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I have a old cisco wireless g router (2007) in my living room being the piece of crap it is. I need one like today or tomorrow and was wondering what is the best deal for my money. I have 85 bucks to spend. There is 7 people in this household and we are currently taking turns using the wifi. Please help me out with suggestions, i might be able to squeeze 90 or 95$ thanks in advance.

and no its not the isp. We are supposed to be getting 65 mbps it better not be them...

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CPU: A8-5600K GPU: MSI RX 480 GAMING X 4GB MOBO: ASUS A55BM-PLUS 

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Asus RT-N66U

 

Best router in the $100 price point. Period.

 

Before I started using a pfsense router I had gotten it up to 6 months of uptime without a reset. Super stable, great wifi range and a shit ton of super awesome, high end features.

 

I know it's just outside of your budget, but it's worth the extra few bucks.

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I have a old cisco wireless g router (2007) in my living room being the piece of crap it is. I need one like today or tomorrow and was wondering what is the best deal for my money. I have 85 bucks to spend. [...]

Pretty much anything you can get off the shelf will do a better job than that. If your budget is $85 then you're pretty limited though, you should be able to find something around the N600 spec for that price. So anything from one of the bigger brands at around that price should do the trick.

 

But I'd strongly recommend aiming a bit higher. If you can find a way to spend something closer to $200 then you could get Ubiquiti EdgeRouter for less than $100 and then pair it with an access point with what you have left. Especially given that you have 7 people sharing this connection. The QoS on those EdgeRouters in particular is well above what you'd get out of an all-in-one. For that price what you'll get it something that'll perform better than some devices that cost twice as much.

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