Best router geared towards gaming?

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So in doing tons of research in finding the "best" router, I stumbled upon a few in particular. I'm using it mainly for gaming, but total there are 3 laptops, 4 cell phones, and 1 ps4. Now they are never all on at the same time but my current wifi router is starting to drop signal fairly frequently. Constant restarts, even devices to see if it's the device or not. PS4 scanned it at 190kbps at one point. It's an old Netgear R6300.

I'm not looking for the latest and greatest.. even though the Asus RT-AC5300 is oh-so tempting, I'd like something that isn't a ridiculous price. If it helps or matters, the house is a 1200sq ft 2 floor home.

Routers I've considered:
Asus RT-AC5300 :)
TP-Link Archer C7 (heard bad reviews on it though with the v2)
Asus RT-AC68U

Well pretty much anywhere under $200.
My house isn't huge, nor does anything hog bandwidth like crazy at all times.

What do you guys use?
 
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In general it sounds like you need a new router no matter what, as for which one is best...

It depends, are you using Wifi or wired for your gaming purposes?

If its wired, and you don't need to deal with any advanced routeing configurations, then any of the ones you listed will be fine for what you're doing.

If its wireless you're going to want to get the router that matches up with your Wireless devices. Since you only listed laptops and the PS4 I'm assuming you're playing on one of those. What wireless types are the laptops? The PS4 is only a Wireless N device so any AC router like the TP-Link or RT-AC5300 aren't going to help things with it in terms of bandwidth. If the PS4 is your primary gaming platform, the best thing you can do is do a wired connection in to the router and not deal with the flakeyness of the router. .

However, if you have a lot of bandwidth sucking devices on your network, then advanced options of something like the Asus RT-AC5300 will help since you can separate devices between the 5Ghz networks, use beamforming, yada yada.
 
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bandwidth wise? probably no. I only use the ps4 occasionally but mainly game on my laptop (soon to build a desktop)

Considering the price/reviews I'm considering the Archer C7. I preordered the Linksys wrt1900ac and it was horrid. Possibly a bad one but it's range was worse than my stuttering netgear
 
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We'll I purchased an Asus ac3100 from bestbuy (had a large discount) and couldn't be any happier. Very good coverage ps4 now reads 96% signal strength. Speed test tested it at 87.27mbps.

Laptop only has an N card. It's just an HP so it's nothing crazy. The next build will have the Asus pce ac68 adapter so it should clear everything up even more
 
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