Decent, Cheap(ish) Router

[Guest]

Since my ISPs provided one supports either 2.5Ghz or 5Ghz and not both at the same time does anyone know of a decent router that can run both 2.5 and 5Ghz simultaneously? Further to this does anyone know of a router that is also capable of running "guest networks" I need a way of connecting old PCs in need of a cleanup (with potentially a few viruses) to my network so I can sort them out but not have them effect any of my network storage devices. Oh, router will need to work in the UK too, I know we have some funny rules about wifi over here.

 

On the subject of networking devices incidentally, I was going to buy another Western Digital MyBookLive to mirror and backup my current one but they seam to have been replaced by these My Cloud drives, anyone know if they are as good as the predecessor? The new drive will be my main storage device while my WD MyBook will be demoted to backup duties, so am open to any suggestions on better NAS Drives that have the media and file sharing abilities of the MyBookLive.

[CoolBeans]

Asus N66U

[AMICLG]

Good router for the price. http://www.amazon.co.uk/NetGear-R6200-100UKS-AC1200-Wireless-Router/dp/B008QBDVW4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1405474359&sr=8-1&keywords=netgear+r6200

[dragoon20005]

not exactly cheap

 

but here Asus RT N66U

 

support for guest network

 

but if you worry about virus infection just unplug the NAs from the network physically

 

http://www.asus.com/sg/Networking/RTN66U/specifications/

[Guest]

Thanks, the Netgear does not look too bad for its price and neither does the ASUS, looking at them on my local stores I came across the Buffalo AirStation 1750 AC Router which was actually a bit cheaper and does not look that bad, would this do the trick?

 

http://www.buffalotech.com/products/wireless/dual-band-wireless-routers/airstation-ac1750-gigabit-simultaneous-dual-band-wireless-router

[dragoon20005]

Thanks, the Netgear does not look too bad for its price and neither does the ASUS, looking at them on my local stores I came across the Buffalo AirStation 1750 AC Router which was actually a bit cheaper and does not look that bad, would this do the trick?

 

http://www.buffalotech.com/products/wireless/dual-band-wireless-routers/airstation-ac1750-gigabit-simultaneous-dual-band-wireless-router

yup that is a good router and it got AC WiFi

[AMICLG]

Thanks, the Netgear does not look too bad for its price and neither does the ASUS, looking at them on my local stores I came across the Buffalo AirStation 1750 AC Router which was actually a bit cheaper and does not look that bad, would this do the trick?

 

http://www.buffalotech.com/products/wireless/dual-band-wireless-routers/airstation-ac1750-gigabit-simultaneous-dual-band-wireless-router

Yup, also Buffalo routers actually use firmware based on I believe OpenWRT but it might be DD-WRT which means it supports 3rd party firmware.