Question Recommend me a new router please ? Im way outdated.

[JPB]

Been on fiber internet "35 mbps download" which averages 4.5 MB per second actual. the past few months....and I feel I need to update/upgrade my router. At any given time, I can have up to 8 wireless items connected to it.

Id like to keep the price around $100....

PS4
Wii U "Yes I still use this" LOL
Nintendo Switch
Smart TV "Streaming 4K"
2 Tablets
Motherboard for my PC "in the near future"
3 phones

Now mind you, not all of this is connected at once...or even half of it. But I would like something to support all of this just in case I need to. Currently, I am still...using this....from 2006.

Linksys WRT54G

 

[VirtualLarry]

This one ?

I actually meant "new", but that would work in a pinch. Make sure to put FreshTomato on there. (I've not used the factory firmware, but on that particular router, it does seem fairly full-featured. It even has QoS, bandwidth monitor, and dual WAN, in the factory firmware. Tomato, of course, has those and more.)

 

[DaaQ]

Been on fiber internet "35 mbps download" which averages 4.5 MB per second actual. the past few months....and I feel I need to update/upgrade my router. At any given time, I can have up to 8 wireless items connected to it.

Id like to keep the price around $100....

PS4
Wii U "Yes I still use this" LOL
Nintendo Switch
Smart TV "Streaming 4K"
2 Tablets
Motherboard for my PC "in the near future"
3 phones

Now mind you, not all of this is connected at once...or even half of it. But I would like something to support all of this just in case I need to. Currently, I am still...using this....from 2006.

Linksys WRT54G

PSA
Just to add, when you do get new router, the Wii-U (all Nintendo devices except the Switch) will run at wireless G speeds. Some (if not most) routers will throttle everything else down to wireless G while the Wii-U is connected. The Switch is only Nintendo device that will use wireless N.
So when you do get the router set up make sure to use mixed mode for the 2.4Ghz radio.

 

[VirtualLarry]

PSA
Just to add, when you do get new router, the Wii-U (all Nintendo devices except the Switch) will run at wireless G speeds. Some (if not most) routers will throttle everything else down to wireless G while the Wii-U is connected. The Switch is only Nintendo device that will use wireless N.
So when you do get the router set up make sure to use mixed mode for the 2.4Ghz radio.

Or better yet, since he already HAS a 'G' router, set that router up as an AP, on a separate 2.4Ghz channel for 'G" devices, and cable it to his new router. Voila, the 'G' devices (on another channel) won't slow down the N/AC devices.

 

[Fallen Kell]

Or better yet, since he already HAS a 'G' router, set that router up as an AP, on a separate 2.4Ghz channel for 'G" devices, and cable it to his new router. Voila, the 'G' devices (on another channel) won't slow down the N/AC devices.

This is what I did at my parents' house. I took their old G and converted it to AP mode (it is in fact a WRT45GL). I then upgraded them to a 3200ac class router which is handling N and AC on different channels so that they do not conflict with each other.