The Silent Riot

Thanks Dlog!

Ok, yes, sorry the correct word is access point (can you tell that networking is not my thing?) but the term is so misused already that it's basically become the norm. The access point is in the living room of my apartment, situated in the center of all living spaces. The furthest point is about 32ft away. On the second story of my home, passing through two walls, including a water-heater, washer/dryer, and a staircase.

Ah, ok. So, our ISP provided a modem, and the router needs to connect to that. It's cable (Charter Spectrum).

I'm sorry, I must have misunderstood. I need my router solely for WiFi capabilities. As I listed above, everything in my house uses WiFi, no physical wired connections.

It should mostly function as router and modem. I'm looking, but they all seem quite expensive and the cheap ones are pre-owned. I don't mean to be snobbish to pre-owned products, but I would probably always treat it with suspicion and kick myself at the first problem to arise. Thanks for the suggestion! Yeah, I like the way the TP-Link looks a lot (I would want to get one of those bamboo shells if I could find anywhere that still sells them). Though, I recently read that the Asus version "range can be up to 15% wider and allow for a more comprehensive coverage" because of it's metallic antennas (http://gazettereview.com/2016/10/tp-link-onhub-vs-asus-onhub-router-comparison-features/). Though, I doubt range would be a problem either way, given that I live in a small apartment. Though, right now they're both the same price anyway.

Hi everyone, So, I'm trying to decide between two routers right now, I currently have a very old school N600 WNDR3400v2 (and the 5g just bricked after a power outage). So, no matter what I get, it will be a huge upgrade. I'm considering between the EA8300 Linksys Max-Stream AC2200 MU-MIMO Tri-band Wireless Router or the Google OnHub. Before you go on telling me about some third alternative that I should consider, know this: My budget is hard set at $200.00 (USD) max, we've agreed we're not going above that. We live in an 1,800 sq ft, 2 story apartment Everything (and I mean everything) is on WiFi. The access point for internet is in the living-room in an awkward area, so we've never bothered with cables and we don't plan to (so physical ports don't matter). We're constant internet users. My girlfriend and I game on PC (though not a lot of highly competitive online gaming), watch Netflix (on two TV's in different rooms using Chromecasts), constantly use wifi on our phones (Google Fi on Google phones), she often video conferences for her Masters program, I occasionally need to run statistical programming to scrape data from the internet for my PhD program, and we invite friends over from time to time who will also use the internet freely and do the same as us. I won't be setting up a guest network, I won't be setting up parental controls, and I hardly play with internet settings to be honest. Almost everything in my apartment can use 5g, except one of the two Chromecasts. My computer uses the Asus - PCE-AC68 PCI-Express x1 802.11a/b/g/n/ac Wi-Fi Adapter (it's pretty amazing). Some of the things I like about each of these devices. EA8300: Tri-Band seems like a good idea given how many 5g devices we use. I'm interested in MU-MIMO tech Linksys is known for their reliability The Smart Wifi app seems cool Is built to work seamlessly with extenders It's $179 right now (sale) https://on.google.com/hub/features/ Google OnHub: It has 16 antennas, which seems like a good idea It's gone through a ton of upgrades recently and will continue to do so in the future The range on the device is said to be amazing I'm a big fan of Google products (as I'm sure you can already tell) and the app interface seems cool Is built to work seamlessly with mesh devices It's only $99 right now (sale) https://www.linksys.com/us/p/P-EA8300/ The problem is, there are very few professional reviews for the EA8300 and people seem to either love it or hate it, but the vast vast majority of user reviews say it's amazing. And there are a ton of hot and cold reviews for the OnHub, but most of them are old and complain about problems that either no longer exist after updates or don't concern my needs (like it's single port). I'm open to third alternatives, but only so long as they sound compatible with my interests and lifestyle. I am most concerned about throughput at far distances through many walls and the ability to use multiple devices at once. Thank you all in advance for your time and consideration!

Hey guys, I'm building my first PC ever thanks to inspiration from Linus tech tips. Here's my part list. Plus I think I'm going to get an EK Predator 360 kit. I digress. PCPartPicker doesn't list any 6700K's for sale anywhere. I was looking around for places on google and stumbled upon Big Box Live. Have any of you bought from them before? Is this a scam site? I really don't want my first build to go bad because I trusted the wrong sites. Thanks everyone, -The Silent Riot

I emailed them about this as well. The upgrade cost to a G-Sync model is $250 for those of us that bought the pro. I will keep you guys updated on the process, I believe that they actually have to give you a whole new laptop, because the cost of swapping out screens and motherboard parts is not worth it to them for that price.