Which one to use as AP?

[Fingers]

Hi,
Great forum..my head is close to exploding with all the info available on here

I live in a 3 storey town house with an Asus AC87U located on the ground floor and cannot be moved. I am wanting to improve wifi coverage to the upper parts of the building.

I recently won an RT-AC5300 in a competition so was looking to add this to my existing set up. Would I be better using the 5300 as the main router and the 87U as an AP, or the other way around, or does it not matter?

Sorry if the question is a little basic but networking is not my thing (yet!)

Regards

 

[System Error Message]

lucky you to get an AC5300 for free. Set the AC5300 as your main router and use the AC87U for extension. Best thing to do is to wire them together, if not give an AV2000 powerline a go.

The AC5300 is a much better architecture overall than the AC87U in terms of internal design as the ac87u has bottlenecks internally.

 

[Fingers]

Thanks,
yes I didn't realise how expensive it was until I googled . At the moment I only have a set of TP-LINK TL-PA8030P AV1200 powerlines to connect them as a direct cable is too much work to pass through walls ect. I will upgrade to AV2000 to get the best from everything.

 

[Samir]

Personally, I wouldn't worry about the upgrade from the av1200 to the av2000 just yet. Try the setup with your existing hardware first, and then if you feel the av2000 would make an impact, you can try them and you have a baseline to compare to.