Wifi adapter & router questions

[Hopeless]

Looking to replace a couple of Linksys 54gl routers that I've been using for 10+ years. Both are running tomato, one as main router the other connects by wifi to the main router with a desktop plugged into it. I haven't kept up with wifi changes since setting them up so I'm behind the times.

From reading some posts here the Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 was the most recommended wifi adapter. Is this still the case or has something better replaced it on the list?

Also it seems the Asus routers are the ones to get, with the RT-N66U being recommended the most.

The RT-N66U is a N900 but the Intel adapter is N600. The RT-N56U would match the speed of the Intel, but are there other things to the N66 that make it a better overall router or would the N56 be just as good at a slightly lower speed?

 

[JackMDS]

Between the RT-N56U and the RT-N66U it is not so much Speed.

The numbers 600 to 900 looks like big different but they deceiving marketing over blowing reality. The real functional difference is rather smallish.

However, the RT-N66U has a Good external Antennae, the N56U has inside the box "blah" so so antennae.

So if the intended space is one or two rooms, or and open architecture small to medium house, you probably will not experience much difference. Otherwise get the better transmitting device.

Hopefully after 10 years you can spend the additional $50 and get the better one.


😎

 

[Hopeless]

Thanks Jack.

Yeah, I never have liked internal antenna for routers. I actually had the N66 on my list but then found the N56. Spending the extra $50 for a better device I'm fine with, wasting the extra $50 for just marketing BS among other things I'm not ok with. Which is what brought me here to pick my fellow ATers brains.