Question Do I need to get wifi 6 router for my needs?

[WrongRookie]

Ok so I am planning to move my modem to the hall alongside the TP Link AC1750 router. Thing is, its not possible to drill holes to get LAN from the side where I use my desktop and the router that is connected to the desktop is Asus RT-AC53.

The distance would be around 180 cm and the hope in this is that there are no walls that block in the way so because of that advantage, the bandwidth can be largely improved hopefully giving the sweet spot of 80-100 Mbps. I of course would prefer drilling but the house owner won't allow it so I'm stuck with WAN in this case.

Now the thing here is that I am uncertain on these two routers whether they will do the job of giving the needed speeds to do decent online gaming and streaming movies and tv shows. So the question I ask is do I need to get a Wifi-6 router? If so, do I get one or two and can one router be from a different brand over the other? And lastly, how reliable is Wi-Fi 6? I know in the grand scheme of things, LAN will always be faster than WAN but in this case, I'm forced with WAN.

Any of your opinions and answers are as always helpful. Here are the two routers that I have.

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https://amzn.to/3z6IjqS

 

[bill001g]

Not sure why you have a router on the PC side. Using a router connected via a ethernet cable is really not any different than buying a USB wifi nic card. A internal wifi nic card with antenna cables you can extend above the case tends to be as good as anything else.

Your current speed limitation is likely the ac53. It only supports 433 on the 5g radio band. In addition it only has 100mbps ports so you will never get faster than that.

In general people using around a 1200 number can easily get 150mbps and even 300mbps if you are close. This of course depends a lot on the house you have it in. If you have concrete walls in between it may not even be usable.

So if you go the wifi route I would buy a internal PCIE card with at least 1200 number. You could also buy a USB device but be sure to get the kind that is designed for desktops. They normally have USB extension cables already. Those very tiny devices are meant for portable equipment and tend to be lower power.

So do you have a coax connection near the router and in your room. You could use MoCA and can get gigabit speeds with none of the latency spikes wifi has. You can also consider powerline network. The units called av1000 or av2000 can get well over 100mbps in most houses.

To answer your wifi6 question. Wifi6 is almost a scam it seems. Your average users report very little if any difference than 802.11ac (ie wifi5). There are 2 key things that make wifi6 faster. It uses 160mhz radio bands and it uses a very dense data encoding called QAM1024.

QAM1024 tends to only work very close to the router..like in the same room. It is very susceptible to errors caused by interference. The much larger problem and the cause of most people not seeing a increase is the 160mhz radio. The problem is there is no radio band that large in the 5ghz range that is not subject to all kinds of rules. Things like have to stop using the bands if weather radar is detected. Becuase of this many so called wifi6 devices only support 80mhz rather than deal with the complexity. 802.11ac also uses 80mhz bands so you are losing the key thing that makes wifi6 faster.

The new wifi6e will solve all those problem at least according to the same guys who told us wifi6 was such a great thing. There is a new radio band on 6ghz that has massive amounts of new bandwidth. There is enough for multiple people to use 160mhz bands with out stomping on each other and there is none of the strange rules to deal with. This is only about a year old so I have not seen a lot from your uneducated end users who will be the best feedback. Mostly you see paid review sites and people who like to brag how fast their network is, both are suspect in their opinions.

 

[WrongRookie]

Not sure why you have a router on the PC side. Using a router connected via an ethernet cable is really not any different than buying a USB wifi nic card. An internal wifi nic card with antenna cables you can extend above the case tends to be as good as anything else.

The reason I have a router is that I use it more than just the desktop such as the phone and game consoles as it is easier to make it behave as a repeater for those purposes.

Your current speed limitation is likely the ac53. It only supports 433 on the 5g radio band. In addition, it only has 100mbps ports so you will never get faster than that.

That's ok. I just want 80-100 Mbps at max for my needs.

So if you go the wifi route I would buy a internal PCIE card with at least 1200 number. You could also buy a USB device but be sure to get the kind that is designed for desktops. They normally have USB extension cables already. Those very tiny devices are meant for portable equipment and tend to be lower power.

Looking at those now, I'm not seeing a lot of options I have regarding PCIE cards for wifi as only TP link is the one there...but even if its good, I'm not sure if its a good idea since the graphic card is at the top and I don't know if my motherboard has another slot. Even if it does, that card could block the airflow from the Graphic card the way its placed right now...

You could also buy a USB device but be sure to get the kind that is designed for desktops. They normally have USB extension cables already. Those very tiny devices are meant for portable equipment and tend to be lower power.

How to tell which USB is ideal for Desktop PC or laptop? From TP Link's side, there's AC1300 High Gain, Mini and USB 3.0, AC1900 High Gain, AC600 Dual Band and High Gain

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I got the powerline which as you suggested is TP AV1000 because its the only highest one out there for some reason. Tried it right now and its giving mixed results. Maybe when the TP router is moved, it might be better.