{"id":213982,"date":"2017-06-12T17:56:36","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T15:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=213982"},"modified":"2017-06-12T17:58:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T15:58:00","slug":"get-yourself-a-great-wi-fi-router-it-is-worth-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/213982-get-yourself-a-great-wi-fi-router-it-is-worth-it.html","title":{"rendered":"Get yourself a great Wi-Fi router – It is worth it"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fibre-to-the-home and fibre-to-the-business are growing rapidly in South Africa, offering connection speeds of up to 1Gbps.<\/p>\n

The high speed and low latency which a fibre connection offers make using the Internet a pleasure.<\/p>\n

However, unless you have a high-end Wi-Fi router as part of your set-up, you can lose speed from unnecessary bottlenecks.<\/p>\n

The not-so-astonishing realisation that a high-quality Wi-Fi router is a great investment hit home after I bought an Asus RT-AC5300 router on special recently.<\/p>\n

You know the router \u2013 the one that looks like it is the product of a spider mating with R2-D2.<\/p>\n

I bought the router partly because it looks\u00a0sweet, but I soon realised that its performance matches its looks.<\/p>\n

The speed which I received in rooms in my house doubled, and the performance was more consistent compared to my\u00a0old router.<\/p>\n

My\u00a0Asus RT-N12 is a \u201c300Mbps Wireless N Router\u201d, which sounds good, but it is simply not in the same league as the Asus RT-AC5300.<\/p>\n

The best way to describe the difference between the two routers, and why you should spend more for\u00a0a high-end device, is shown in the speed tests below.<\/p>\n

I have no idea whether the new router’s Tri-Band Smart Connect or its 4×4 antenna design with AiRadar universal beamforming is\u00a0to thank for the higher speeds, but the results were clear.<\/p>\n

The results of two\u00a0sets of tests I conducted are detailed below.<\/p>\n

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100Mbps fibre, using the Asus RT-N12<\/h3>\n

\"Router\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Speed with line-of-sight, a few metres away from the router<\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Speed in a nearby room, with one wall in-between, around 15 metres away from the router<\/h3>\n

\"Asus-Old-1wall\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Speed in another room, with four walls in-between, around 30 metres away from the router<\/h3>\n

\"Asus-Old-4wall\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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100Mbps fibre, using an Asus RT-AC5300<\/h3>\n

\"Asus-RT-AC5300\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Speed with line-of-sight, a few metres away from the router<\/h3>\n

\"Asus<\/a><\/p>\n

Speed in a\u00a0nearby room, with one wall in-between, around 15 metres away from the router<\/h3>\n

\"Asus<\/a><\/p>\n

Speed in another room, with four walls in-between, around 30 metres away from the router<\/h3>\n

\"Asus<\/a><\/p>\n

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Now read:\u00a0Asus RT-AC5300 alien spider router review<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With 100Mbps FTTH connections growing in South Africa, a high-end Wi-Fi router is an excellent investment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[947,35,30012],"class_list":["post-213982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wireless","tag-asus","tag-headline","tag-router"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213982"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214492,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213982\/revisions\/214492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}