azazel1024
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16833106192
It is out of stock.
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If you can not wait go with this (Dual band but Not ac) - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16833106135
Take into consideration that right now the ac is over rated by Enthusiasts (normal process when something new comes out).
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Just depends on your use case and who you ask. I still haven't upgraded, so I can't personally comment, but I've talked to numerous people who moved to 867Mbps+ capable 802.11ac router using 867Mbps+ capable 802.11ac wifi adapters and see speeds easily 40-100% faster than what they were seeing with 802.11n. Doesn't sound shabby to me.
In the particular case of what I am looking at, an Intel 7260 with TP-Link C7 Archer setup, I know a fellow using that who is easily getting over 40MB/sec same room and not shabby performance a couple of rooms over. That's twice what I am personally pulling down now.
Doesn't seem over rated to me. Best of all, 802.11ac generally seems to have better range performance on 5GHz than 802.11n does, deffinitely better speed at range, but it also seems to work to slightly higher levels of attenuation too than 802.11n 5GHz does.
That's a big boon for a lot of people who MUST use 5GHz because they have too many 2.4GHz networks nearby.
40+MB/sec same room performance generally tips things on the balance of "not worth getting my network cable and plugging in to a jack for large file transfers". Still worth it for really big transfers, but a couple of Gigs, just not worth my time. Maybe a 10-20GB transfer might still be worth grabbing the patch cable and connecting over GbE instead for 114+MB/sec transfer speeds.
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