Help me choose a WIFI router

Question

WiFi

Advise a good, fast wifi router, from 3 to 6 thousand rubles? I would like to get a decent router for home use, in a 2-room apartment. The main devices connected via Wi-Fi are phones, iPad, Apple TV.

Before that, there was an unsuccessful experience of using routers: TP-Link WR1043ND and a very old Trendnet.

Answer 1

It's a pity they don't bring anything (officially) from Lynksys to Russia.
But if there are acquaintances in the states, Europe - who can bring, then even the top-end E4200 fits into the given budget. Reviews can be read online.

Answer 2

Let me give you a small example from life that can serve as advice. Many scold D-Link DIR-300, attributing everything to it. But my copyist works in a three-room apartment with thick walls (about 4 load-bearing bricks) and serves the following devices: iMac, my mom's desktop, iPhone, iPad and laptop. Moreover, everything is on Wi-Fi. A large number of ports have been forwarded, sometimes I also start a small server (separate desktop) to test various things. And nothing is heated and does not break for more than a year. Working hours - 24/7. So the question is: what am I doing wrong? For a home router, the DIR-300 is quite good, isn't it?

Answer 3

Netgear wndr3700 (3800) or Asus rt-n56u.
In any case, I advise you to pay attention to the 2-band models, so that later you can switch to 5 GHz.
I personally have a wndr3800 with OpenWRT and I am very happy that I switched to 5 GHz.

Answer 4

and official from Apple then why not like it? =)

Answer 5

I have a Linksys E-1200. Easy to set up, stable, more than enough features for home use.

Answer 6

I bought Airport Express and Airport Extreme at one time, in my opinion they are so ideal things, especially if you have the entire infrastructure from Apple.
Well, for experiments, I have an ASUS RT-N16, there are firmware and probambas and DD-WRT.
And Apple works, it just works for the 3rd year pleases.

Answer 7

from personal experience:
- D-LINK DIR-300_NRU reliable, simple, inexpensive, can pptp and l2tp with access to the local network. of the minuses: up to the hardware version b5 is slow: up to 10 Mbps PPTP or L2TP (revision B5 pumps about 40 Mbps), there is a marriage, it can also overheat.
— D-LINK DIR-615: performance strongly depends on the hardware model (good b and e revisions) In principle, it’s good, the price is pleasant, good coverage area, stable signal, it can IPv6 in the new firmware version (B revision), More productive than the younger ones models.
- D-LINK DIR-655 More expensive, a lot of goodies, wifi up to 300 Mbps, three antennas, a lot of small goodies. of the minuses is the same mess with firmware.
I didn’t really feel the rest, there were a couple of acquaintances with the ASUS RT-N10, the horror of death, besides, TP-LINKs some time ago had a mess with firmware and hardware revisions.
Also, the latest Trenda models are quite tolerable. DIR-300_NRU, by the way, is a very popular model due to its low cost and WIFi up to 150 Mbps (I strongly recommend the b5 hardware version)
Be that as it may, anything in the middle price category from 3 to 6 thousand will be a good purchase, worth just pay attention to protocol support, static routing (just in case), and the ability to work with a local network and the Internet at the same time, but otherwise there are no big differences between them.

Answer 8

I have a WRT160NL with dd-wrt. It works fine on native firmware as well (I don’t know about native firmware and Apple, but it works fine on wrt macbook. I left my native one because you can connect with the provider without vpn, but you need an authorizer (for the sake of it, and firmware). I think that linksys E-series will suit you just right, and it's not a shame to put it on the shelf!