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trexxer
By trexxer
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I was hoping someone could recommend me a wifi router. I need one that's capable of creating a guest network where I can set bandwidth and access limits.

Ex. giving the guest network a total bandwidth limit of 2-3 MB/s and everyone on that network shares it. Also blocking the ability to torrent. I'll also need QOS to prioritize bandwidth on the networks. If it can do QOS automatically that would be great so I don't have to figure it out but it's not absolutely required. I don't need a ton of bells and whistles (I don't think I need dual-band) so I would like it to be affordable. Of course good wifi reception and reliability is a must. Also I heard Google Fiber is coming to my city (San Diego) so having a router that could take advantage of its speeds in the future would be nice but I'm sure a N900 router or whatever the top wireless speed is now would probably contradict the affordability option. So...as affordable as possible.

 

I have used and flashed dd-wrt, tomato, openwrt, gargoyle, firmware before so I have a fair bit of experience modding routers although I haven't done it in a long time. Last time I used dd-wrt the QOS feature was not functioning and also wasn't very intuitive (on tomato too) but I didn't need QOS back then so I didn't spend a lot time looking into it. I would prefer using the router's own software as I'd rather have convenience and ease of use but I'm not totally against using dd-wrt or tomato if their firmware has become more user-friendly. I definitely need the ability to create and configure guest networks though so if dd-wrt/tomato doesn't have that option then I don't want to use it.

 

Any recommendations?

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Anything from ASUS.

 

 

Or, you can get a cheap N750 from TP-Link, and flash it with OpeWRT or DD-WRT

 

 

Yeah, ASUS would be your best bet. Their products are expensive, but totally worth it.

 

So all Asus routers have guest network and QOS capabilities? 

 

 

I'm a certified MikroTik engineer. Ever considering MikroTik routers? They are packed with a lot of features and quite affordable, anything you want it will be possible, but you need some learning curve to configure this router.

 

I have never heard of MikroTik but they seem more expensive than other routers. Probably has more features than I really need. I'll look further into it thank you for the suggestion.

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