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which router
I can get a r7000 for 179.00 or a r8000 for 199.00 which would buy?
The right router for you depends on what you will be doing with it. Web surfing, gaming, VPN, open ports for apps, how many clients and what bands?
The R7000 is good for most people.
The R7800 has a much faster processor and would be better for gaming and opening ports. But it is not as mature and you would incur greater risk of having issues with it.
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The R7000 is more mature and less likely to have problems.
But the R8000 has two 5GHz radios and can handle more 5GHz clients without them saturating the 5GHz bands.
How many 5GHz clients are you likely to have in the next 4 or 5 years?
Is the r7800 X4S a good router at 198.99 all three of these router are on sale at walmart.
My internet speed is 72.3mb wired to computer and between 24 to 54 mb on the 2.4ghz to the wifi printer and 33 mb on the 5ghz band from a wndr3400v1 n600 router .
The router is starting act up every few days and since it is a EOL prouduct time to upgrade may keep as back router also nice to have spear if you need it.
The right router for you depends on what you will be doing with it. Web surfing, gaming, VPN, open ports for apps, how many clients and what bands?
The R7000 is good for most people.
The R7800 has a much faster processor and would be better for gaming and opening ports. But it is not as mature and you would incur greater risk of having issues with it.