Hi guys! Bit of a lurker in these parts, but I thought I'd finally come and ask for help, because so long as you've briefly used the search tool, there are no stupid questions.
So, at present, my current set-up is a very bad ISP-provided VMDG480 with a Wireless signal that's about as useful as semaphore signals. One of the Gbit ports goes round to an E4200v1 upstairs round the back of the house. The signal quality on it could be a lot better than it actually is and flashing it onto DD-WRT only worsened the signal slightly, if anything.
So, I'm planning on kicking the ISP router over to "modem only mode", as that's said to resolve a lot of problems with the device, and then buy two of the same router and configure them to work in tandem if possible.
Within reason, money is not an issue for me. I'm prepared to spend up to £400 in total to sort this out - about $650 of your American Dollars. I've been looking at the ASUS AC68U or the Netgear R7000 as potential candidates.
I also keep seeing references to "Bridging" like-for-like router units in an attempt to increase Wireless performance, but as to how this should be executed, I have no idea. Now, I am a qualified Computer Scientist and work in the IT field full-time. However, I am far from a qualified Network Engineer and my usefulness goes as far as rebooting crashed HP ProSafe switches for clients.
So, if I were to get two devices (if I should), then how would I go about configuring these?
Additionally, would you recommend one device over the other? I understand that the AC68U is a good device, but SNB's review suggests that the R7000 might be a better device.
Cheers.
So, at present, my current set-up is a very bad ISP-provided VMDG480 with a Wireless signal that's about as useful as semaphore signals. One of the Gbit ports goes round to an E4200v1 upstairs round the back of the house. The signal quality on it could be a lot better than it actually is and flashing it onto DD-WRT only worsened the signal slightly, if anything.
So, I'm planning on kicking the ISP router over to "modem only mode", as that's said to resolve a lot of problems with the device, and then buy two of the same router and configure them to work in tandem if possible.
Within reason, money is not an issue for me. I'm prepared to spend up to £400 in total to sort this out - about $650 of your American Dollars. I've been looking at the ASUS AC68U or the Netgear R7000 as potential candidates.
I also keep seeing references to "Bridging" like-for-like router units in an attempt to increase Wireless performance, but as to how this should be executed, I have no idea. Now, I am a qualified Computer Scientist and work in the IT field full-time. However, I am far from a qualified Network Engineer and my usefulness goes as far as rebooting crashed HP ProSafe switches for clients.
So, if I were to get two devices (if I should), then how would I go about configuring these?
Additionally, would you recommend one device over the other? I understand that the AC68U is a good device, but SNB's review suggests that the R7000 might be a better device.
Cheers.