

http://www.tp-link.com/en/download/Archer-C5400_V2.html#Firmware