I live in a two-storey house that has an L-shaped floor plan on the ground floor. All the walls and ceilings are made of concrete. So it’s a challenge to get wi-fi signals spread throughout the house.
Luckily I had gigabit Ethernet cabling running from the ground floor to upstairs, so I was able to cover the house using three N300-class routers: one upstairs as the primary router and two downstairs in the two opposite corners of the L-shape (with the downstairs two running in AP mode). This gave me reasonable levels of 2.4Ghz wifi throughout the house.
However, the house was struck by lightning a little while back and all the routers were fried (as well as a modem and some other electronic equipment).
I’m looking to upgrade the routers/APs to AC class devices now.
I have 4 MU-MIMO capable devices currently so I was looking to use something in the AC2600 class.
Also, I’ve heard that the newer AC class routers have much stronger wifi signals than my older N300 routers would’ve had, so perhaps I might not need 3 devices to cover the whole area: maybe I could get away with 2 AC2600 routers to cover upstairs and downstairs?
Would you recommend 2x AC2600 (perhaps the TP-Link model that seems reasonably priced) routers, or maybe one AC2600 for upstairs (where the MU-MIMO devices mostly reside) and 2x AC1900 devices downstairs? (like 2 of those cheap Tenda AC1900 routers set up as access points)?
Luckily I had gigabit Ethernet cabling running from the ground floor to upstairs, so I was able to cover the house using three N300-class routers: one upstairs as the primary router and two downstairs in the two opposite corners of the L-shape (with the downstairs two running in AP mode). This gave me reasonable levels of 2.4Ghz wifi throughout the house.
However, the house was struck by lightning a little while back and all the routers were fried (as well as a modem and some other electronic equipment).
I’m looking to upgrade the routers/APs to AC class devices now.
I have 4 MU-MIMO capable devices currently so I was looking to use something in the AC2600 class.
Also, I’ve heard that the newer AC class routers have much stronger wifi signals than my older N300 routers would’ve had, so perhaps I might not need 3 devices to cover the whole area: maybe I could get away with 2 AC2600 routers to cover upstairs and downstairs?
Would you recommend 2x AC2600 (perhaps the TP-Link model that seems reasonably priced) routers, or maybe one AC2600 for upstairs (where the MU-MIMO devices mostly reside) and 2x AC1900 devices downstairs? (like 2 of those cheap Tenda AC1900 routers set up as access points)?