I have an ancient wrt54g that continues to chug along, but time to upgrade. I've added new devices over last couple years (ipdas, ipods) and certain spots in house have a weaker, but manageable, signal.
Since I tend to hang onto this kind of thing, I don't mind spending a little more money to address needs:
Routers I'm looking at
Questions
Since I tend to hang onto this kind of thing, I don't mind spending a little more money to address needs:
- router will remain in basement, but service 3 floors
- me, 2 kids and wife who love to stream content on mobile devices
- want to add a new apple tv on main floor (not holding breath, but waiting to see if a new version is released over next couple months)
- have an ethernet wired xbox 360 that does the brunt of streaming eg netflix
- the xbox uses unblock DNS services for US content, but want to drop this as I now have VPN via Private Internet Access.com
- use a VPN client within new router for all devices I specify (eg VPN for XBOX, but not PC as I want to turn this off and on when PC gaming)
Routers I'm looking at
- WRT1900AC
- Asus AC68U
- Asus AC87U
Questions
- custom firmware (eg openwrt, ddwrt, merlin, etc) - which is best in my case?
- VPN client is critical for me as I want to drop the cost incurred with unblockus. Which has the best support for a configurable VPN?
- OpenVPN seems to be the recommendation? Agreed?
- anything coming out before Jan '15 that I should wait for? (not looking to wait forever though)
- will new router enable me to go wireless on xbox 360?
- do any of the routers allow for specifying which devices use VPN?
- if I use the old wrt as a repeater, is the overall network's performance lowered?
- AC68U and AC87U differences? website is not very helpful
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