New wireless bridge needed.

[calmnowisthis]

Hi there. I am getting fibre internet installed soon, and am on the look out for a new wireless bridge and replacing my old trusted wrt-54g. I was thinking of getting this make. "AirStation AC1300 / N900". Do you think this will do the job? At some stage I will also be getting a new wireless router/modem which will support the new AC speeds. Thanks for you help and recommendations.

 

[NickZ]

Look at ASUS ASUS RT-AC66U

 

[NickZ]

Read about it

http://www.pcworld.com/article/262149/asus_rt_ac66u_the_best_802_11ac_router_on_the_market_so_far.html

 

[angelofsky1980]

Hi there. I am getting fibre internet installed soon, and am on the look out for a new wireless bridge and replacing my old trusted wrt-54g. I was thinking of getting this make. "AirStation AC1300 / N900". Do you think this will do the job? At some stage I will also be getting a new wireless router/modem which will support the new AC speeds. Thanks for you help and recommendations.

Very interesting question.
I've bought recently a Buffalo Airstation AC1300 device (WZR-D1800H) who is capable to generate 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz wireless networks and in the higher band support also 802.11AC draft protocol.
I've flashed the router (at full my own risk) with DD-WRT and all works properly and fast and I'm very happy for my new tech-toy

About wifi dongles 802.11AC standards it's another story: I've bought 2 Linksys AE6000 device that can support AC standard at 450Mbit/s and preliminary tests are very good.

 

[calmnowisthis]

Thanks for your replies. I will look in to your recommendations .

 

[sunespeg]

Zyxel wap 3205 is worth considering.
It has good coverage and throughout. It can function as ap, bridge or repeater.
A nice feature is the 2 port switch, so you can connect more devices, or extend existing network cabled and wireless without use of another switch.

Good value I think

Sent from HTC One S using Tapatalk 2

 

[NickZ]

I use ASUS RT-AC66U. Fast and stable WiFi connectivity with iPhone. iPad, TV and other devices. Two USB ports that can be used by 3g -modems, printers, HDD and USB flash. Several guest WANs can be easily created, working in two frequency bands alongside with the main (two-band) WAN. Cloud service from Asus as a bonus. No need for risky DD-WRT flashing because everything is already exists. Comparison with Buffalo and other similar devices can be found in the above mentioned review.

 

[angelofsky1980]

I use ASUS RT-AC66U. Fast and stable WiFi connectivity with iPhone. iPad, TV and other devices. Two USB ports that can be used by 3g -modems, printers, HDD and USB flash. Several guest WANs can be easily created, working in two frequency bands alongside with the main (two-band) WAN. Cloud service from Asus as a bonus. No need for risky DD-WRT flashing because everything is already exists. Comparison with Buffalo and other similar devices can be found in the above mentioned review.

I've flashed my Buffalo because I want to try it with DD-WRT
I'v discovered that DD-WRT has inbuilt VPN PPTP and OpenVPN server itself.

 

[NickZ]

RT-AC66U has
PPTP VPN server, Samba and FTP servers, printer server (only Windows) with LPR support, media server with
mp3, wma, wav, pcm, mp4, lpcm, ogg,
asf, avi, divx, mpeg, mpg, ts, vob, wmv, mkv, mov support,
download master (BT, NZB, HTTP, ED2K)
3 guest WAN at 2.4 and 3 guest WAN at 5 GHz
All from the box, no need for DD-WRT, as I said.

 

[newgolfer]

Netgear R6300 + 2 Usb Netgear A6200: all are running well.

 

[angelofsky1980]

RT-AC66U has
PPTP VPN server, Samba and FTP servers, printer server (only Windows) with LPR support, media server with
mp3, wma, wav, pcm, mp4, lpcm, ogg,
asf, avi, divx, mpeg, mpg, ts, vob, wmv, mkv, mov support,
download master (BT, NZB, HTTP, ED2K)
3 guest WAN at 2.4 and 3 guest WAN at 5 GHz
All from the box, no need for DD-WRT, as I said.

Thanks for your infos but I prefer to use a system like DD-WRT who is open source and can be customized and/or developed by their respective team to gain continuos support.
In the past I've got some network equipment and during time the support lacks becuase manufacturers sell new products and forbid the oldest one.

 

[NickZ]

Netgear R6300 + 2 Usb Netgear A6200: all are running well.

Netgear R6300 and Asus RT-AC66U have practically identical hardware, but R6300 has 128 MB and Asus 256 MB RAM
Aternative firmware exists for Asus called Asuswrt-Merlin, based on Asus official firmware. It gives some additional options.

 

[calmnowisthis]

Hi there, just a quick update. I have gone with the buffalo wli-h4-d1300. Thanks for your suggestions and help.