Wifi Router
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- akiersky
Hi All,
I've been tasked with finding a new router for our office. Our budget is about $200, but would like to get the best deal we can. There are a lot of options! I have been able to narrow it down to 4:
ASUS RT-N66U Dual-Band Wireless-N900 Gigabit Router
http://www.amazon.com/RT-N66U-Du…
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/w…NETGEAR WNDR4500 N900 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router
http://www.amazon.com/Netgear-Wi…
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/w…Cisco Linksys WES610N Dual-Band N Entertainment Bridge with 4-Port Switch
http://www.amazon.com/Linksys-WE…
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/w…Apple Airport Extreme Gen 5
http://www.amazon.com/Airport-Ex…
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/w…Any thoughts/experience with any of these, or do you have better suggestions?
Thanks!
ak
- akiersky0
No one?
I think I have it narrowed down to the Asus and the Airport.
The Asus is a bit faster, and has better range, but the Airport can be extended with the Express stations.
Has anyone had any good/bad experiences with the Airport in a business environment?
- detritus0
Just as an FYI - all decent routers should be range-extendable with repeater stations/hubs etc.
We've had two basic Netgear routers covering our warehouse space with a bridged repeater router, acting as a dumb slave, at the other end of the building. It caters to about 20 people adequately enough.
imho, I'd only get an apple router if i ONLY had to cater for apple computers. Not that PCs are shit and don't work well - more that (in my opinion) Apple products work very well with their own kind, less so with other tech.
That's just, like, my opinion man.
- oh, balls, if only I'd read Dr Bombay's post first! :)detritus
- akiersky0
Our office is about 95% apple computers, but we currently use a NetGear router with reasonable reliability. Mostly looking to upgrade for a speed and range boost. We are a design firm so we rely on our network and internet to be working all the time. So speed and uptime is a big selling point.
Good to know about range repeating, Ill have to try again.
Thanks for the thoughts guys, Im leaning toward the Asus as of right now.
- detritus0
imho, I'd only ever get networking equipment from network-centric manufacturers...
The Netgears, Ciscos, Linksys', D-Links of the world.
We recently replaced a Netgear (after over 8 years of devoted service.. poor thing) and, although we ended up just going for another Netgear (replete with gaudy flashing blue fucking LEDs) I did seriously consider 'Billion' Brand, which had good reviews and a lot of bang for its buck.