We we're looking to upgrade our router, simply because this current router is at least 5 years old and we have a feeling it might be a bottle neck to our home network.
We keep our router on the floor below where we use WiFi, but the only thing WiFi is used for in our house is phone stuff (Surfing, YouTube, downloading apps, ellipses) so the WiFi will be good as long as it works. If you need to know the wireless devices we use are 3 galaxy s3's, a windows phone, and an inspiron laptop. At most, two of those things are using WiFi at a time.
All the cables in use are cat5e or cat 5. The cat5 cables are the ones we put in the walls, so chances are we're not upgrading those. If we aren't upgrading the cat5's then upgrading the cat5e's won't do us any good. Besides I've heard that cat6 cables aren't worth upgrading to anyway.
What I'm really concerned about is Gigabit speeds on the wired side of things. Gaming, downloading, video streaming, hosting a Minecraft server for a group of friends. So what i need is a router that has competent WiFi, Gigabit wired, and if possible a usb port (either 2.0 or 3.0) for a external harddrive NAS for music.
The cheaper the better, as long as it gets the job done, and is of good quality.
We keep our router on the floor below where we use WiFi, but the only thing WiFi is used for in our house is phone stuff (Surfing, YouTube, downloading apps, ellipses) so the WiFi will be good as long as it works. If you need to know the wireless devices we use are 3 galaxy s3's, a windows phone, and an inspiron laptop. At most, two of those things are using WiFi at a time.
All the cables in use are cat5e or cat 5. The cat5 cables are the ones we put in the walls, so chances are we're not upgrading those. If we aren't upgrading the cat5's then upgrading the cat5e's won't do us any good. Besides I've heard that cat6 cables aren't worth upgrading to anyway.
What I'm really concerned about is Gigabit speeds on the wired side of things. Gaming, downloading, video streaming, hosting a Minecraft server for a group of friends. So what i need is a router that has competent WiFi, Gigabit wired, and if possible a usb port (either 2.0 or 3.0) for a external harddrive NAS for music.
The cheaper the better, as long as it gets the job done, and is of good quality.