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    WIFI ROUTER SLOWING DOWN?

    Also, you shouldn't exclude the possibility of simply bad broadband connection. This can be tested by using a PC with a wired connection. It can happen sometimes. I had ATT's Uverse for years since 2012, and I always had problems. Intermittent and significant packet loss, slow and unreliable...
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    2019 Google Nest Router is impressive

    I am looking forward to a review of the 2019 Google Nest Wifi router (and the mesh system) on this site. Why did this product catch my eye? A few days ago my brother connected gigabit Google Fiber to his home. It came with one of those new tiny 2019 Google Nest Wifi Routers. So when I visited...
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    For any one who upgraded to Windows 10, READ THIS!!!!

    It seems that now we have to seriously rethink the home WLAN security strategy, unless you want all your contacts, and all contacts of a friend or relative who visited your home to have access to your WLAN, to have access to your LAN. Once Windows 10 becomes common, no longer you can trust a...
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    ASUS RT-AC56R worth it over the RT-N66U?

    Pick AC over non-AC router any day of week. They're just better and worth the price premium.
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    AC Routers a veiew.

    The gains exist but they are are marginal right now IMHO. To take advantage of the MU-MIMO downlink performance, you need to have the WAN connection that's actually faster than say a single consumer level wireless-ac device. One issue now is that, at least in North America, even 100Mbps...
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    Building LAN network with AP's without cabling

    Do you really gain anything by using dual radios in WDS mesh network setup? Let's say you have only two access points, and you dedicate the 2.4GHz radios to the task of WDS link, while the 5GHz talks to the clients. In an AC1900 router, the 2.4GHz link rate is 600Mbps, and the 5GHz link rate is...
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    New Router AC1200/AC1750/AC1900

    I have maybe 15 clients, not all active at the same time obviously. After having observed massive random instability problems with TP-Link WDR3600, which by now should have mature factory and 3rd party firmware, I have blamed the instability on overheating, and from the looks of the internals...
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    Noob looking for AC Router :(

    Take a look at the pictures of the internals on the SNB reviews. Get the one with a respectable heatsink.
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    AC Routers a veiew.

    Only relatively few high end systems, such as discrete Wi-Fi adapters, premium laptops, such as MacBook Pro, or wireless bridges have three stream implementations of 802.11ac This means that for a small home or office, an AC1200 router could be just fine. However, AC1750 class routers are often...
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    Article discussion: NETGEAR PL1200 Powerline 1200

    I am seeing some weird stability issues with my pair of PLP1200s. The network works flawlessly for a week or two, then my connection to the internet disappears for like five minutes. I can't ping my Uverse router. If this was my router problem, which is not uncommon, then I would have seen in...
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    Article Discussion: How Many SSIDs Is Too Many?

    http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/basics/wireless-basics/32751-snb-answer-guy-how-many-ssids-is-too-many I have several reasons for using separate SSIDs for 2.4 and 5GHz WLANs. I don't know how valid they are. My biggest fear is that the client will not always choose the right BSSID for the best...
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    Archer C7 vs C8

    Just setup my C8. No issues whatsoever. I use it as an access point (so NAT, DHCP, routing are turned off, assigned a "fake" 10.0.2.0/255.255.255.0 IP address to the WAN port) connecting to the AT&T Uverse router with a powerline. I might connect a hard drive to its USB2 port in future (I don't...
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    Does An AC Router Improve N Device Performance?

    Replaced a TP-Link WDR-3600 with a TP-Link Archer C8 (AC1750), and the improvement was huge, even in 2.4GHz band. Moreover, in locations where 5GHz connectivity was either unusable or very marginal, the 5GHz data transfer rates are somewhere in the neighborhood of a 100mbps wired lan. Very good...
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    What is the better router - TP-Link Archer C9 or Asus RT-AC3200?

    Having multiple clients does not necessarily mean that you need a MU-MIMO or a tri-band router, unless they all are involved in simultaneous data transfers at once. And if the communications are through a slower internet pipe, then it will be your bottleneck regardless of how capable is the...
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    TP-LINK Archer C7 AC1750; Good for my needs?

    It seems like the only improvement C9 has over C8 is that it is AC1900 instead of AC1750, which is a pretty minor improvement, and my understanding is that the marketing can slap a higher number on C9 because it has support for TurboQAM modulation, which brings link speeds up to 200Mbps per...
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    TP-LINK Archer C7 AC1750; Good for my needs?

    Probably has to do with the HT40 (40/20MHz) channel operation in the 2.4GHz band. In order to avoid potential problems, I'd try restricting the router to using a 20MHz wide channel
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    Archer C7 vs C8

    By the way, if you look at the pictures of C7 and C8 internals on smallnetbuilder, one apparent thing is that C8 has a massive heatsink, but C7 does not. I have run into various instability problems with similar looking Tp-Link WDR-3600 (no heatsink), and in order to discount the possibility...
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    TP-LINK Archer C7 AC1750; Good for my needs?

    One problem with online review sites like smallnetbuilder or wirecutter is that those sites only do a short benchmark, but do not do a longer term test. Case in point, is wirecutter's recommendation of TP-Link WDR-3600 as the "best cheap router". I had this router for half year, and observed...
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    Archer C7 vs C8

    Archer C7 has a solid third party firmware support, while the support for the C8 is in infancy. The dd-wrt project already has beta builds for Archer C9, which uses similar hardware, but C8 support is listed as "work in progress". I assume its down to whether the developers have access to the...
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    Article discussion: NETGEAR PL1200 Powerline 1200

    http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/lanwan/lanwan-reviews/32717-netgear-pl1200-powerline-1200-reviewed I thought it might be nice to have a thread dedicated to this line of products. I myself just received a pair of Netgear PLP1200 Powerline adapters, which I believe are the same thing as PL1200 but...
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