Medium Range Wireless Router - 50Mbps Connection

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Right now, my Netgear WNDR3400 v1 does not cut it. I get about 35Mbps while sitting next to it and about 5Mbps when being away from it for like 5 feet with 1 sheet rock wall in between. Wired connection gives me 50Mbps at all times by the way.

Is there any router you would advice for a 850sq feet apartment with sheet rock walls and with a 50Mbps download connection that could handle to keep up with these speeds?

I have a budget of less than $100... I would preferably spend around $50 though.

I was looking at the TP-Link Archer AC routers myself.

Does AC really make a difference compared to N if I am using the 2.4ghz connection?


Thank you, let me know if you have more questions.
 
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Your problem is likely a combination of your end devices and your router. Just like you say that some of your equipment does not support 5g a lot of your equipment likely does not support thing like higher density mimo. Things like 3x3 and 4x4 require the end equipment to have 3 and 4 antenna and the router would also have to have this. Then you have things like non standard data encoding some router use to claim higher speeds which some end devices will never support because they are non standard.

If you look at the very fastest routers than can run on 2.4g talking to the very rare cards that have 4 antenna you might get 70m.

Getting 35m is not that bad a number if your end device is only a single feed (ie 150m) device.

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AC adds range.
THe other BIG facotr is you live an apartment which has a cojpletley saturated 2.4 ghz so if you can get all of your devices onto a 5ghz band that will help A LOT.

For the $50-100 budget i highly suggest this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MYTAURW/ref=olp_product_details?_encoding=UTF8&me=
It is a sepcial tmobile-branded version of the ASUS RT-AC68U, so that is a $81 router with the exact same parts of a $155 router.
And the whole tmobile stuff is irrelevant you can use it just like any normal router.
 
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But if they don't support 5ghz.. then it's not worth the money... Only my Amazon Fire Stick would support it.

 
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Thanks, that's what I thought. Do you suggest any router that would be able to keep 50Mbps at all times in an apartment range?

 
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Your problem is likely a combination of your end devices and your router. Just like you say that some of your equipment does not support 5g a lot of your equipment likely does not support thing like higher density mimo. Things like 3x3 and 4x4 require the end equipment to have 3 and 4 antenna and the router would also have to have this. Then you have things like non standard data encoding some router use to claim higher speeds which some end devices will never support because they are non standard.

If you look at the very fastest routers than can run on 2.4g talking to the very rare cards that have 4 antenna you might get 70m.

Getting 35m is not that bad a number if your end device is only a single feed (ie 150m) device.

Now this is totally ignoring the most common issue causing slow speeds. When you live in apartments you have massive amounts of wifi signals coming into your place from other peoples equipment. This causes lots of interference which reduces your throughput. New routers or nic cards can not solve this issue.

This is why you need to run as much as possible on wired connections. The things that can not run wired it soon becomes the question of why do you really need that much speed. Most wireless devices are used to consume internet content like video or web pages they do not need huge amounts of bandwidth.
 
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