Yuriman
Diamond Member
I'm moving out, and taking my RT-N66U with me. My roommates will need a router and I volunteered to look into it for them.
I've had enough bad experiences with brands like Netgear and Linksys that I'm wary of them. Given my good experiences with Asus routers, I'm inclined to recommend them something like an RT-N10P or RT-N12/D1, for $15 and $25 respectively. I've also heard good things about TP-Link though.
Their use case: They need something that will just work. I doubt either one of them knows that a router even has settings, so I'll likely be setting it up and giving them the WiFi password, and for the rest of its life the router will sit in a cabinet somewhere, forgotten.
They have a ton of game consoles (Wii/Wii U, PS3/4, 360/One, etc.), a few small mobile devices (phones/tablets), and two desktop PCs that will more likely be connected with long ethernet cables, but they're not into torrenting/streaming, so overall traffic will be pretty low.
Suggestions?
I've had enough bad experiences with brands like Netgear and Linksys that I'm wary of them. Given my good experiences with Asus routers, I'm inclined to recommend them something like an RT-N10P or RT-N12/D1, for $15 and $25 respectively. I've also heard good things about TP-Link though.
Their use case: They need something that will just work. I doubt either one of them knows that a router even has settings, so I'll likely be setting it up and giving them the WiFi password, and for the rest of its life the router will sit in a cabinet somewhere, forgotten.
They have a ton of game consoles (Wii/Wii U, PS3/4, 360/One, etc.), a few small mobile devices (phones/tablets), and two desktop PCs that will more likely be connected with long ethernet cables, but they're not into torrenting/streaming, so overall traffic will be pretty low.
Suggestions?
