raksrules
Oracle
Here is my situation. I am using a TP Link WR841N router which I bought for like $18 1.5 years back. It is serving me pretty well. My internet plan is 30 Mbps down and when I am in same room as router I am able to pull those speeds but when I am pretty far like in the storage room I can barely pull 5 Mbps. This is a non issue in most scenarios. But now I have got to a point that at any point in my house, I have 15+ devices (mix of laptop, ipad, iphone, android phone, firestick) connected to wifi. All those phones connected to the wifi constantly play video (I am using those earning apps, I am in US).
Now I have observed that this router is unable to handle so much traffic and so many devices). Additionally, what happens is that many a times say my phone will lose connection to the wifi and I have to manually turn off wifi on some other device for my phone to catch the wifi.
So basically I seem to have reached an upper limit of my router's ability (actual not theoretical) to handle simultaneous devices and more importantly because they are pulling video constantly.
Now I got some advice about using a separate Access Point but I wanted to test this first. I had a small wall unit wifi router which can act like a repeater / AP / router and here is what happened...
This blackfriday, I am considering getting a new powerful router and using my existing TPLink router as an access point (if needed). The options I am considering are..
Netgear R6400 AC1750
Netgear R7000 AC1900
TP-Link Archer C7 AC1750
Any Suggestions on how I should go about it ? I was suggested to use a non wifi router / switch kind of device and an access point but I am not very much in favor of that (would rather have less units), still I am open to suggestions.
Now I have observed that this router is unable to handle so much traffic and so many devices). Additionally, what happens is that many a times say my phone will lose connection to the wifi and I have to manually turn off wifi on some other device for my phone to catch the wifi.
So basically I seem to have reached an upper limit of my router's ability (actual not theoretical) to handle simultaneous devices and more importantly because they are pulling video constantly.
Now I got some advice about using a separate Access Point but I wanted to test this first. I had a small wall unit wifi router which can act like a repeater / AP / router and here is what happened...
- I found an unused small sized wall unit thing (small sized router) at my home which can act as a repeater, Access Point and a router. This is actually crap because it sort of turns off automatically after some time and won't show up on any devices. Ignore that for now.
- So I took a LAN / Ethernet cable from my TPLink router and connected to the LAN/WAN port of this small router and put it in AP mode (as per manual).
- Now I had 2 SSIDs that I could access at my home say OLD1 and NEW1. I connected one laptop, 2 phones to this NEW1 SSID now. This took some load off from the OLD1 SSID.
- On one of my laptops, I run a tab from a website where I would run 3 videos simultaneously. With everything being connected to OLD1 SSID, I would see 1 or 2 of those videos continuously buffering or not playing at all, so I resorted to having only 2 videos running simultaneously (and that too would buffer many a times).
- Now when I connected this laptop to NEW1 SSID, all the 3 videos started running smoothly and no stops.
- Now that small router (which I set as AP) crapped out and won't show up on any phone. It keeps happening and only fix is restart it (doesn't work anymore, its dead). So this is not something I can use it daily. Now that Laptop started connecting back to OLD1 SSID and now I am back at video buffering and such issues.
This blackfriday, I am considering getting a new powerful router and using my existing TPLink router as an access point (if needed). The options I am considering are..
Netgear R6400 AC1750
Netgear R7000 AC1900
TP-Link Archer C7 AC1750
Any Suggestions on how I should go about it ? I was suggested to use a non wifi router / switch kind of device and an access point but I am not very much in favor of that (would rather have less units), still I am open to suggestions.
