So I'm quite excited, after many years of being imprisoned against my will by a giant telco on a capped 25 megabit plan I now have the option of a local company that provides uncapped gigabit fibre connections.
I have an older RT-N16 but I thought I'd get a fancy new router to go with my fancy new internet connection.
I compared the Linksys WRT3200 and the Asus RT-3100 and I went with the Linksys because it was a bit cheaper and I thought the 3200 was a updated version of the 3100 chipset.
But doing more research I see I was wrong, they are totally different. The 3100 is dual band whereas the 3200 is tri-band.
Now this is where I start to get confused, because it seems that the 3100 actually has better theoretical speeds than the 3200 but one has an extra band. It actually seems the 3100 has similar specs to the 5300 routers but missing the second 5GHz band.
So from what I understand unless you have many, many devices you're better off with a 3100 because it has better speeds per band than 3200?
I went back and bought the Asus too because they were on sale, so which is going back to Best Buy?
I have an older RT-N16 but I thought I'd get a fancy new router to go with my fancy new internet connection.
I compared the Linksys WRT3200 and the Asus RT-3100 and I went with the Linksys because it was a bit cheaper and I thought the 3200 was a updated version of the 3100 chipset.
But doing more research I see I was wrong, they are totally different. The 3100 is dual band whereas the 3200 is tri-band.
Now this is where I start to get confused, because it seems that the 3100 actually has better theoretical speeds than the 3200 but one has an extra band. It actually seems the 3100 has similar specs to the 5300 routers but missing the second 5GHz band.
So from what I understand unless you have many, many devices you're better off with a 3100 because it has better speeds per band than 3200?
I went back and bought the Asus too because they were on sale, so which is going back to Best Buy?
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