AP300 or AP 500?

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I see.

In that case it just comes down to what the access point is that is feeding you internet.

In reality a tplink or asus ac1200 will probably be just fine.

If security is of any concern of yours then I would get a wifi bridge AND a router.
This way you will protect your devices from everyone else in your building, as well as the college internet.
So you setup a wifi bridge (likley on 2.4 band) then run wire from it to WAN port of router and then setup router as desired.
This also allows you to use 5ghz band on the router for your own use, and also lets you do things like say stream a movie to your own TV/Display device.
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Would need to know the rest of the backstory here.

The router setup as an AP/Bridge is only going to work as fast as the source, so if the source is N600 or AC1200 then an AC1900 is not going to make it any faster.

Is this for a normal home environment? If so then a powerline adapter (AV1000 or faster) would perform better and be cheaper than turning an AC router into a bridge.
 
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I'm moving to a studio for my studies and the only Internet I will have there is Wifi from a "router" that has no ports ( it's implemented into the ceiling too ) So I was looking for something to be able to transform that Wifi into Ethernet. I was also told that the Wifi used is the same that the University has ( so I suppose it's a good one ). So I was wondering which one of those two bridges would best suit my case, since both have an Ethernet port of 10/100/1000 MBPS
 
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Comes down to that access point in the ceiling than.
If it is not recently upgraded it is likely N300, with a very slight chance it is N600. At which point both routers are overkill for what they can handle.

You will need to make sure from your university that this is ok.
There are few different ways in managed network environment to prevent rouge acces points/bridges/routers from being used on the network. So if they have any of this implemented then configuring any router as a wireless bridge wont work.
 
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Sorry I didn't make myself clear enough, it's like the University's internet. I'm not in any kind of dorms related to the University. They simply have the same Internet. Also I was told by the landlord that someone had a gaming PC and had the same question I had. Whether or not there was LAN and he found a way. So I think you can have a bridge router
 
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boosted1g

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I see.

In that case it just comes down to what the access point is that is feeding you internet.

In reality a tplink or asus ac1200 will probably be just fine.

If security is of any concern of yours then I would get a wifi bridge AND a router.
This way you will protect your devices from everyone else in your building, as well as the college internet.
So you setup a wifi bridge (likley on 2.4 band) then run wire from it to WAN port of router and then setup router as desired.
This also allows you to use 5ghz band on the router for your own use, and also lets you do things like say stream a movie to your own TV/Display device.
 
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That's a good idea tbh, so the AP300 would be enough. Tbh I was only wondering about the Ethernet ports but wanted some opinions on it haha. So I should use the AP300 as a bridge and then connect it to a router (via cable) and from it connect to all my wired devices. Got any ideas for a good router?
 
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