Will A New AC Router Bring You Wi-Fi Joy?

[Marinemaster]

I just got ATT Fiber installed and they game me a Pace 5268 router. The 5 GHz has 4 antennas, very powerful as good as the old 2.4GHz Apple Airport Extreme 5th generation, as far as range I mean. So yes in my experience newer AC routers have better performance on the 5GHz band compared to older hardware.

 

[Klueless]

I'm thinking it might be kinda fun to dedicate the 2nd 5Ghz radio of one of these new tri-bands to the "dedicated" 5Ghz radio of one of those "Fastlane" range extenders to see what, if any, improvement one might gain over just using a range extender?

 

[james g]

tim- Can you consider adding hardwire thoroughput (upload/download) to your router tests? I primarily use hardwire and you are primarily testing wireless. thank you.

 

[Nullity]

tim- Can you consider adding hardwire thoroughput (upload/download) to your router tests? I primarily use hardwire and you are primarily testing wireless. thank you.

I thought he did.

Perhaps not simultaneous up/down, but most routers can hardly reach 1Gbit one way, subtract the other direction's throughput from whatever maximum Tim lists.

 

[thiggins]

tim- Can you consider adding hardwire thoroughput (upload/download) to your router tests? I primarily use hardwire and you are primarily testing wireless. thank you.

We have always had wired throughput in the Router Charts.
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/lanwan/lanwan-howto/31103-how-we-test-hardware-routers-revision-3
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/tools/charts/router/bar/75-lan-to-wan
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/tools/charts/router/bar/74-wan-to-lan
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/tools/charts/router/bar/76-total-simul

 

[crashnburn]

...so...finally...it will or not bring joy?!

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Mikrotik(for routing) + AC88U(for 5Ghz) + AC68U(for 2.4Ghz) + Cisco switch(for NAS link aggregation) + AC87U (second AP)

I had a mix of Asus RT-N16/ Tomato & Dlink DIR xxx / Stock & DD-WRT which I finally let go for a Mikrotik HapLite - Would be nice if you could contribute some thoughts here.

https://www.snbforums.com/threads/c...ome-soho-setup-for-wifi-ac-no-ubiquiti.60398/