wireless router for wired

[james g]

im looking for a router for wired only. would any of you recommend your wireless router, even if i choose to turn off the wireless? my home network will be using superior essex cat6a.

 

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There are wired only routers, just look into the non consumer stuff and also with x86.

 

[L&LD]

im looking for a router for wired only. would any of you recommend your wireless router, even if i choose to turn off the wireless? my home network will be using superior essex cat6a.

Depends on what your budget is. A (more) general purpose device is always more useful for longer than a (more) single purpose device is.

Unless you have extreme demands (QoS, reporting, etc.) even an RT-N56U would serve you well instead of an wired-0nly router. Though I would still suggest the RT-AC56U for overall bang for the buck (even for just 'wired routing mode').

 

[james g]

There are wired only routers, just look into the non consumer stuff and also with x86.

sem- already looked into this option. The industry is concentrating on consumer wireless routers. non consumer units are rated quite low. apparently they have very poor integrated software and zero tech support. I want a well tested unit.

 

[james g]

Depends on what your budget is. A (more) general purpose device is always more useful for longer than a (more) single purpose device is.

Unless you have extreme demands (QoS, reporting, etc.) even an RT-N56U would serve you well instead of an wired-0nly router. Though I would still suggest the RT-AC56U for overall bang for the buck (even for just 'wired routing mode').

lld- thank you for the reply. You suggested the Asus RT-AC56u router. this is a 3x3 mimo router. In Toms hardware, http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2329270/ac66u-ac56u.html someone suggested the Asus RT-AC66u. Another person suggested adding "an inexpensive 802.11n single band router," like the netgear N600 to suppliment the AC router. Of course, my main objective is fast wired.

 

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sem- already looked into this option. The industry is concentrating on consumer wireless routers. non consumer units are rated quite low. apparently they have very poor integrated software and zero tech support. I want a well tested unit.

I dont think the ones sold for businesses and more are untested. Tech support really depends. For example mikrotik license level 6 comes with 1 month of support. pfsense is actually very easy to configure and use and you can recycle hardware to run it on. A lot of products that come from suppliers like ubiquiti, mikrotik and so on come with support from the suppliers. Support for non consumer devices are actually more than consumer devices and these devices are tested more vigorously than consumer hardware and put through all sorts of stress. Some of these devices are even cheaper than ASUS and have much better QoS.

The industry focuses on non consumer hardware, consumer hardware is actually ignored by the industry and used in homes and small businesses. ASUS routers comes in plastic cases, non consumer routers come in metal cases that are much stronger and have rackmounts. Many newer mikrotik routers all have touchscreens and the ability to access them via mac address so if you screwed up a setting you wont need to reset.

 

[james g]

A lot of products that come from suppliers like ubiquiti, mikrotik... Some of these devices cheaper than ASUS and have much better QoS..

ok. i read a number of ubiquiti wired router reviews on amazon. the ubiquiti router (amazon) reviews are almost all negative. users report very challenging setups with ubiquiti routers. i want a well tested router which is discussed on these forums, with a consumer friendly setup.

 

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ok. i read a number of ubiquiti wired router reviews on amazon. the ubiquiti router (amazon) reviews are almost all negative. users report very challenging setups with ubiquiti routers. i want a well tested router which is discussed on these forums, with a consumer friendly setup.

thats because such routers require skill to configure. I would treat the edgerouter as a linux server as the GUI doesnt help much in configuring it. netduma is a gaming orientated router that uses mikrotik hardware but with their own user friendly interface.

 

[james g]

thats because such routers require skill to configure. netduma is a gaming orientated router that uses mikrotik hardware...

" By far the weakest point of the Netduma hardware is the wifi. It only has 802.11 b/g/n support on the 2.4 GHz channel. Almost all commercially available N routers today include the 2.4 and 5 Ghz wifi channels." Thus, your 2 options are a bust. i need a consumer friendly router that does not require advanced networking skills.

 

[james g]

anybody using the apple airport extreme router, 6th version? it has 802.11ac . it seems to have good reviews.

 

[sfx2000]

anybody using the apple airport extreme router, 6th version? it has 802.11ac . it seems to have good reviews.

It's ok - not the most feature rich, but it's stable - wireless performance is pretty much same as any AC1900 class device - Apple dumbed down the Admin util with release 6, prior builds were decent...

Device is showing it's age these days... I have two, and they work great as AP's, and their IPv6 support is better than some of the other vendors (not perfect however but none in consumer space are...)

 

[Cloud200]

I would throw in just getting any ARM based router with a GUI you like
Some decent choices are (in order of personal preference):
Asus RT-AC56u
TP-Link Archer C8
Linksys WRT1200AC

 

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" By far the weakest point of the Netduma hardware is the wifi. It only has 802.11 b/g/n support on the 2.4 GHz channel. Almost all commercially available N routers today include the 2.4 and 5 Ghz wifi channels." Thus, your 2 options are a bust. i need a consumer friendly router that does not require advanced networking skills.

You do contradict yourself as you said you wanted a wired router. There are routers like the cisco rv (but not the cisco rv itself which i dont recommend) that have user friendliness and better quality. Even pfsense isnt difficult to configure with its GUI and x86 is a lot faster.