Router recommendations

[ilya2006]

Hello! 

I'm moving in with a couple friends and we're getting 300mbps internet service from Spectrum but I have absolutely no intention of taking their wifi router.

All three of us are gamers but I have a switch we'll be running through. However, all the other stuff like phones, tablets, and TVs will be on wifi. Other than gaming there will be steaming to twitch, streaming shows from things like Netflix and Amazon. There will be 4K streaming as well. So I'm looking for some recommendations on what people have had good experiences with or perhaps something that's know to function well at the max with these speeds. I don't even want to think about how many devices will be on the network, it's ridiculous. 

Thanks in advance!

[Lord Ebola]

It depends on your budget really. I love my Asus ac66u and always had good experience with Asus routers in general. Not very expensive and does the job pretty well. You got 802.11ac for bandwith heavy apps, dual band antennas to play around interference or range/penetration issues and Asus firmware is very good out of the box. Also all the Ethernet ports are gigabit and it handles high speed transfers pretty well in my experience. Keep in mind that it might not be the best suited if you have many clients requiring lots of bandwith (Say 4-6 people streaming video and gaming over Wifi at the same time), in that case you should look at more expensive routers that supports MU-MIMO, they usually have many antennas and look a bit peculiar like the asus rt-AC5300 or Netgear Nighthawk series. 

 

That being said, if the majority of large data transfer and routing intensive traffic is on the wired LAN, don't bother too much with very expensive routers(250$+), just make sure the ethernet ports are all 1gpbs (on the switch too!) and that you have 802.11ac dual band antennas and you will probably be fine.