Asus RT-N66U Opinions Needed

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Hey peeps,

I am about to purchase an Asus RT-N66U from Esquire as I am in need of a potent, reliable and full featured wireless access point/router. I have read reviews on the interweb that this is the king pin (next to some Netgear but not a Negear fan) and wanted to see if any of you have first hand experience with this bad boy before I drop R2k odd on it.

The router will live in my home office which is a converted garage and right next to the house. The house is a double story and I would like the router to reach everywhere. I currently use FOUR access points to provide full coverage.

If this router is not strong enough to provide full coverage, does anyone know where I can pickup high gain external antennae for it? And perhaps some good high quality dual band repeaters?

Thoughts?
 
Mike Smit said:
Hey peeps,

I am about to purchase an Asus RT-N66U from Esquire as I am in need of a potent, reliable and full featured wireless access point/router. I have read reviews on the interweb that this is the king pin (next to some Netgear but not a Negear fan) and wanted to see if any of you have first hand experience with this bad boy before I drop R2k odd on it.

The router will live in my home office which is a converted garage and right next to the house. The house is a double story and I would like the router to reach everywhere. I currently use FOUR access points to provide full coverage.

If this router is not strong enough to provide full coverage, does anyone know where I can pickup high gain external antennae for it? And perhaps some good high quality dual band repeaters?

Thoughts?
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Hi,
I got one of these after a trying out the linksys e6500 ac router. Had to return the linksys due to terrible coverage and constant dropouts even with latest firmware.
Reviews are spot-on the asus, a solid device with good range on 2.4 band. Previously I was unable to get 5 Ghz in my lounge - now I get at least 3 bars.
My house is single story so cannot comment for double story, but now at every corner of the house I'm able to get a signal unlike the linksys e4500 which I had to replace due to lightning damage.
 
Just make sure your wireless clients can reach and are capable of communicating back to the router.

(ie: my Galaxy S2 phone has terribly poor WiFi... I get zero or at best 1 bar signal when 4 walls away from my AP... whereas my laptop with an Intel 6300N wireless card manages fine, obviously due to larger antenna in the laptop and stronger transmit power of the Intel card)
 
nk1 said:
Hi,
I got one of these after a trying out the linksys e6500 ac router. Had to return the linksys due to terrible coverage and constant dropouts even with latest firmware.
Reviews are spot-on the asus, a solid device with good range on 2.4 band. Previously I was unable to get 5 Ghz in my lounge - now I get at least 3 bars.
My house is single story so cannot comment for double story, but now at every corner of the house I'm able to get a signal unlike the linksys e4500 which I had to replace due to lightning damage.
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Thanks. The push I needed. Put the order in and paid. Just awaiting delivery now.

This is going to replace my TP-Link WDR4300 in my home office. Will probably move the TP-Link inside and bridge it if the Asus does not quite reach where I need it to.

Mal1ce said:
Just make sure your wireless clients can reach and are capable of communicating back to the router.

(ie: my Galaxy S2 phone has terribly poor WiFi... I get zero or at best 1 bar signal when 4 walls away from my AP... whereas my laptop with an Intel 6300N wireless card manages fine, obviously due to larger antenna in the laptop and stronger transmit power of the Intel card)
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My S2 is the same. Also struggles a bit. The rest of my devices are all okay with my current setup. I don't want 4 access points on the property though. Painful.
They are all aging a bit now so looking to start over with top hardware and hopefully less of it.

I will setup the Asus before changing anything else (replace the TP-Link). If the coverage is not what I want I will keep the other 3 setup for now then move onto the external antenna which I will mount on the roof of my home office. If I still don't get the coverage I want then I will look at some top of the range repeaters. I don't play games via wifi (house is gigabit ethernet right through) so don't mind the overhead of repeaters too much. I did try the D-Link repeaters and one failed within a month, so the second is purely an access point in the bar now.

Should have the Asus early in the AM. Looking forward to fiddling with this bad boy tomorrow. May or may not flash one of the DD-WRT firmwares but had a bad experience on the TP-Link so not too keen to mess with my new Asus. Hopefully the software on the Asus can do what I need a firewall/router to do.
 
It will unneccesary inrease harmful radiation. I don't recommend it. Use two smaller devices and bridge then together as per initial thought.
 
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