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/AdditionalBelt9719 17d ago

IMO, Ubiquity is garbage budget gear...works marginally ok and is relatively cheap. There are much better choices.

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u/366df 16d ago

I don't think Ubiquiti is that cheap. And I don't think it's right to call it garbage either. Compared to the routers people usually buy (just look at the most popular ones at your local electronics store), it has a lot of bells and whistles.

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u/AdditionalBelt9719 16d ago

Ubiquity is pretty much the cheapest brand name you can buy...even among the no-name brands. They don't perform great at low density (1-5 users), they fail horribly in high density (20+ users)...The only thing they really have going for them is price and longevity. Eero or TPlink is a far better option for the same'ish money. If you want the best, use Meraki or Aruba

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u/366df 16d ago

we're talking about a persons home here, not a business setup. as for meraki and aruba, you're paying for the ecosysystem and support, not just the hardware. also, your claim is categorically not true. the cheapest unifi router is like 100$, you can get tplink, asus, huawei and bunch of lesser known manufacturers devices for half of that.