Suggest wired/wireless router with gigabit lan/wan

[occasional_gamer]

I need a gigabit router so that i can share files/movies etc at high speeds between my PCs at my home using LAN.

I already have a cheap tplink wireless router (wan/lan speed 100 mbps). So a wired router (that doesnt have wifi) would be fine. I can just connect the old wireless router to the new wired router.

The router must have gigabit lan/wan ports and should have a true or at least very colse to gigibit speed and i dont care much about the wirless performance (if it is a wireless router).

Is there any budget/cheap gigabit router under 10K in BD?

I have these in mind: microtik-rb750gr3 (wired), tplink archer c7 (wireless, has 802.11ac)

thnx in advance.


I have visited these places:

https://www.smallnetbuilder.com/lanwan/lanwan-reviews/33140-microtik-rb750gr3-hex-router-reviewed?showall=&start=1
https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-wi-fi-router/#budget-pick-netgear-r6700
https://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wireless/wireless-reviews/32498-tp-link-archer-c7-v2-reviewed
https://www.digitalcitizen.life/review-tp-link-archer-c1200?page=1
https://www.startech.com.bd/Mikrotik-RB750Gr2-Router
https://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wireless/wireless-reviews/32211-d-link-dir-860l-wireless-ac1200-dual-band-gigabit-cloud-router-reviewed?showall=&start=1

[NahyaN]

Do you happen to have an old small form factor spare pc lying around?
If so, you could go try installing pfSense on it and make it do all your routing tasks.

Buy one of these and hook it up in your pc. User the motherboard lan port for WAN and the extra port for LAN.
Connect LAN to the WAN of your router, set it up as a bridge. You'll have wireless access as well as four more ports to use as a switch.

I know I actually didn't answer your question, but you could look into this if you feel like tinkering.
Heck, I'm sure you could run virtual box on your work pc and virtualize running pfSense.

pfSense

[occasional_gamer]

Do you happen to have an old small form factor spare pc lying around?
If so, you could go try installing pfSense on it and make it do all your routing tasks.

Buy one of these and hook it up in your pc. User the motherboard lan port for WAN and the extra port for LAN.
Connect LAN to the WAN of your router, set it up as a bridge. You'll have wireless access as well as four more ports to use as a switch.

I know I actually didn't answer your question, but you could look into this if you feel like tinkering.
Heck, I'm sure you could run virtual box on your work pc and virtualize running pfSense.

pfSense

Wow. Never thought about it that way. I guess the biggest downside would be, lan & WiFi would be dead when I shutdown my PC.

[aayman]

I use this: https://www.asus.com/bd/Networking/RTN18U/

I believe it cost me around Tk8000 over a year ago.

[occasional_gamer]

I use this: https://www.asus.com/bd/Networking/RTN18U/

I believe it cost me around Tk8000 over a year ago.

How is the real world lan transfer speed? Is it close to gigabit speed? Many routers advertise gigabit ports but in reality doesn even come close to that. Also how many yrs warranty?

[aayman]

How is the real world lan transfer speed? Is it close to gigabit speed? Many routers advertise gigabit ports but in reality doesn even come close to that. Also how many yrs warranty?

I have seen up to 800M download speeds using IDM (WAN to LAN) but never transferred anything locally. I'm assuming it will be at least that. Not sure about warranty, but it should be for a year.

One thing, if you enable Guest Network, throughput decreases to ~300M. The Turbo NAT function of the router is disabled when Guest Network is enabled.

[VANGUARD]

How is the real world lan transfer speed? Is it close to gigabit speed? Many routers advertise gigabit ports but in reality doesn even come close to that. Also how many yrs warranty?

Real world transfer speed do touch 1Gbps if your backbone is gigabit. I personally using a gigabit setup for myself but searching for a 10G router. Planning to switch to a 10G backbone.

[occasional_gamer]

I have seen up to 800M download speeds using IDM (WAN to LAN) but never transferred anything locally. I'm assuming it will be at least that. Not sure about warranty, but it should be for a year.

One thing, if you enable Guest Network, throughput decreases to ~300M. The Turbo NAT function of the router is disabled when Guest Network is enabled.

I think I should spend a little bit more and get a dual band ac router. Microtik is out for me as it's RouterOS is hard to configure.

It seems the new budget king is r6700:
https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-wi-fi-router/

It has better hardware spec and software features than C7 but has terrible reviews on Amazon (doesn't last long).

So, guess back to C7 again.

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Also, is it worth flashing the router with something like openwrt? Or is better to leave the native OS alone?

[Ahnaf_i7X]

Also, is it worth flashing the router with something like openwrt? Or is better to leave the native OS alone?

As for any kind of flashing, the same advice goes: if u completely know what ur doing, go for it else leave it as it is.

[occasional_gamer]

Bought the C7. I got the v4.0

It was about 10k.

Tested Lan speed. From 850 evo ssd to WD Blue (1tb) via cat5 cable through the router.

Got about 117 MBps = 936 mbps.

May be if it was ssd to ssd i would get upto 128 MBps.



Yes it is a true gigabit router.

(havent yet tested other features)