Wireless Router Recommendation Work and Play

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Dende

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I work from home re-imaging dozens and dozens of laptops at a time. In addition I'm running several instances of Netflix. I have 50Mb/s internet and I don't have many bandwidth issues until I use wireless. I have tried several "cheep" wireless routers and now I'm ready to move to a GOOD wireless router. I have looked at asus and netgear but I can't decide which one is the best for what I want to use. oh and I game a LOT lmao. So about 20 laptops 2 phones 2 tables a wii and xbox, a smart tv and one hardwired PC (maybe moving to wireless soon) Oh and I want to be able to plug a hard drive into the router for Nas access as well :p

LMAO so I'm asking for a LOT and I want fast reliability and NAS capable. Any ideas???

Oh and I don't care who makes it I just have looked at asus and netgear so far.
 
Wire the laptops you're re-imaging and go for an access point for the wireless.

That way you keep the majority of stuff the way you're familiar with and you can spend a little more on the access point.
 
Dende said:
I want fast reliability and NAS capable. Any ideas???
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Ditch the thought of wireless as it is neither of these. It won't matter what wireless device you have if you are using a large number of clients, especially if you are reinstalling machines over wifi. Take the slowest link rate, multiply it by 60%, then divide that by the number of clients. So let's say you connect a device at 130mbps using N. multiply by 60%, (78) then divide by number of clients, which in your case is 27. That means that in a perfect scenario each client can a bit under 3mbps (384KBps) total bandwidth, regardless of if it is up or down, and it will likely slow down if there is traffic in both directions.

Like BigBadAl stated, wire in as many things as possible. If you are working from home and constantly moving lots of data getting a 24 port gigabit switch will be the biggest productivity upgrade you could make. (You can get up to 1000mbps PER device in either direction at the same time) Only leave the devices which have to be on wireless not plugged in so they get as much bandwidth as possible.

Also, depending upon your NAS needs it would be better to have a wired pc running windows for that as well since most soho nas devices are very slow. Just plug the drive into your computer and make a share for it.
 
bman212121 said:
Ditch the thought of wireless as it is neither of these. It won't matter what wireless device you have if you are using a large number of clients, especially if you are reinstalling machines over wifi. Take the slowest link rate, multiply it by 60%, then divide that by the number of clients. So let's say you connect a device at 130mbps using N. multiply by 60%, (78) then divide by number of clients, which in your case is 27. That means that in a perfect scenario each client can a bit under 3mbps (384KBps) total bandwidth, regardless of if it is up or down, and it will likely slow down if there is traffic in both directions.

Like BigBadAl stated, wire in as many things as possible. If you are working from home and constantly moving lots of data getting a 24 port gigabit switch will be the biggest productivity upgrade you could make. (You can get up to 1000mbps PER device in either direction at the same time) Only leave the devices which have to be on wireless not plugged in so they get as much bandwidth as possible.

Also, depending upon your NAS needs it would be better to have a wired pc running windows for that as well since most soho nas devices are very slow. Just plug the drive into your computer and make a share for it.
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100% agreed with the above. Wireless is not an option for this many clients. Especially on any sort of consumer grade equipment, maybe you would see some improvement if you wanted to spend a grand on enterprise APs and proper configuration.....
 
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