Need to Buy Dual Band Router For Video streaming over wifi Max 6K

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Marcus Fenix

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Hi All,
Currently I am using a Cisco Linksys E900 router and I am not too happy with it as the connection drops and I need to reset the router manually whenever I am copying files over wifi from my shared drive.
The primary purpose is to watch movies on my devices using a shared drive from my low power D/L rig.
All my devices now support 5 GHz and so I am thinking of jumping on the dual bandwagon.:P
Can you guys please help me out.Budget is 6 K max.Dont need AC routers as none of my devices support that.
I am looking at this
http://www.flipkart.com/asus-rt-n53...uter&ref=26014b2a-aae9-48f4-9633-6b294dc59ddf

Can somebody share their thoughts?P.S. I am a bit biased towards Asus as my old 150 Mbps Asus router worked flawlessly compared to the vaunted 300 Mbps Cisco:(
 
Higher bandwidth does not give you more speed in all situations.

That said, AC routers have 3x3 configurations for the most part and are a better idea just for that. The cheap D-link ones are around the 5K mark and do offer a/n support as well.

In more traditional dual-band terms, the Netgear WNDR3700 V3 is a beast, I have been running one for ~3 years now with nary a glitch, great streaming performance both wired and wireless. If it gets real hot it drops connection - some times in April to June (it's in an attic and under the house roof, so that's my issue). Otherwise works a treat. Should be just around 6k now. Also support is just top-notch, When I was facing a problem with my JNR3210 I got excellent support with a two hour call from the support team in the US. They really know how to keep a customer!
 
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Guys does anybody have some more suggestion or should I go ahead with the WNDR3700 V3 as suggested by cranky.It is available @ebay for 5.4k with coupons
 
I got a dual band router from dlink dir 803 AC 750 for 2k..its performance and range is better than my WR841...but this is a budget router.
 
cranky said:
Higher bandwidth does not give you more speed in all situations.

That said, AC routers have 3x3 configurations for the most part and are a better idea just for that. The cheap D-link ones are around the 5K mark and do offer a/n support as well.

In more traditional dual-band terms, the Netgear WNDR3700 V3 is a beast, I have been running one for ~3 years now with nary a glitch, great streaming performance both wired and wireless. If it gets real hot it drops connection - some times in April to June (it's in an attic and under the house roof, so that's my issue). Otherwise works a treat. Should be just around 6k now. Also support is just top-notch, When I was facing a problem with my JNR3210 I got excellent support with a two hour call from the support team in the US. They really know how to keep a customer!
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Ok then as per cranky's hands on experience I am going ahead with the WNDR3700 v3 at around 5.4K on ebay.Thanks everybody for chipping in.....
 
So I placed an order for the WNDR3700v3 from ebay
http://www.ebay.in/itm/160769451958?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649

And today the seller called me up to say that it is unavailable and they can send me a WNDR4300 instead.

The reviews seem to say that the WNDR3700v4 is a stripped down version of the WNDR4300 which should mean that the WNDR4300 is better than the v3 I ordered on paper but since the market price of both routers are the same it seems to me that the WNDR3700 might be a tad better at real world usage than the 4300.

Does anybody have any hands on experience with this WNDR4300?


Thanks in advance
 
There's no co-relation between the v3 and v4, they use completely different chipsets. Two people already returned the WNDR4300 in this thread citing poor range : https://www.techenclave.com/communi...fi-router-tomorrow.168741/page-2#post-1983414 . Since you haven't mentioned any details about what sort of coverage you want, I have no idea if this applies to you as well.

FWIW the OP from that thread seemed to have much better luck with the RT-N12, which has very similar hardware to your E900. I'm not sure if I'd call the E900 vaunted - it is after all their cheapest router - but sounds like there's something buggy with yours, or you're using it at the edge of its coverage area.
 
Crazy_Eddy said:
There's no co-relation between the v3 and v4, they use completely different chipsets. Two people already returned the WNDR4300 in this thread citing poor range : https://www.techenclave.com/communi...fi-router-tomorrow.168741/page-2#post-1983414 . Since you haven't mentioned any details about what sort of coverage you want, I have no idea if this applies to you as well.

FWIW the OP from that thread seemed to have much better luck with the RT-N12, which has very similar hardware to your E900. I'm not sure if I'd call the E900 vaunted - it is after all their cheapest router - but sounds like there's something buggy with yours, or you're using it at the edge of its coverage area.
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Coverage will not be an issue as I mostly stream my stuff in the same room where my router is and nobody else in my hone uses the wifi.Range of max 30 ft will be okay for me but my only concern is the throughput.E900 is a POS compared to a basic RT-N10 150 Mbps router.The E900 is now dropping the wifi connection at random whenever I try to fast forward (on MPC-HC using Ctrl+Right Arrow) on videos and wmv files are a major pain even for normal playback.
I have to restart the router every time this happens even though Windows shows that the laptop is connected to wifi.
 
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