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802.11ac Router and Bridge kit $199

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That's pretty cool, so anything connected to the bridge will get the 1300Mbps, and I assume it can double as a wireless repeater too.

I just ran another cat 6 line to my repeater. Repeating over wireless N wasn't working well at all for me, so much loss in signal, and repeating cuts the speed in half to begin with. This would resolve that issue.
 
Wyndru said:
That's pretty cool, so anything connected to the bridge will get the 1300Mbps, and I assume it can double as a wireless repeater too.

I just ran another cat 6 line to my repeater. Repeating over wireless N wasn't working well at all for me, so much loss in signal, and repeating cuts the speed in half to begin with. This would resolve that issue.
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cant be used as a repeater is what im told, kept me from buying this

gevorg said:
any good third-party firmware out there for this 802.11ac router?
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there is dd-wrt for the router havent seen anything for the bridge
 
Nice, wish this would have been out before I bought my pair of Asus's to do the same thing.

D.SKiLL said:
why do you need both?
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To do stuff like this: http://www.home-network-help.com/wireless-bridge.html I have an old house and don't want to run cable through the plaster and lathe walls from one floor to another. I got a pair of AC routers, one downstairs at the modem that I have a NAS, PS3, and Tivo plugged into. It also handles wireless for the rest of the house - phone, roaming laptop, etc. I got a 2nd identical router to keep upstairs, that I wired my desktop into, as well as a USB printer (old one without ethernet). Set the routers up to talk to each other (the one upstairs is in bridge mode) and as far as the desktop upstairs are concerned, it's like I actually ran a cable to the router downstairs. Speed is not as good as an actual cable but much, much better than any other option I know of right now such bridging an older N router or plugging in an AC rated USB antenna and hoping for the best.

gevorg said:
any good third-party firmware out there for this 802.11ac router?
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I'm happy with the "Merlin's Build" for my Asus's, not sure if he does anything for Buffalo. DD-WRT or Tomato might too of course.
 
tracerbullet said:
Nice, wish this would have been out before I bought my pair of Asus's to do the same thing.



To do stuff like this: http://www.home-network-help.com/wireless-bridge.html I have an old house and don't want to run cable through the plaster and lathe walls from one floor to another. I got a pair of AC routers, one downstairs at the modem that I have a NAS, PS3, and Tivo plugged into. It also handles wireless for the rest of the house - phone, roaming laptop, etc. I got a 2nd identical router to keep upstairs, that I wired my desktop into, as well as a USB printer (old one without ethernet). Set the routers up to talk to each other (the one upstairs is in bridge mode) and as far as the desktop upstairs are concerned, it's like I actually ran a cable to the router downstairs. Speed is not as good as an actual cable but much, much better than any other option I know of right now such bridging an older N router or plugging in an AC rated USB antenna and hoping for the best.



I'm happy with the "Merlin's Build" for my Asus's, not sure if he does anything for Buffalo. DD-WRT or Tomato might too of course.
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I use 500mbps powerline adapters to connect downstairs and upstairs router, works great
 
felang said:
I use 500mbps powerline adapters to connect downstairs and upstairs router, works great
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I do too, although I had a lot of intermittent trouble on my first attempt. I had to play around with different outlets until I found one that is stable, and its been rock solid since.
 
D.SKiLL said:
why do you need both?
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There is no real USB wireless adapter for AC yet. ASUS released a PCIe wireless adapter. I think Netgear has one, but only utilizes USB2.0 which doesn't truly take advantage of the AC speeds.

So the only option is to pick up two AC routers and have one in bridge mode. I believe if you run it in bridge mode, your bridge router will only output half the speed. Don't quote me on that.
 
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