spacediver
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I live in a house with 6 of us sharing a connection, and we're spread through three floors. Our (cable modem) connection is 35/3 (mbits) and we're using a Linksys WRT5GL with Tomato. It's a solid router, and with Tomato I'm able to monitor bandwidth and set up QOS. I'm connected with ethernet to the router, but everyone else is wireless.
I'm the only one that gets to enjoy the full speed of the connection, and I suspect that this is due to the router being out of date relative to newer standards/speeds. Also, one of the tenants here who lives upstairs has unreliable connectivity, due to the distance and/or wall interference from router.
So I'm looking to upgrade to a modern router, and could use some advice.
I think simultaneous dual band is the way to go, and I also would like to be able to install custom firmware such as tomato or DD-WRT. My most pressing needs are bandwidth monitoring (for entire network and/or individual ips, and the ability to set up QOS).
I'm not sure I need much else in a router, so I'm trying to avoid paying for features that are of no value.
I'll be purchasing from Canada Computers, but am also open to buying one online. I'm also open to buying a wifi extender or two if necessary.
Does anyone have any advice?
thanks!
I'm the only one that gets to enjoy the full speed of the connection, and I suspect that this is due to the router being out of date relative to newer standards/speeds. Also, one of the tenants here who lives upstairs has unreliable connectivity, due to the distance and/or wall interference from router.
So I'm looking to upgrade to a modern router, and could use some advice.
I think simultaneous dual band is the way to go, and I also would like to be able to install custom firmware such as tomato or DD-WRT. My most pressing needs are bandwidth monitoring (for entire network and/or individual ips, and the ability to set up QOS).
I'm not sure I need much else in a router, so I'm trying to avoid paying for features that are of no value.
I'll be purchasing from Canada Computers, but am also open to buying one online. I'm also open to buying a wifi extender or two if necessary.
Does anyone have any advice?
thanks!