Frosty81
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I am building a new network for my parents. The home environment is a 3 story condo set up. I'm figuring 1 router per floor. I'm looking for high speed wifi data transfer ability. They will have a media server in the basement with media centers at two TV's on the first floor. In the loft will be a media back up pc. They rip all of their blurays (legally back up purchased copies) in the loft and would like to be able to send them wireless to the media server in the basement. These are full copies so the file size ranges from 15-35GB. Being able to get those across the network quickly would be nice. What speeds would be realistically possible in this scenario? They also require some high bandwidth for when they watch movies on more than one media center at a time as the movies bit rates go as high as 45 Mb\s. The current set up with some buffalo WZR HP G450H routers just barely handles the movie streaming and allows no over head for normal network traffic.
I tried a couple of Asus AC87U routers but could never get the 5GHz channels to connect in media bridge mode and Asus tech support was nothing less than atrocious so I returned them. The plan is to have a router at the media server, one media center and the media backup station, all hard wired to each router for best throughput. We will use one of the existing Buffalo routers for the second media center on the first floor.
Did I have a bad batch of ac87u's? Is it just that the current firmware has them messed up and in the nearish future those might be a good solution? Am I crazy thinking any residential levelrouter setup will do what I would like to do? Should I be setting up all of these routers as AP's aside from the internet in router? Would I be better off with the central router being a router and the others all being in a media bridge setup where compatible? I would like to think the new AC wifi should be able to handily beat the transfer speeds of my Buffalo N routers.
A few options I am reading up on are the Netgear r8000 and R7000, Linksys 1900ac and the Asus RT-AC68R. I would like to keep the router choices under $300 and if they are even cheaper thats all the better.
Any and all advice is welcome. If something isn't quite clear in my long rambling let me know and I'll try to clean it up a bit. Thanks in advance.
I tried a couple of Asus AC87U routers but could never get the 5GHz channels to connect in media bridge mode and Asus tech support was nothing less than atrocious so I returned them. The plan is to have a router at the media server, one media center and the media backup station, all hard wired to each router for best throughput. We will use one of the existing Buffalo routers for the second media center on the first floor.
Did I have a bad batch of ac87u's? Is it just that the current firmware has them messed up and in the nearish future those might be a good solution? Am I crazy thinking any residential levelrouter setup will do what I would like to do? Should I be setting up all of these routers as AP's aside from the internet in router? Would I be better off with the central router being a router and the others all being in a media bridge setup where compatible? I would like to think the new AC wifi should be able to handily beat the transfer speeds of my Buffalo N routers.
A few options I am reading up on are the Netgear r8000 and R7000, Linksys 1900ac and the Asus RT-AC68R. I would like to keep the router choices under $300 and if they are even cheaper thats all the better.
Any and all advice is welcome. If something isn't quite clear in my long rambling let me know and I'll try to clean it up a bit. Thanks in advance.