Best router for Home Theater?

[spas2k]

What is the latest and greatest router for home theater right now? I currently rip blu rays and stream via wired Ethernet, but I want the "spread the love" with a good router that can prioritize streaming video and do it effectively with the fewest hiccups. Would also like some opinions on good access points to pair this with.

Thanks!

 

[smitbret]

What is the latest and greatest router for home theater right now? I currently rip blu rays and stream via wired Ethernet, but I want the "spread the love" with a good router that can prioritize streaming video and do it effectively with the fewest hiccups. Would also like some opinions on good access points to pair this with.

Thanks!

I don't know if you are talking about streaming the BD rips wirelessly, but that is usually a recipe for frustration. Wires whenever possible.

Also, it would be useful to know what wireless standard you are using at the individual clients. Is it N150, N300, AC, etc.?

 

[bill001g]

If you mean on wired within your house you likely will have no issues no matter what router you choose. In many routers there is a separate switch chip so the traffic does not go though your "router" anyway. Even if you wanted to you can not use prioritization on the lan. You would need a commercial switch to do that.

Still you should never need prioritization. You only need to decide which is more important traffic when there is not enough capacity to send it. This would imply that you could exceed the capacity of gig ports. You could I suppose use a commercial switch and prioritize traffic but once you start down the commercial switch path you are much better off with port aggregation or 10g ports to solve the problem of a 1g port not being large enough.

Now if you mean wireless....then lol. You might be able to control the router and let it select what to transmit first but you have no control over the end stations and even worse your neighbors transmitting over the top of you and destroying your data.