Any Suggested Wireless Routers?

kenghtt

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Hey guys,
I've used the n150 and the n300 before and both are decent...until I had 4 roomates. We lag when we all use wifi to play game, and some of us have to use the ethernet to hook directly.

My internet is currently through Charter and it goes up to 30mb/sec which is actually really good for me.

I can probably get 3 people to play league of legends (or any popular games) on the wifi and not lag, but anymore would def cause lag.

So should I be getting a new wifi router (n400, n600 or better?) or should I be getting faster internet? (50 mb/sec)

Thankyou
 
Your problem is not likely speed since games do not take a lot, it is interference. Even worse games need to send data at a slow but steady rate. you get multiple user trying to do this and they will eventually stomp all over each other. Wireless does not share very well. Its not like you divide the speed by the number of users. All the clients assume they can have it all and pretty much use it all when ever they want.

This is why the recommended users/AP or router depends on the try of traffic. Most devices can handle 10 users with common traffic but you add games or video streaming and that number quickly drops as you have found out.

You have to be careful with the numbers the router manufactures are being intentionally deceptive. They are many times adding the speeds of the 2.4g and 5g radios. No end device user pc can actually use both radios at the same time. Now for your issue you could put some users on 2.4 and other on 5 and that would reduce the number of people competing for wireless signals. If this is still not enough you could put in a second router/AP and use more radio channels to further split your users but you will likely run out of radio channels if you do not put it mostly in the 5g bands.

Increasing the speed of the router or the internet will likely make no difference which is why cabled users are not impacted. The only true solution to this is to stay on ethernet cabled connections. Even when you think you have plenty of radio channels you neighbor will decide to use the same channels and you will get interference but this time you can do nothing to change it.
 

kenghtt

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Thankyou bill001g for your input, so you're saying that a solution I can try is putting some people on the 2.4 and and others on the 5g radios. I have read about that, but do not fully understand and have no clue how to do it. If I tried that method, every time when my roomates connect back to the internet, would they automatically go back to the one that i select for them?
 
You use different SSID to select. Most routers by default generate different names. It is important to make sure the router has the work simultaneous in the description of the bands. Most can run both the 2.4 and 5 at the same time but a tiny handful of cheap routers only have a single radio.
 

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So assuming I there are 4 people gaming, the best is to split 2 of them to 2.4 and the other 2 to 5?