Best Wifi Router

Cowabunga

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Ceredigion,Wales
Theyre not. Always use wires direct to router, especially now were streaming 4k / hd.
4K streaming works perfectly on my wifi and also works from a plug-in mains repeater with a sender wired from the router being a D-Link and the one upstairs being a Netgear. It works with my television as well as my 5K iMac through wifi.
Nothing special about the router as far as I can tell; in fact it looks like a very cheap unit, not like the very well built, large and stylish BT ones.

Fact: 4k only requires 25mbps data stream. It just doesn’t matter whether it arrives by data cable, wifi, or extender device. Remember that 4k streaming of Netflix, for instance, will consume 7GB’s of data per hour


As an aside, I could not get the D-Link extender, which came in a kit, to work with the D-Link router unit. The Netgear unit paired with no problem at all and works very well indeed. Since I just paired them without using an app, the output now is unsecured and called 'Netgear' and has to be chosen as the desired signal on a device's [phone or iPad or Android pad in my case] wifi settings. I now have three options is some places in the house, the old slow BT, the EE 4G, or the Netgea, which just connects to the 4G system through the house mains electricity to the D-Link sender and a data cable to the nearby router.
 
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Timbo

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Gods County
4K streaming works perfectly on my wifi and also works from a plug-in mains repeater with a sender wired from the router being a D-Link and the one upstairs being a Netgear. It works with my television as well as my 5K iMac through wifi.

Nothing special about the router as far as I can tell; in fact it looks like a very cheap unit, not like the very well built, large and stylish BT ones.


You are correct of course in terms of theoretical throughput over wifi in ideal circumstances with an ideal router possibly with only a handful of clients it's connected to.

That said, "free" routers especially are built down to a price and IME are not good when they have multiple clients and often a far from ideal physical setup.
 

Cowabunga

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Location
Ceredigion,Wales
You are correct of course in terms of theoretical throughput over wifi in ideal circumstances with an ideal router possibly with only a handful of clients it's connected to.

That said, "free" routers especially are built down to a price and IME are not good when they have multiple clients and often a far from ideal physical setup.
In a sprawling building [and] with multiple users, obviously a physical data cable connection will be far superior. If that applies to any given situation then that is what is needed. In my case, which is probably representative of the vast majority of small businesses and farms and domestic houses with an office, wifi with or without repeaters work more than well.
 

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