Any good router under or around 150$

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Ishit Arya

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So, initially I was going to buy Edgerouter X-Sfp but the installation of it is extremely difficult and I'm new to home networking.

My ISP provide 10-15 mbps speed (I know it's not a lot...)

I need a router that could manage low ping even when others are downloading and streaming contents.

I've heard about Netgear R7000p, how is it? Is it a good router?
 
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Your main issue is a slow ISP connection. In some ways that is good because you do not need a fancy router to keep up. If your require a DSL modem in the router it will reduce your choice.

Be very careful about chasing big numbers. In many cases your end devices can not run that fast. In the example router you give do your end devices even support mu-mimo which is how they "say" they can keep traffic separate. This is a pretty new feature and not a lot of end devices support it.

In general you are going to have issue with a 10-15mpbs connection if multiple people are attempting to use it. There really is not enough bandwidth if you have lots of download and video streaming going on. The solution to this is to get some...
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Your main issue is a slow ISP connection. In some ways that is good because you do not need a fancy router to keep up. If your require a DSL modem in the router it will reduce your choice.

Be very careful about chasing big numbers. In many cases your end devices can not run that fast. In the example router you give do your end devices even support mu-mimo which is how they "say" they can keep traffic separate. This is a pretty new feature and not a lot of end devices support it.

In general you are going to have issue with a 10-15mpbs connection if multiple people are attempting to use it. There really is not enough bandwidth if you have lots of download and video streaming going on. The solution to this is to get some agreement on how the Internet is to be shared. After you have this agreement you can look for a router that QoS feature and you can attempt to enforce the agreement.

Still QoS is not magic, it can only partially solve the problem and has issues if someone intentionally tries to circumvent it.

Unless you have some special requirements you do not need a high end router. Any router that has good QoS should work fine. Asus and Tplink have pretty good QoS in factory images.

A router like a Asus as56u you can get for under $100. It is one of the simpler ones to configure. The added bonus is it support merlin firmware. This is a fairly advanced third party firmware but is very simple to install and use...unlike dd-wrt or tomato.
 
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