Hello all
I'm trying to upgrade my wireless speeds that I get in the upstairs area of my house. The router is located downstairs through many double brick walls.
I'm currently using a Netgear dual band N600 router, and I'm using 40Mhz bandwidth on the 2.4Ghz channel to reach upstairs with a decent speed (40~Mbps down, 30~ up at 50dB).
I can connect the the 5Ghz network however I get around 60-70dB and around 2Mbps down and up.
My speeds on 2.4Ghz are okay, however I'm paying for 100/40Mbps and getting less than half of that. The connection is also not very stable, when I'm playing a game my ping will constantly spike and sometimes disconnect for a few seconds.
Ethernet is not an option, and I assume nothing using a 5Ghz band will reach where I need it, unless new routers can really extend the rang on the 5Ghz band more then I'd expect. I just don't know if it's worth trying to upgrade the router considering I might not be able to get better speeds/reliability anyway?
I was thinking of buying an ASUS AC-68U.
I understand speed has increased dramatically for both 2.4 and 5Ghz bands, I guess I just need to know if range has been increased as well.
Any advice is very much appreciated!
Thank you in advance!
I'm trying to upgrade my wireless speeds that I get in the upstairs area of my house. The router is located downstairs through many double brick walls.
I'm currently using a Netgear dual band N600 router, and I'm using 40Mhz bandwidth on the 2.4Ghz channel to reach upstairs with a decent speed (40~Mbps down, 30~ up at 50dB).
I can connect the the 5Ghz network however I get around 60-70dB and around 2Mbps down and up.
My speeds on 2.4Ghz are okay, however I'm paying for 100/40Mbps and getting less than half of that. The connection is also not very stable, when I'm playing a game my ping will constantly spike and sometimes disconnect for a few seconds.
Ethernet is not an option, and I assume nothing using a 5Ghz band will reach where I need it, unless new routers can really extend the rang on the 5Ghz band more then I'd expect. I just don't know if it's worth trying to upgrade the router considering I might not be able to get better speeds/reliability anyway?
I was thinking of buying an ASUS AC-68U.
I understand speed has increased dramatically for both 2.4 and 5Ghz bands, I guess I just need to know if range has been increased as well.
Any advice is very much appreciated!
Thank you in advance!