Hi
I confess, like another user below, to being sort of bewildered by the options out there, and don't really understand the technical aspects of routers etc. I am in Los Angeles, with ATT DSL 3 mps and no idea if Uverse will ever make it here. Plan to switch to TIme Warner Cable 50 mbps down. Have a combo NEtgear router;modem with a Netgear WNA 3100 adapter on my pc and the speed shown on Network is usually around 104 during the day. Recently got 2 iphone 5c, 2 verizon android tablets, and wife has laptop. only two of us in house, neither games, wife says she can't really watch movies, connection too slow. Two story house, about 3800 sq ft trouble getting good connection upstairs, tho the wifi extender has helped. When I now upload to cloud, it pretty much chokes off other activity.
I would hope I will find the speed increase inpressive when I go from 3 to 50 (even if I am only getting half of either). It seems to me I want
1. reliability, i would rather sacrifice a bit of speed etc to avoid devices taht seem to drop a lot, tho that may be a uniform feature
2. Range. I don't really understand how the various routers vary in that respect, it seems they increase speed, or throughput as you go up the ladder in price, but not sure how that impacts range.
I had pretty much planned to get the Motorola SB 6141, and Netgear AC 1900 Nighthawk (or ASUSRT-AC68U), though I still don't really understand if I need AC 1900. And I am troubled by customer reviews - while the bulk are 5 stars, a surprising number for each are 1s since they say the device starts dropping the network.
Some other points of confusion
!. Mr Higgens in the 2015 buying guide suggests AC 1900, yet in earlier review of the two first ones, suggested it was more than most folks need, and the difference between 1900 and 1750 was irrelevant for most of us.
2. I still don't get what these impressive speeds do if my interenet connection is 50. I admit I don't know what I don't know, but I don't think I care about our devices speaking to each other very much.
Lastly, will the WNA 3100 adapter work, or do I need something else. Seems like the
TP-LINK TL-PA4010KIT AV500 Nano Powerline Adapter Starter Kit, up to 500Mbps is a big seller and inexpensive.
Thanks much for making it thru this longwinded question.
I confess, like another user below, to being sort of bewildered by the options out there, and don't really understand the technical aspects of routers etc. I am in Los Angeles, with ATT DSL 3 mps and no idea if Uverse will ever make it here. Plan to switch to TIme Warner Cable 50 mbps down. Have a combo NEtgear router;modem with a Netgear WNA 3100 adapter on my pc and the speed shown on Network is usually around 104 during the day. Recently got 2 iphone 5c, 2 verizon android tablets, and wife has laptop. only two of us in house, neither games, wife says she can't really watch movies, connection too slow. Two story house, about 3800 sq ft trouble getting good connection upstairs, tho the wifi extender has helped. When I now upload to cloud, it pretty much chokes off other activity.
I would hope I will find the speed increase inpressive when I go from 3 to 50 (even if I am only getting half of either). It seems to me I want
1. reliability, i would rather sacrifice a bit of speed etc to avoid devices taht seem to drop a lot, tho that may be a uniform feature
2. Range. I don't really understand how the various routers vary in that respect, it seems they increase speed, or throughput as you go up the ladder in price, but not sure how that impacts range.
I had pretty much planned to get the Motorola SB 6141, and Netgear AC 1900 Nighthawk (or ASUSRT-AC68U), though I still don't really understand if I need AC 1900. And I am troubled by customer reviews - while the bulk are 5 stars, a surprising number for each are 1s since they say the device starts dropping the network.
Some other points of confusion
!. Mr Higgens in the 2015 buying guide suggests AC 1900, yet in earlier review of the two first ones, suggested it was more than most folks need, and the difference between 1900 and 1750 was irrelevant for most of us.
2. I still don't get what these impressive speeds do if my interenet connection is 50. I admit I don't know what I don't know, but I don't think I care about our devices speaking to each other very much.
Lastly, will the WNA 3100 adapter work, or do I need something else. Seems like the
TP-LINK TL-PA4010KIT AV500 Nano Powerline Adapter Starter Kit, up to 500Mbps is a big seller and inexpensive.
Thanks much for making it thru this longwinded question.