Choose Router Between ASUS and LINKSYS

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Hi, every network experts,

I am new in networking area and wondering what router OR how to choose a router to fit my needs.

After asking around my friends, they asked me to choose a router from ASUS and LINKSYS. I prefer LINKSYS personally. Please don't ask me why. :na:

Therefore, I posted this question in Tomshardware forum.

Basically, This is Fibre Broadband which is using 5GBPS connection speed.

In order to run in 5GPBS connection speed, which router should I go for?

I already have chosen two routers from ASUS and LINKSYS.
Which one should I buy? Or anyone have better suggestion?


    LINKSYS WRT1900AC AC1900 DUAL-BAND SMART WI-FI WIRELESS ROUTER
    Asus RT-AC68U Dual-band Wireless-AC1900 Gigabit Router


At the same time, would anyone mind to teach me how to choose a router to fit my own personal need? What is the criteria to choose a good router? *Excluding budget*

Thank you very much and much appreciated.
 
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Criteria for a wireless router for home varies by many factors. For the best decision you need to figure out a few things:
1) What it will be used for - which you have said is gaming and general home environment
Does it need to do anything else like VPN, UTM services like bandwidth control, antivirus, web management?
2) How many and what type devices you are connecting - How many wired and how many wireless. Are the wireless 2.4 or 5ghz. If 5ghz can they use the new AC standard?
3) Speed of your internet connection - which you have identified at 5Gb/s
Personally I would go with a wired (only) router and use an AP for my wireless devices. This is especially true if you want to utilize more than 1Gb/s of your internet connection.
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Hi kanewolf,

I am not using any consumer router which will support 5 GBPS WAN.

I was asking if there any router able to support 5GBPS.

Since there is no way to support 5GBPS WAN, any router you can recommend from ASUS or LINKSYS?
 
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Sorry. I don't get what is this mean. "What will be connected".
Are you able to give me some examples?

Let's forget about the router that can run 5GBPS connection speed.

If I want to get a home router that used for home environment and gaming purpose?

And how to choose a router? What criteria I should look into?

Take this router as an example.

http://www.linksys.com/sg/p/P-WRT1900AC/?georedirect=1
 
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Criteria for a wireless router for home varies by many factors. For the best decision you need to figure out a few things:
1) What it will be used for - which you have said is gaming and general home environment
Does it need to do anything else like VPN, UTM services like bandwidth control, antivirus, web management?
2) How many and what type devices you are connecting - How many wired and how many wireless. Are the wireless 2.4 or 5ghz. If 5ghz can they use the new AC standard?
3) Speed of your internet connection - which you have identified at 5Gb/s
Personally I would go with a wired (only) router and use an AP for my wireless devices. This is especially true if you want to utilize more than 1Gb/s of your internet connection.
The sweet spot as far as value for the money is the 1900AC routers out right now. But it really depends on the devices I mentioned in #2.
 
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First you never use a wireless connection for gaming so that means the wireless stats should not matter much to you. This means a much simpler router will work fine.

You have to avoid being drawn into the trap of bigger numbers is better. ac1900 routers are pretty much a waste of money for the vast majority of people.

They use a non standard 600m protocol that is not supported on the vast majority of devices. On top of that to get 600 or 1300 on 802.11ac your end device needs 4 antenna which is extremely rare. Even 3 antenna end devices are rare. This means that you can buy a fancy router but if your end devices don't support the features you will be limited to the speed of your end devices.

You need to analyze your actual needs and not be misdirected marketing hype.
 
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Regards point #2, I think there are 5 PC and 7 WiFi devices connected.

Personally, I would prefer UTM services like bandwidth control.

Should I still go for AC1900?

According to bill001g

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bill001g is absolutely right about a gaming computer needs to be wired. Wireless for a serious gamer is a recipe for frustration and tears. As far as 1900AC vs others. Personally I would not recommend more than 1900AC right now unless you have a particular reason for the latest and greatest. Now you can certainly choose a 1750 or even a 1200AC router, but I would definately choose an AC router even if you do not have any AC clients. One thing you could do is go over to smallnetbuilder.com and use their router charts, rater ranker, and router chooser and see what routers are good for what is important to you.
For example at the time I upgraded I had all wireless N clients and did not see a need to get an AC router until I saw these test: http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wireless/wireless-features/32512-does-an-ac-router-improve-n-device-performance
Based on this I bought an Asus RT-AC68U. It was perfect for me. My laptop, which is wireless N, went from 80Mb/s over wireless to 130Mb/s. So it really depends on what is important to you. bill001g has a point about the 1900AC, but there are other reasons to purchase a 1900AC class router besides just what type wireless it puts out. There are other things like ram, processor, firmware, that can speed up a wireless connection. Anyway there is no substitute for doing your homework, and you have started that by posting here.
 
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Hi, last time I compare the price for RT-AC68U and WRT1900AC.
WRT1900AC is slightly cheaper than RT-AC68U.

Therefore, if I really need to purchase, should I go for WRT1900AC?

Additional question, if I purchase this router from other country, am I still able to use it at another country?
Hearsay, it is quite impossible. Because of the LAN issue.
 
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There are different laws depending on the country the device is designed for. There are tables that show the radio frequencies and power allowed by most countries. For example EU countries can only run the higher group of 5g channels at 25mw where the USA can run them at 1watt. The least restrictive ones are follow russia laws.

Now technically it will work to take your equipment to another country. What happens to you if you run on unauthorized channels or power is likely nothing but then again there are some countries that you do not want to risk even minor violations of the law.
 
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