Better Between ASUS RT-N66U or RT-N18U ??

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unknownboy63

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Hi,

I have to buy Either ASUS RT-N66U or RT-N18U, no other choices. My Home Broadband Connection is Only 3 Mbps (bit) Web Bandwidth with 25 Mbps (Bangladesh Internet Exchange - Internal Connectivity + YouTube/Google Cache) speed. I have only One device which supports 5 GHz Network.

Sometimes, I think to buy RT-N66U, because of it's 5 GHz Network. Again, I think to buy RT-N18U as I have nothing to do special with 5 GHz specifically. Better to get 600 Mbps on 2.4 GHz & 1 USB 3.0 Port.

From here, I got to know,

RT-N18U has Broadcom BCM47081A0 with Wireless NIC Broadcom BCM4360.

RT-N66U has Broadcom BCM4706 with Wireless NIC Broadcom BCM4331 x 2.

Can anyone confirm Me which is better based on Chipset & Wireless Structure rather than anything else ?? I should go based on this apart from anything.

Thanks.
 
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You likely will see little difference on the 2.4g band most the difference is support of non standard data encoding to go form 450-600 that many devices do not support so they will run 450 and that assumes they have 3 antenna most only have 2.

5g support is important if you get a lot of interference from outside you house. There are lots of people using wifi and sometimes the 2.4g band is over crowded.

If price is your main concern asus makes a rt-1200. Why you can get a 802.11ac router for less than 802.11n routers I don't really know, competition from other suppliers I guess. This router will run on 802.11n at 300 on 2.4g and 300 on 5g because it only support 2 antenna feeds.
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You likely will see little difference on the 2.4g band most the difference is support of non standard data encoding to go form 450-600 that many devices do not support so they will run 450 and that assumes they have 3 antenna most only have 2.

5g support is important if you get a lot of interference from outside you house. There are lots of people using wifi and sometimes the 2.4g band is over crowded.

If price is your main concern asus makes a rt-1200. Why you can get a 802.11ac router for less than 802.11n routers I don't really know, competition from other suppliers I guess. This router will run on 802.11n at 300 on 2.4g and 300 on 5g because it only support 2 antenna feeds.
 
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