NickF1227
Occasional Visitor
Okay-- so this is my first adventure into building a decent home network. For the past several years I've gone through 4 Linksys routers (WRT54GS, WRT54GL, E3000, and most recently the EA4200). All of which have run DD-WRT since almost day one, and I have fallen in love with the firmware. However, all but the WRT54GL have failed on me after a couple of years.
The EA4200 still works, but recently the 5GHz band has stopped working on me. It still transmits the signal, but it does not connect to the internet. I may have have misconfigured something, perhaps one of you can help me with this? However, I have also been having massive ping spikes while gaming on the 2.4GHz band, in the middle of the night when no one else is around to cause interference. So I'm giving up on it.
So--- background aside--- I just purchased a Netgear R7000 AC1900. I dont have any AC clients yet, but will throw an Intel AC 7260 in my laptop one of these days. Nothing wrong with a little bit of future proofing. I plan on using it only as an access point with DDWRT. Its probably crazy overkill for that, but I'm done with having issues and I want good quality signal.
I plan on using an old Del E510 I have laying around with a dual port Intel Pro 1000 NIC as a router, probably running pfSense, and then using the Netgear as an access point.
For reference: There are 5 of us in the house, 3 smart phones, 3 iPads, & 4 laptops. Also I have a few friends over with laptops gaming from time to time. We have a Comcast 30/5 (I think) internet connection. We have a decent sized yard and not a whole lot of signal interference from neighbors. My laptop is usually hard wired to the ethernet and hooked up to an external monitor, everything else is wireless. I am planning on building a FreeNAS box in the near future.
So SNB gurus, does this sound like a decent setup? Any suggestions for this noob?
The EA4200 still works, but recently the 5GHz band has stopped working on me. It still transmits the signal, but it does not connect to the internet. I may have have misconfigured something, perhaps one of you can help me with this? However, I have also been having massive ping spikes while gaming on the 2.4GHz band, in the middle of the night when no one else is around to cause interference. So I'm giving up on it.
So--- background aside--- I just purchased a Netgear R7000 AC1900. I dont have any AC clients yet, but will throw an Intel AC 7260 in my laptop one of these days. Nothing wrong with a little bit of future proofing. I plan on using it only as an access point with DDWRT. Its probably crazy overkill for that, but I'm done with having issues and I want good quality signal.
I plan on using an old Del E510 I have laying around with a dual port Intel Pro 1000 NIC as a router, probably running pfSense, and then using the Netgear as an access point.
For reference: There are 5 of us in the house, 3 smart phones, 3 iPads, & 4 laptops. Also I have a few friends over with laptops gaming from time to time. We have a Comcast 30/5 (I think) internet connection. We have a decent sized yard and not a whole lot of signal interference from neighbors. My laptop is usually hard wired to the ethernet and hooked up to an external monitor, everything else is wireless. I am planning on building a FreeNAS box in the near future.
So SNB gurus, does this sound like a decent setup? Any suggestions for this noob?