Who makes the best value / quality wireless routers / APs / extenders ? (on a budget)

uberalles

Hi,

Im familiar enough with wired routers but looking for recommendations on makes / models of:

Is there any brand that is the industrial standard / is outstanding in the wireless field but not excessively priced?

wireless repeater - power line adapters type.
wireless repeater - standard (non power line)
Access point - power line type.
Access points - non power line type

(I realise most routers can be turned into an AP but are there any good ones specific to the task that are a good bang for the buck?)

Budget would be 100 euro per item. I dont want very high end expensive kit.

I want to buy a sample and see whats best. Anyone have any good

u140acro3xs7dm

TP Link, one of the cheapest and very effective.

uberalles

I bought two TP-Link repeaters. One refuses to broadcast its SSID and the other is not the best.

A to link router on its own keeps dropping. Ive been unlucky with tp link

Anyone have an alt favourite ?

Freddy Smelly

netgear make a great wireless ac standard router... pricey at €200+ but 1.6gb/s wifi upto 50metres (you also need wireless ac standard wifi cards) but the range on them is unreal... my friend has one and i can be 300metres from his house and still get over 200mb/s speeds from it

http://www.netgear.com/about/press-releases/2012/09172012.aspx

PogMoThoin

Freddy Smelly wrote: »

netgear make a great wireless ac standard router... pricey at €200+ but 1.6gb/s wifi upto 50metres (you also need wireless ac standard wifi cards) but the range on them is unreal... my friend has one and i can be 300metres from his house and still get over 200mb/s speeds from it

http://www.netgear.com/about/press-releases/2012/09172012.aspx

Ah, come on now Ted

It may be a good router, but I very much doubt your claims. You do know that syncing at a 200mbit/s sync rate doesn't mean you're getting 200mbit/s. Quoted wireless speeds are completely optimistic, they only do it once, in a lab, in a Faraday cage, in one direction only.

WTF? 200+ quid on a household router, are you fcukin mad? :eek: Netgear do make decent routers, but no wireless router is worth 200+ quid.

Op, check out the Mikrotik I've mentioned in a few threads, it's a decent price and is 1Watt so really powerful
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056918804

Freddy Smelly

PogMoThoin wrote: »

Ah, come on now Ted

It may be a good router, but I very much doubt your claims. You do know that syncing at a 200mbit/s sync rate doesn't mean you're getting 200mbit/s. Quoted wireless speeds are completely optimistic, they only do it once, in a lab, in a Faraday cage, in one direction only.

WTF? 200+ quid on a household router, are you fcukin mad? :eek: Netgear do make decent routers, but no wireless router is worth 200+ quid.

Op, check out the Mikrotik I've mentioned in a few threads, it's a decent price and is 1Watt so really powerful
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056918804

as i said in my previous post you NEED a wireless ac standard wifi card to get the big range. wifi n or g standard cards wont get the range

most routers for less than €100 are trash for wifi range

wireless ac routers have been around alot longer than b, g or n its only now starting to become cheap enough to afford

PogMoThoin

You need your head examined if you're spending 200+ quid on a household router.

I guarantee that 1watt Mikrotik has better range, albeit only an "n" router. You don't mention that the reviews state that it's wireless performance in the 2.4Ghz range is terrible, which rules out most devices, laptops, smartphones available today. Reviews say the speeds max at about 54mbit on wireless "n", here is a post where I have my Mikrokik doing 103mbit http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=83469090&postcount=32, this is the old model RB751 Mikrotik, not the more powerful RB951