Help choosing cable router

[Paul Ryan]

hi, i need help picking a new router, i currently use the superhub 2ac but want something that will improve the wireless range and speed throughout the house, here's a list of activities for the router

1. web browsing
2. online gaming
3. newsgroups and torrents
4. wireless printing
5. streaming (netflix, amazon, kodi, live football)

there will be anything upto 20 wireless devices and 3 wired devices connected at once

here are the devices i'm considering

1. NETGEAR R7500
2. ASUS RT-AC88U

oh and one last thing i must be able to turn off all the lights on it

 

[sfx2000]

You're not going to get much better than what you have at the moment - so focus, if possible, putting the Superhub 2AC in an ideal location to cover most of your devices...

If you're in a smallish flat, you've got more than enough already...

 

[Paul Ryan]

i live in a terraced house, all upstairs is fine but some rooms downstairs the signal strength does

 

[sfx2000]

might consider picking up an N600 class (or AC1200 class) AP to light up the rooms downstairs perhaps connected via ethernet

 

[Paul Ryan]

sh2ac is upstairs and can't be relocated downstairs so can't use ethernet downstairs as its too far, with the current setup i can get either range or speed but not both together which i thought i would with a dedicated router

 

[System Error Message]

The ac88U has 8 ports but i havent tested broadcom's ethernet if it has more than 1Gb/s link to the CPU. RMerlin says the ports are CPU connected.

 

[Paul Ryan]

what about the the tp-link Archer C2600

 

[System Error Message]

as long as it uses the 2nd gen MU-MIMO if it is one, otherwise it will do fine. What makes tp-link cheaper is that they use lower to midrange chipsets (i.e. 800mhz instead of 1.2Ghz broadcom) and that they only have basic features. So it really depends on what you need. ASUS has a lot of features in their firmware. As long as it is not quantenna it will be fine.

In terms of wifi only slight differences if they use the same chip so it goes down to antennas and design.

 

[Paul Ryan]

ok want about the netgear

 

[fiberboy]

Have a check at the data sheet about NETGEAR R7500 for reference.
http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/datasheet/en/R7500.pdf