Suggestions for router with longest range?

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deepakvrao

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Need to buy one for my brother, but need a range that should extend from second floor to ground floor. Will buy what you guys suggest, and relocate the router to first floor if range is still inadequate, but re locating would be my last resort. Painful re wiring would be needed.
 
Don't mind spending for that if it will definitely work the distance of two floors, but would prefer something around 3K.
 
Sorry bro but IMHO, any router under 3k will not cover three floors.

You need to shell out ~ 7- 8 K to have better coverage on all floors.

You can consider Belkin N750, Asus RT-N56, Netgear WNDR3700 or Linksys e3000.
 
I vote against the belkin N750, as my Belkin Playmax N600 gigabit is giving worst range than my N13u B1. Go for N56. You will never regret.
 
At 3K your best bet would be a TP-Link 941ND. It has got 3 x 5 dbi antennae which helps coverage. I have a TP-Link 841N which easily covers the 2 floors. The 941ND shoud be better. Any router which betters this one would be twice as costly.
 
bobbyprajan said:
At 3K your best bet would be a TP-Link 941ND. It has got 3 x 5 dbi antennae which helps coverage. I have a TP-Link 841N which easily covers the 2 floors. The 941ND shoud be better. Any router which betters this one would be twice as costly.
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Never heard of this make, but I googled it, and still can't find where I can order it from. Any suggestions?
 
Relocated his router [old Belkin G of mine for now] to the first floor, and I get semi decent coverage all around. Ordered the cheap Asus RT10 N router from Flipkart. Will see how it work. If it does not give enough coverage, I was thinking of buying another cheap router and doing this:

http://www6.nohold.n...erted=0#LAN_WAN

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Or this:

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Will it work to increase range?
 
If you do the second the DHCP will be done by the third party router.

If you do the first the wifi third party router will act as a Access point,the main router will do the DHCP.

Both should have the same range,but going tbe second method may increase the ping time to servers.
 
Thanks. I guess I'll wait for Flipkart to deliver the RT-N10, and see if that alone is adequate after the relocation to the first floor.
 
If your routers are compatible, you can try setting up a WDS where one of the router will be a transparent relay. It will use same SSID and the primary router will take care of DHCP.
 
Well, the RT-N10LZ has even worse range than my old Belkin G. Managed to get signal wherever I need, with some positional changes of the old router itself.
 
having 5ghz routers help in powering range of 720p/1080p mkv etc streaming even if you dont have much of interference from cordless etc. ??

Thanks

deepakvrao said:
Well, the RT-N10LZ has even worse range than my old Belkin G. Managed to get signal wherever I need, with some positional changes of the old router itself.
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try flashing it with dd-wrt.
 
LT,

I have no clue what that is, other than what I saw when I googled it now. Any suggestions? Can I use one WDS based router with the existing one? Or do both need to be WDS? Don't really want to by another 2 routers.

The Asus 13 is used by me, old Belkin by my brother, and I can give the Asus 10 to my father in law whose router is dead, so till now nothing has been 'wasted'.
 
Deploy Multiple TP-Link 150N Routers --- cost 1K per unit --- add 3-4 Units ... and they will shell out all the expensive Bloat Wireless units ... and use Bridge Layer ... no nat overhead and if wanna use QOS --- then obviously go NAT way
 
harmandeep said:
Deploy Multiple TP-Link 150N Routers --- cost 1K per unit --- add 3-4 Units ... and they will shell out all the expensive Bloat Wireless units ... and use Bridge Layer ... no nat overhead and if wanna use QOS --- then obviously go NAT way
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Is this the one you suggest? TPLINK-Wireless-N-150-Mbps-Router-TL-WR740N

http://www.ebay.in/itm/New-TPLINK-W...tDomain_203&hash=item27c20bc8aa#ht_9244wt_962

Also is using 'WDS Bridge' mode what you are suggesting? Does it mean that it will act as a kind of wireless repeater?
 
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