Which Router Is Good For Long Range Wifi

[manne11]

I Currently have a NETGEAR WNR1000 router and the wireless range is not great. I'm currently looking at Netgear AC1200 and TP-LINK Archer C7 AC1750 but I'm not sure which router has the best wifi signal at around 35 ft my current router's wifi signal does extremely poorly at 35 ft. Which router would be the best choice for long range wifi usage? Feel free to suggest another router if these routers are not good enough. My budget is $100.

 

[bill001g]

No router should have issues at 35ft. If you have walls in between then what the walls are made of will have much more impact than the router itself.

Most routers transmit near the legal maximum power so there are not huge differences in the distance the signals go. Your end devices though, especially battery powered ones, many times do not. In those cases it is not the router causing the issue.

The newer routers you list can also run on the 5g band unlike your current routers. Unfortunately 5g signals are blocked more easily than 2.4g so that will not likely by itself solve your problems. Your end devices must also have radios that support 5g so they must be dual band or say they support 802.11ac.

There really is no way to be sure if a new router will help. Your router is kinda old there is a small chance that it is no longer transmitting at the same power as it did when it was new. Your problem may also just be interference from neighbors rather than signal strength. The 5g band gives you many more channels to try to select...again your end equipment needs to support 5g also.

Still either of those routers is fine if you want a good router. You may want to look at the tplink that is 1200 rather than 1750. Your end devices would need 3 antenna to take advantage. It does not hurt though to buy a router that can run more antenna it just is a feature you may not use.