ZyXEL AC1750 (NBG6716)

[mediatrek]

The ZyXEL AC1750 will be shipping next week. Any chance you will be taking a look at it? It will also support Qualcomm's Streamboost like the disappointing D-link DGL-5500 does. Before the FCC site went down due to the government shutdown, I believe I saw it had the QCA9558, QCA9880 & 256MB RAM.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833181305&Tpk=ZyXEL%20NBG6716

 

[thiggins]

Thanks for the tip. I'll look into it.

 

[nas82]

I purchased this router as soon as it came out, and it has been amazing. I have 7 devices that access it, and I stream netflix and use two seperate VoIP devices and haven't had any issues.

I was so impressed with it, My other family got one as well and they have around 10+ devices that connect to it. One of their devices is outside of their 2200square foot home in the garage which is around 200 feet from the house. To get to the garage is has to go through 4 walls and it gets around 2-3 bars with a ping of less than 30.

 

[stevech]

To get to the garage is has to go through 4 walls and it gets around 2-3 bars with a ping of less than 30.

Don't forget that WiFi is two-way. The signal FROM the client has to be comparable to the other direction, in order to have good speed and low error rates.
Some routers display the FROM CLIENT signal strength so you can confirm that the clients with lower power than the router are doing OK.

In the end, it's not so much the signal strengths each way, but the net yield, two-way throughput using something like speedtest.net on a good server, and taking an average at different times of the day.

 

[nas82]

I've ran speed test several times throughout the day, and I consistently get the same results every time.

They also indicated that speed has been better, they too watch netflix, and things are loading up faster on netflix and and streaming videos are much faster.

That includes watching netflix in the garage.