Wireless router for home - which to buy?

[Eagle]

Hey yall, got a friend that needs a new wireless router @ home. What's the best out there lately? I bought a Netgear recently that has been puking out a bit on me, seizing up and whatnot rather randomly under load.

So while I would have said Netgear in the past, I'm not sure I'd suggest one today.

What do you guys suggest?

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[Mook]

My Asus nt66 has been the shit. Rock solid.

 

[Mook]

And I get strong wifi signal on all 3 levels.

 

[Spivitz]

I've been running linksys with netgear boosters

 

[willizm]

My Asus nt66 has been the shit. Rock solid.

Thats the one I got.

 

[willsmysticcobra]

I still need to do this... how much shit does comcast put you through if you buy your own modem and want to return theirs and stop being charged the rental fee?

 

[rocco]

My Asus nt66 has been the shit. Rock solid.

I've had mine for over a year now and not a single problem. I have it upstairs in the spare bedroom and get a great signal all the way down in the basement.

 

[importcrew]

Never had a problem with this.

D-Link AC3200

 

[Turtle]

I have a netgear blackhawk or nighthawk. Thing is great compared to my old links 54wrt thing.

Signal coverage is a ton better and speed is nuts.

 

[FESTER665]

Been using this one for over a year now and the thing works flawlessly. Havent had to reboot it or even touch the thing since I got it.

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Netgear-W...-Band-Gigabit-Router-Premium-Edition/22036755

 

[FESTER665]

I still need to do this... how much shit does comcast put you through if you buy your own modem and want to return theirs and stop being charged the rental fee?

It was a piece of cake for me. Just got a DOCSIS 3.0 Surfboard, called them up and they took the numbers from it and put it all in....

Now I have one of their modems again to go to the "triple play" to save money as stupid as it sounds.

 

[willsmysticcobra]

But do they give you crap for returning their giant black rental modem if you buy your own from Amazon

 

[FESTER665]

But do they give you crap for returning their giant black rental modem if you buy your own from Amazon

They didn't to me. As I said, I simply called them and gave them the numbers on the modem, they added it and it went smooth as possible...

They may try to give you a different package or something like they usually do, but I always look at those as ways to just get the bill lower...

I went with a Motorola 6120 at the time...

 

[wombat]

For a house your size and your usage, I would recommend either the Netgear Nighthawk X6, or the D-Link DIR-890.

If you still want to save some coin and get just as good performance, get the Asus AC68U. Top two are tri-band, Asus is dual-band

 

[Eagle]

I have a netgear blackhawk or nighthawk. Thing is great compared to my old links 54wrt thing.

Signal coverage is a ton better and speed is nuts.

For a house your size and your usage, I would recommend either the Netgear Nighthawk X6, or the D-Link DIR-890.

If you still want to save some coin and get just as good performance, get the Asus AC68U. Top two are tri-band, Asus is dual-band

I have this nighthawk and its what's giving me reboot issues. It throws some kind of error light and logs nothing, but stops passing traffic. One light does turn amber, so at least you know that its freaked out and needs a restart... but it always seems to happen right at that perfect moment when you need internet... like as you're playing the most intense game online, it locks up.

So frustrating.

 

[Turtle]

I have this nighthawk and its what's giving me reboot issues. It throws some kind of error light and logs nothing, but stops passing traffic. One light does turn amber, so at least you know that its freaked out and needs a restart... but it always seems to happen right at that perfect moment when you need internet... like as you're playing the most intense game online, it locks up.

So frustrating.

I haven't had any issues. I got a refurbished one too. Got it updated firmware and ran with it.

When I bought I heard of some firmware issues and I was ready to go with tomato whatever ddwrt type of custom stuff they had out but no issues on stock firmware. Covers the whole house,good speeds, wireless prints. I had to reboot maybe twice but that cause of mini blackout in the area.

 

[Eagle]

Yeah, I'm running current NG firmware and have issues at least 1x a week. Maybe I should look into custom firmware? Can you point me in the right direction, [MENTION=3535]Turtle[/MENTION]?

 

[BeerOrGasoline]

I rock this RT-AC68U and it's been flawless.


As far as the buy your own modem thing? I bought a DOCSIS 3.0 6141 Surfboard from amazon and spent the next three months of comcast telling me I stole the modem from them because the MAC address from the device was listed as property of comcast. Holy fuck. What a headache.

 

[Chester Copperpot]

Drop the coin and get the Linksys WRT1900AC. We bought our junk around the same time and since setting that router up over a year ago, I haven't touched it once other than to mess with media prioritization/bandwidth restrictions. It has been rock solid and easily worth the $250, hands down.

 

[Bruce Jibboo]

is combining the router and wifi mandatory? this can be had reasonably on ebay and throw up an ASA or fortigate for fw?

https://www.ubnt.com/unifi/unifi-ap-ac/

 

[BeerOrGasoline]

the Asus and the Linksys are the most compared from what I've seen. Asus having the sex appeal and cheaper price tag.


In-depth, hands-on review of Linksys WRT1900AC Wi-Fi router

 

[Chester Copperpot]

My 1900AC is in the middle room, front half, top floor of the house. I get WiFi signal (terrible but still works slowly) at my shed in the back yard 150 ft away.

Best router I've ever bought over 13 years. The OG WRT54G is second best.

 

[BeerOrGasoline]

Yeah but it's fugly.

 

[Yaj Yak]

who cares what it looks like.

 

[Chester Copperpot]

That review you posted shows that it doesn't matter what it looks like. The WRT FLIES compared to the Asus JUNK.