Good router or average router with good AP?

[Theo]

So yeah what the tittle says. All pc's are connected via wifi, and most devices are .ac compatible.

No i cannot run cables, which is better for my usage?

Products i have in mind for good router is the asus rt-ac87u or something at that price range ( 250e ish) or even the rt-ac3200

Or a good enough router that is connected to a ubiquiti ap ac pro

Danke

[semithotamatic]

I would get the router/AP combo and put the AP in the center most spot between all of the devices.

[Theo]

I would get the router/AP combo and put the AP in the center most spot between all of the devices.

Its already in a pretty good spot, so even if i get 2 separate devices they'd be pretty close

[Theo]

I very strongly recommend a Ubiquiti access point (depending on how big your house is) with a Ubiquiti Edgerouter X.

This one yeah?

https://www.ubnt.com/edgemax/edgerouter-x/

( just making sure)

[Theo]

Yep. I have one myself and an ap and it works great.

So the ethernet cable from my modem would go in POE IN?

Havent really dealt with networking stuff before so noob questions galore 

[Theo]

Right. Then you can plug the access point into the other point that has poe passthrough. (you enable this in the web ui, very simple to do)

Sweet thanks, gonna buy them pretty soon then. Should be a pretty good step up from the modem/router/switch/ap that my isp gave me

[braneopbru]

Like Jared said, the best performance will come from getting an edgerouter and a unifi AP. 

 

That being said, I used an ASUS RT-N66U for a long time at home at it worked very well for me. Wi-fi range is really good and the performance is plenty to keep up with any internet plan with up to 100 Mbps speeds.

 

I have 250Mbps down from my ISP and while I was using the RT-N66U as the router, I could get around 100-120 MBps on speedtest over wifi from a computer about 20 feet away in the same room. Once I upgraded to a pfsense router and put the Asus in Access Point mode, I was able to hit 220-230 Mbps from the same computer over wifi.

 

One cool thing about the Asus routers, they have torrent clients built in, so you can have the router download your torrents for you onto a USB hard drive while your computers are all off.

[Theo]

Like Jared said, the best performance will come from getting an edgerouter and a unifi AP. 

 

That being said, I used an ASUS RT-N66U for a long time at home at it worked very well for me. Wi-fi range is really good and the performance is plenty to keep up with any internet plan with up to 100 Mbps speeds.

 

I have 250Mbps down from my ISP and while I was using the RT-N66U as the router, I could get around 100-120 MBps on speedtest over wifi from a computer about 20 feet away in the same room. Once I upgraded to a pfsense router and put the Asus in Access Point mode, I was able to hit 220-230 Mbps from the same computer over wifi.

 

One cool thing about the Asus routers, they have torrent clients built in, so you can have the router download your torrents for you onto a USB hard drive while your computers are all off.

Thanks for suggestion, for some reason i really like ubiquiti stuff ( dno why)

That asus feature is pretty cool though