First world probs of trying to figure out what router I need to get in order to cover the entire house with a good wifi signal. About 9k sq. ft.
Running Ethernet cable isn't an option because I can't but up and runnin **** that ain't mine. And then there are like 20 devices connected to the wifi, we have 10 Mbps down (at most) and all these thick ass walls and the router is upstairs and we can't move it to somewhere else and blah blah blah.
I also need to have restrictions on some devices and not on others and more blah blah
My ASUS n66u seems to be a better option then the new Linksys WRT-1900AC and so now I'm extra confused.
More so since port forwarding for the stupid Xboxs people have **** everything up and it directs all traffic to those and doesn't allow anything else to use the internet.
And then people don't even have any 5ghz capable divides so no point in that.
Also, some people here make me mad and I feel like I'm gonna end up blowing up soon and just be rude AF.
Anyway, more bothered by the Internet thing.
I also need to limit people on bandwidth. I can't have a little girl with a tablet take all of the Internet so she can watch YouTube videos on her tablet all day.
Have you thought about just getting repeaters or power line adapters?
I thought of power line ones, but I have yet to try them. Would also just end putting an AP on that anyway, but I'd prefer to just have 1 router. People don't like being designated to a specific wifi connection when they want to be able to walk across the house and have perfect signal strength.
I can have them just hop between the two, but that didn't work too well last time I had it set up that way. It would just keep them on the main router.
Too strong to drop them and place them on the other router, but then not strong enough to reach where the repeater does.
Also, with the repeater I have, it would just repeat the signal, but any restrictions I had per device would be ignored because if devices X, Y, and Z were connected to Repeater (R), then the traffic would be coming from R, where no restrictions were given. And so I'd have to restrict R and everything connected would be treated the same.
There is a 13 year old boy, an 8 year old boy, and a 5 year old girl. They all need different restrictions/rules so I can't go that route.
I will probably just go to the store tomorrow and give the power line adapters a go.
I've gone through enough trouble of buying the expensive item, so why not try the cheaper alternative I should have already done lol
I guess I just want a new router that allows for better QoS and bandwidth limiting ability
