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In 15 years my family has gone through maybe 4 routers total. The first was the original 54G linksys router, that didn't even have wifi, eventually we upgraded
by vxNsr 9y ago
In 15 years my family has gone through maybe 4 routers total. The first was the original 54G linksys router, that didn't even have wifi, eventually we upgraded to the WRT54G, and had that for at least 8 years, finally it couldn't handle all the devices so we upgraded to an N, 5GHZ, we only had to replace that one because of a faulty surge protector and a power surge. Since then we've had no issues in a fairly large 6 bedroom 3 story house.
- danieldk 9y agoSince then we've had no issues in a fairly large 6 bedroom 3 story house. It depends very much on the construction of your house and interference of other nearby APs. We have an access point with a six-element beamforming antenna array (2.4GHz and 5GHz, Airport Extreme). WiFi in a room next to the AP is still reasonably ok. But once there are two walls between the AP and a device, the signal is basically gone. We now use Powerline Ethernet and get excellent transfer rates around the house. (Of course, performance depends on the wiring, etc.)