Looking to upgrade my router

[Speedbird]

Hello.

 

Right now my router is pretty crappy - it's a Thomson TG784 (or smething like that) supporting only 802.11g wireless and 100Mbit ethernet. I'm looking to replace it with something more modern - needs to have 802.11n and Gigabit ethernet, 5GHz would be cool too. Budget is 60 euros.

[Prastupok]

Hello.

 

Right now my router is pretty crappy - it's a Thomson TG784 (or smething like that) supporting only 802.11g wireless and 100Mbit ethernet. I'm looking to replace it with something more modern - needs to have 802.11n and Gigabit ethernet, 5GHz would be cool too. Budget is 60 euros.

I have 2 routers in my house, one of the Nighthawk ones, and then a more meh looking one that still performs pretty good.

 

That is the Linksys EA6300, for the price, it's pretty darn good.

[Speedbird]

I have 2 routers in my house, one of the Nighthawk ones, and then a more meh looking one that still performs pretty good.

 

That is the Linksys EA6300, for the price, it's pretty darn good.

Found one at a local store, thanks. By the way, does it support Wireless AC? The description page on my store's site says it does, but in the spec sheet the WiFi speed is shown as 867 Mbps.

[AMICLG]

For something cheap the TP-Link Archer C5 is about 70 euros and has AC and gigabit LAN also if I remeber correctly it supports 3rd party firmwares like OpenWRT.

I have 2 routers in my house, one of the Nighthawk ones, and then a more meh looking one that still performs pretty good.

 

That is the Linksys EA6300, for the price, it's pretty darn good.

The EA series is horrible especially the EA 6300, I've had 4 of them and the firmware doesn't work, it just drops wireless when it want's to, and it's not just me having these problems too.

[Prastupok]

Found one at a local store, thanks. By the way, does it support Wireless AC? The description page on my store's site says it does, but in the spec sheet the WiFi speed is shown as 867 Mbps.

 

Yes it does. 300mbps on wireless-N and 867mbps on wireless-AC.

[Prastupok]

For something cheap the TP-Link Archer C5 is about 70 euros and has AC and gigabit LAN also if I remeber correctly it supports 3rd party firmwares like OpenWRT.

The EA series if horrible especially the EA 6300, I've had 4 of them and the firmware doesn't work, it just drops wireless when it want's to, and it's not just me having these problems too.

 

I haven't had a problem, and I'm on Comcast.

 

1) Make sure that AC and N are separated 

 

2) Change the MTU to 1492 to allow for packet overhead.

[Speedbird]

For something cheap the TP-Link Archer C5 is about 70 euros and has AC and gigabit LAN also if I remeber correctly it supports 3rd party firmwares like OpenWRT.

The EA series is horrible especially the EA 6300, I've had 4 of them and the firmware doesn't work, it just drops wireless when it want's to, and it's not just me having these problems too.

 

 

I haven't had a problem, and I'm on Comcast.

 

1) Make sure that AC and N are separated 

 

 

2) Change the MTU to 1492 to allow for packet overhead.

The C5 is 5 euros more expensive, so EA6300 it is.

[Prastupok]

The C5 is 5 euros more expensive, so EA6300 it is.

I do recommend doing what I suggested though.

[Speedbird]

I do recommend doing what I suggested though.

Ok, will do. Thanks.

[AMICLG]

I haven't had a problem, and I'm on Comcast.

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I no longer own it, I've got a Cloud Core Router with UniFi AC APs now. But when I did, it was nothing but a paper weight with N only on 2.4Ghz and AC only on 5.2Ghz the firmware would shit out the moment you start putting a lot of traffic through it, if there was only a few devices it was fine but more than 10 will kill it.

[Speedbird]

I no longer own it, I've got a Cloud Core Router with UniFi AC APs now. But when I did, it was nothing but a paper weight with N only on 2.4Ghz and AC only on 5.2Ghz the firmware would shit out the moment you start putting a lot of traffic through it, if there was only a few devices it was fine but more than 10 will kill it.

I'm not going to have more than 8 devices anyway.

[AMICLG]

I'm not going to have more than 8 devices anyway.

It's fine with 8 and with probably only a had full of them actually doing anything it's fine, also from my experience the original firmware from Cisco was better than the firmware Belkin release after they bought Linksys out which limited the AC to 867 Mbps.

[Prastupok]

As above that is true. The old firmware is more stable but the new isn't bad either.