What is my current router?
Currently I'm using a Asus rt-n66u running on the merlin firmware.
This one will probably move to the top floor and setup as a nap.
What is the situation?
I'm looking for a new router to get a better coverage in our new house. The house we've bought is a semidetached house and built in 1991 and is about 170m2 big and has 3 levels. Despite having a semidetached house, my phone finds 15 WiFi signals!
In our living room the WiFi of our neighbors across the street has a better signal strength. While our couch is only 4-5 meters away from the router, but with two walls in between.
In our bedroom on the first floor the 2,4ghz signal shows -75/80 dBm signal strength and is unstable. While the router again is only 4-5 meters away, but with a concrete ceiling between.
On the top floor the WiFi is as fast as a gprs connection.
The garden's depth is 18 meters and has a sort of lounge area in the back. During the summer we're sitting there a lot, listening to music(Spotify) and relaxing. Currently we have my Wi-Fi coverage there and Spotify is not so good for our 4g data bundle. It would be great to have some Wi-Fi coverage there as well.
What is my budget?
When I bought my current router it was top class and the most expensive one for 175 euro, but I wanted the best and bought it.
Now the top routers are close to 500 euro and that's a bit too much imho.
I'm looking for a router one class lower at about 300 euro
What have I looked for myself?
With that budget there is quite some choice.
2015 routers
D-link dir-890
Asus ac-rt3200
Netgear 48000
Linksys ea8500
2016
Asus rt-ac3100
Netgear r7800
Usually I'm always going for the latest models, but the netgear does not have any proper reviews. Just family and friends consumer's reviews telling it is awesome.
The Asus one seems to do ok, but is not available in the Netherlands yet.
I did find this review, which is stating the dir890 is still the best allround router. And the speeds of the 890 in their test are much better than their other router tests.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2499817,00.asp
However other reviews from 2015 on snb, tomshardware etc aren't showing these big differences between the 890 and other 2015 routers, so I doubt the review is very reliable.
So can someone please tell me more about the latest ones compared to the 2015 ones?
Currently I'm using a Asus rt-n66u running on the merlin firmware.
This one will probably move to the top floor and setup as a nap.
What is the situation?
I'm looking for a new router to get a better coverage in our new house. The house we've bought is a semidetached house and built in 1991 and is about 170m2 big and has 3 levels. Despite having a semidetached house, my phone finds 15 WiFi signals!
In our living room the WiFi of our neighbors across the street has a better signal strength. While our couch is only 4-5 meters away from the router, but with two walls in between.
In our bedroom on the first floor the 2,4ghz signal shows -75/80 dBm signal strength and is unstable. While the router again is only 4-5 meters away, but with a concrete ceiling between.
On the top floor the WiFi is as fast as a gprs connection.
The garden's depth is 18 meters and has a sort of lounge area in the back. During the summer we're sitting there a lot, listening to music(Spotify) and relaxing. Currently we have my Wi-Fi coverage there and Spotify is not so good for our 4g data bundle. It would be great to have some Wi-Fi coverage there as well.
What is my budget?
When I bought my current router it was top class and the most expensive one for 175 euro, but I wanted the best and bought it.
Now the top routers are close to 500 euro and that's a bit too much imho.
I'm looking for a router one class lower at about 300 euro
What have I looked for myself?
With that budget there is quite some choice.
2015 routers
D-link dir-890
Asus ac-rt3200
Netgear 48000
Linksys ea8500
2016
Asus rt-ac3100
Netgear r7800
Usually I'm always going for the latest models, but the netgear does not have any proper reviews. Just family and friends consumer's reviews telling it is awesome.
The Asus one seems to do ok, but is not available in the Netherlands yet.
I did find this review, which is stating the dir890 is still the best allround router. And the speeds of the 890 in their test are much better than their other router tests.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2499817,00.asp
However other reviews from 2015 on snb, tomshardware etc aren't showing these big differences between the 890 and other 2015 routers, so I doubt the review is very reliable.
So can someone please tell me more about the latest ones compared to the 2015 ones?