r/Network • u/Detsulas • 17d ago
Text Looking for a new router
My wife and I game fairly regularly and I've recently noticed that my router from 2018 is bottlenecking us and showing its age at this point.
We live in an apartment that's about 1300 sq feet and we keep the router in the living room while our desks are in the spare room which is separated by a thick wall.
Currently our 5ghz band makes it through the wall just fine. That being said wired is not an option. There are no ethernet jacks in the walls of the spare room and we can't get the only place we can have the router setup is the living room.
As previously mentioned we need a new router, something future proof, budget wise we'd like to stay under $500.
Appreciate any recs!
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u/TwistedTrooper989 17d ago
Honestly, almost any router released in the last year or so would be a nice improvement. As it is I doubt you're receiving any firmware updates on your current router which is kind of a security nightmare. But in the past 8 years there have been really significant updates in speed as well as signal reliability.
I've used Asus routers in the past and had good experiences. I know they make several "gaming" routers that supposedly help limit latency.
I've been using TP-Link for years because they are cheap and I've had good experiences with their performance. But I also mostly use a wired connection