Deciding on the best router to pick, as well as the best modem

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Hope I'm posting this in the right place but here we go. So for a couple of days now I've been looking for routers, I have set my eyes on a couple but am not sure as to which one I should get. Here are some routers that I have considered (Gonna spend about 300 on both the router and modem, can go a little over, also would like to add that I am a gamer incase that sways a decision)


You can also suggest some other ones that I did not list either. One other thing as well is that I need a modem that works with AT&T, so I'm not sure where to start as far as that goes, if possible as well I would want one that had a cable line on it.
 
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Definitely the point of the article is that high price and huge specs on paper don't mean a hill of beans in the real world.

I would probably go with the Nightwawk or the Asus AC68U. I have been very happy with Asus routers.
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AT&T should post a list of approved modems for your tier of service. Choose from that list.
Before spending top $$$ on a router you might want to read this article -- www.smallnetbuilder.com/wireless/wireless-features/32896-will-a-new-ac-router-bring-you-wifi-joy

The sweet spot for price/performance is the AC1900 tier of products.
 
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So I read it, and what I get from it is that just because it has a higher price tag and it sounds cooler doesn't mean it is always the best, so in the thing as well they used the nighthawk 7000 as a base, and at the end they recommended the TP-LINK Archer C3200. So out of those two, assuming money isn't an issue/problem, which one should I pick?
 
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Definitely the point of the article is that high price and huge specs on paper don't mean a hill of beans in the real world.

I would probably go with the Nightwawk or the Asus AC68U. I have been very happy with Asus routers.
 
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Ok, thanks, any reason why you choose the Nighthawk over the TP-LINK except for what you showed me with that article? Just seems really nice with the triple band wifi, as well as the increased speed?
 
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Triband is mostly a marketing tools to get people to buy more router than they really need. You have to really look at what your needs are.

A single device will only be able to use a single radio so it can never use the combined speed. To use if effectively you would have to somehow manage your devices to allocate them to the radios.

The largest issue with these routers is they use almost all the available bandwidth both on the 2.4g band and the 5g band. The only way this work is if you have no neighbors trying to use wireless and if one of your neighbors is using one of these routers then you both stomp all over each other.

Also many of the end devices do not support many of the features....like more than 2 antenna or the so called 200m encoding on the 2.4g bands.

Do not get sucked in by big numbers. Likely the optimum router will be one that can run 300m on 2.4g and 900m on the 5g using 802.11ac. these are called 1200m many times. This is mostly because this is all your end devices likely support so if you buy a better router it will just slow itself down to match the end device.
 
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