Reading through a bunch of the wireless router stuff has made my head dizzy. I'm ready to upgrade from my Linksys E3000, due it's total lack of 5ghz range and my desire to start moving away from the crowded 2.4ghz stuff.
Plan "A" was to go "all out" and buy a Netgear R7000 and put DD-WRT on it, as I heard it's quite the beast, but the Netgear firmware is terribly buggy. I would then need to buy a new adapter for my HTPC along with a USB 3.0 add-in card to support it (I was looking at the Edimax EW-7822UAC for $30, along with a $20 Inateck USB 3.0 board). Of course, that would only give my primary HTPC AC1200 and not the full "AC1900" of the R7000.
SO, plan B is now to buy two of some wireless router and set one up at each end of the house, then wire everything into them. Of course, I'd love to just buy two R7000s, but I don't have the cash for that (and wouldn't want to dump that much money into it anyway). I'm guessing that whatever I buy needs to be compatible with DD-WRT so I can accomplish this. Also, I'd like to stay under $250 total for both routers (as that was my original cost for the R7000 + adapter stuff). I'll probably also leave my Linksys E3000 setup for any leftover 2.4ghz networking needs.
Any recommendations? Or should I stick with Plan A?
P.S. Of course, Tomato firmware support would be fine too, so long as it can do the bridging over wireless thing.
Plan "A" was to go "all out" and buy a Netgear R7000 and put DD-WRT on it, as I heard it's quite the beast, but the Netgear firmware is terribly buggy. I would then need to buy a new adapter for my HTPC along with a USB 3.0 add-in card to support it (I was looking at the Edimax EW-7822UAC for $30, along with a $20 Inateck USB 3.0 board). Of course, that would only give my primary HTPC AC1200 and not the full "AC1900" of the R7000.
SO, plan B is now to buy two of some wireless router and set one up at each end of the house, then wire everything into them. Of course, I'd love to just buy two R7000s, but I don't have the cash for that (and wouldn't want to dump that much money into it anyway). I'm guessing that whatever I buy needs to be compatible with DD-WRT so I can accomplish this. Also, I'd like to stay under $250 total for both routers (as that was my original cost for the R7000 + adapter stuff). I'll probably also leave my Linksys E3000 setup for any leftover 2.4ghz networking needs.
Any recommendations? Or should I stick with Plan A?
P.S. Of course, Tomato firmware support would be fine too, so long as it can do the bridging over wireless thing.
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