BEST LINKSYS ROUTER - Dubai

sulfonicwharf · May 31, 2016

I live in Dubai and I need to get a new router to replace my e1000.
I have a repeater (RE1000) but my router has died out and so I need a new one to replace it.
I live in a 4000 sq.ft 5 bedroom house with concrete walls
I need a linksys router.
My budget is around AED 500 which is around $150

Thanks

Ralston18 · May 31, 2016

"Best" is subjective so you may want to quantify your requirements a bit more.

That said, consider the Linksys WRT1900AC.

May be just a bit over your budget but I have found the router to be a good overall choice.

sulfonicwharf · Jun 11, 2016

Ralston18 :

How well will the WRT1200AC work?
Unfortunately I also need to cover my garden so it is 9000 sq.ft {over here WRT1900AC is for $350

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Ralston18 · Jun 13, 2016

Sort of hard pressed to provide an answer. So many factors involved.

Coverage is rarely perfect or symmetric. Other devices, wiring, etc. can interfere. Router quality is important. All sorts of details apply.

One of which is that the router's output power is limited by design so there are other considerations to be made.

Compare the specifications of the WRT1200AC and the WRT1900AC and take a look at placement options. Maybe the 1200 will work but could require an extension of some sort.

What are the risks involved with purchasing a 1200 and needing to return it? Could end up more than purchasing the very expensive 1900..... (That is a really high price - would hope that you can find the router for less somewhere. What do the 1200's cost? Can you run some wires to connect a pair of 1200's maybe for total less cost?

Can you borrow a 1200 or 1900 from someone to test for awhile? Just few days would be worth the effort I think.

bill001g · Jun 13, 2016

You have a number of issues. With concrete walls you are going to have massive amounts of signal be blocked. Even worse the 802.11ac stuff only uses 5g band which is blocked even more by concrete. You will get the best coverage on the 2.4g band. This means you may not get any benefit to buying any form of 802.11ac router. No way to know without actually trying it.

Be very careful about chasing magic numbers. The bigger number does not mean it covers more distance. It means a certain signal level you get more data. The signal level itself though is based on radio output power and that is limited by the government. So the distance the signal goes is a function of radio power which most manufacture run close to the maximum.

1200 is the optimum price performance point on 802.11ac for most people. It uses 2 overlapping feeds ie 2 antenna. Since most end devices do not have more than 2 antenna buying a router that has more will just be a feature that is not used.

The 1750 ones use 3 antenna methods. It will run just as fast as the 1200 ones if your end device do not have 3 antenna.

The 1900 is almost a scam and should be avoided. It is basically a 1750 type of router with 3 feeds but in addition it uses a proprietary encoding on the 2.4g band to get 600m rather than 450. This is not part of the 802.11n standard and is only supported by certain chip vendors. It is not supported by most end user devices because it is not part of the standard. This means it is highly unlikely your end device can use this feature. So it is pretty much a waste of money for most people.

I would look into using powerline networks to get past the concrete walls. You could then put in inexpensive AP in the remote rooms to get coverage. There are some powerline units that now have wireless AP built in .

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