Router Recommendation for non-gaming, low tech level, relatives, please. :)

Elf_Boy

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My Brother-in-law, plus of course Sister, are looking for a new Router. Budget is $200.

Its been about a year since I bought one myself, so time to start researching again. :)

They have two laptops between them, old, slow, but they like them, laptops.

The items that need to keep working are the TV's. Generally no more than 3-4 total, hdr-4k on the living room, the guest bedroom is 1k, Garage is 1k, their bedroom not sure if its 1 or 4k. Oh they do also have a wifi-networked multifunction printer too.

Oh and 4 to 6 weeks a year, when I am visiting for the holidays or house/dog sitting (feeding dogs, fish, turtles and the duck) while they travel, it needs to keep up with my two laptops, one gaming the other more business oriented.

Thank you in advance for any ideas, thoughts, or suggestions. I doubt they need WiFi 7 (unless the prices have come down considerably since I last looked). Anything complicated, at all, will end up generating calls to me. Simple is best.
 
I would look for a lower market asus router mostly because of the free ai protect software. Plus many of them support VPN so you could set it up to let you VPN into their network to do router updates and management stuff. If you want to have access to that level of effort. Mostly though it's for the ai protect stuff. Catches some of the most known stuff.
 
Yeah. I second what Grimlakin says.. ASUS routers are easy to setup and maintain..
 
WRT54G.

Go old school

I say that. I stocked up on EdgeRouter X's when I caught them on fire sale after they were discontinued. I use those things all over the place. They aren't exactly the most user friendly routers in the world, and do not have integrated WiFi - so that isn't necessarily a recommendation.
 
Ubiquiti used to make great stuff... I've migrated away from them over the years..
 
Space_Ranger said:
Ubiquiti used to make great stuff... I've migrated away from them over the years..
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Yeah their newer stuff I'm less impressed with as well. The older stuff I have is still in service, but I know it's a matter of time before I will need to go shopping again
 
Brian_B said:
WRT54G.

Go old school

I say that. I stocked up on EdgeRouter X's when I caught them on fire sale after they were discontinued. I use those things all over the place. They aren't exactly the most user friendly routers in the world, and do not have integrated WiFi - so that isn't necessarily a recommendation.
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I had a linksys with wrt on it - was awesome.
 
Elf_Boy said:
He ended up ignoring almost everything I said, except go with Asus, and got himself the BE7200. Much over budget too.
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That's the exact one that I have and I love it. no 6ghz band but everything else and a effing truckload of ports too. For a home router.
 
I looked at the specs. I don't (other than what i bring) they have any wifi 6 much less 7 equipment. Still it will last them some time baring a new disruptive wifi technology.

Be nice if it had the 6ghz channel but those two will never know the differance.

I get to set it up for them next week. I'm thinking about using the same ssid/pw rather then deal with them having to update everything. Or should I insist on a more secure pw?
 
It will autmoatcially spin up a SSID for IOT devices if your SSIDIOT as the name. I say make it new so they get to divide stuff and move their non critical stuff to the IOT channel. But that's just me.
 
Two channels would be too complicated for them. Trust me on this.
 
Then just keep it all the same and you'll be good.
 
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