I love my Apple routers, however I would recommend the ASUS AC wireless routers on Amazon, the higher price ASUS routers pack a lot of antennas which means better coverage in your home. These also have the new AC wireless standard, and while you may not have AC hardware in your devices, the connections to your devices should be amazing.
Sent from my iPhone > On May 26, 2016, at 9:32 PM, Lee Larson <leelar...@me.com> wrote: > >> On 05/26/2016 07:53 PM, Pen Helm wrote: >> >> We are looking for a wireless router... what kind should we get? > > I've got a perfectly good Apple Airport Extreme N that I'll cheaply part > with. The Airport Extreme routers are pretty solid routers, although > they lack a lot of the features you'll find in competitors. But, they're > brain-dead easy to set up and have some advantages, if you're using them > with Apple equipment. > > On the other hand, if you want the newer AC networking and features like > QoS, AirPrint and dynamic DNS, there are many better boxes than the > Airport Extreme. > > I have a Netgear Nighthawk R8000, but kind of wish I had the Synology > RT1900ac. Both are overkill for most people, but those of us with > terminal gadget lust can waste countless hours staring at the blinkie > lights and tweaking the myriad of settings. > > I'd steer clear of the Linksys AC routers. I bought a WRT1900ACS from > Best Buy, and it crashed all the time. I returned it for another. The > second had the same problem, so I gave up on it. Others are complaining > about this on numerous Web forums. > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > Posting address: MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu > Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/macgroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu/> > Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/> _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list Posting address: MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/macgroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu/> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
