Alright guys
I have a couple of Asus RT-N66U routers that I've been using for home wifi for the last 8 years, I unit as a router and the other as an access point.
The house is 250 sq metres (2690 sq foot) downstairs and 150 sq meters (1610 sq foot) upstairs. We have 4 wired PCs, 4 wifi laptops and various mobile phones. At any one time there could be 10 users in the house.
Everyone moans about how crap the wifi is so muggins here has to sort it out!
My plan is to use Ubiquiti Access points spread out around the house (probably 3 or 4) linked via ethernet to one of the Asus routers.
My main question is can I get by with one of the old Asus machines as a router or should I be using something more up to date ? The Asus routers have 4 x Gigabit Ethernet and I don't plan to use them in wifi mode.
Are they up to the task? In the current configuration about once a month, I have to reboot them as we lose wifi.
Going forwards I don't want to have to keep rebooting the router.
Thanks in advance, Andrew
I have a couple of Asus RT-N66U routers that I've been using for home wifi for the last 8 years, I unit as a router and the other as an access point.
The house is 250 sq metres (2690 sq foot) downstairs and 150 sq meters (1610 sq foot) upstairs. We have 4 wired PCs, 4 wifi laptops and various mobile phones. At any one time there could be 10 users in the house.
Everyone moans about how crap the wifi is so muggins here has to sort it out!
My plan is to use Ubiquiti Access points spread out around the house (probably 3 or 4) linked via ethernet to one of the Asus routers.
My main question is can I get by with one of the old Asus machines as a router or should I be using something more up to date ? The Asus routers have 4 x Gigabit Ethernet and I don't plan to use them in wifi mode.
Are they up to the task? In the current configuration about once a month, I have to reboot them as we lose wifi.
Going forwards I don't want to have to keep rebooting the router.
Thanks in advance, Andrew