What is the range of this router in a newer home with just drywall walls? Is there a customer support number with free 30 days or more?
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1. @ Emily D. Wollen, This device works great throughout my apartment. I live in an apartment, and I have yet to have an issue being in other rooms. I am an IT professional, and this little guy is one of two routers in my home. I apartment is on the first floor, but in the back of the building. And yet I get great service outside on the front side of my brick apartment building. It will work.
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The range is pretty good, we have no problems in our house thru drywalls. Not sure about the customer support but most likely you will not need it. This is a high quality product.
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the range is variable depending on the home. A kitchen, fireplace and utility room will lower the transmission range but it should cover a typical 1500 SQFT home well. As far as support goes I am sure Cisco gives you startup support.
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I have a two story home and it works great ..no problems anywhere in the home.
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I purchased this a few months back, and it is currently in an older home, i.e., 100 years old, and the range seems to be housewide, including 2nd floor. This is through old style plaster not drywall. It is handling video streaming at one of the furthest points, say around 40'. Hope this helps.
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I would say the range is about 10 ft or less and it does not go through walls. Mine actually acted up (main unit and remote needed re-syncing every few hours) and I ended up returning it. Otherwise, it seems to be useful if used in a small space.
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I don't know if I would necessarily draw the conclusion that the router is no good. Wireless network setup can befuddle most novice users (and can even make experienced users pull their hair out). The #1 mistake most of the reviewers on here make is that they don't upgrade the firmware as the first step. That goes for any router though. It took me about 2 days of research before deciding in this router. I just ordered it though, and it won't arrive until Wednesday, so I can't give you my feedback on it yet.
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I have somewhat the same set up as you David but I have two walls inbetween my router and BD390 as it sits about 53ft in distance in the lower living room. The w-ifi works good for us as I use the Netgear WNDR3700 model. Once in a great while as we load the HD portion of the Netflix on it will not download all "bars" but then as it begins to play it does stop to reconfigure
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Not sure how to answer your question here. I know when I mounted the router on the wall I got better results then it sitting on the desk. I pointed the arms in the direction of devices with wi fi and no problems. Does not drop like last router. I have at least 17 devices that run through it. I hope this helps.
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J GilbertI Agree with your assessment of Netgear routers. I had similar bad experiences with two Netgear routers where they both went out within two years of my purchase. In fact the last netgear router just stopped working 10 days after the year warranty expired, and Netgear would not provide any consideration. I am convinced their router products are not built to last. Also their support leaves something to be desired.Kenneth H
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I don't think there is any functional limit on range in a home because the signal is wired. The range of a wifi that is used (from AV plug to wifi router like Airport Express) would be like any other wifi router that was used directly connected to the broadband modem.
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Personally, I haven't had any problem at all. I have my router in the other room and it connects just fine. I can't really give you an answer, because I have not experienced that kind of problem. Hope you figure it out. Good luck
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When it works, it seems to have decent range. I have a 4 bedroom house. Router is upstairs in farthest room. One camera is on the other side of house in kitchen bi say when it works because it's real nice all around when it's up and running But it seems every time I leave and go remote, they go off line. I don't know if it's a temp thing or what. But it's frustrating and defeats the purpose
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yeah I have to move my work computer to the same room the router is in for my VPN to work reliably. I would say the range in our house with this router is only about 75 ft at best.
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I have a combination modern/router and this didn't make a difference for me. Works very well in my experience. I guess just make sure that area of your house had good coverage.
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The range on the TL-WR841N v9 is short. 25-30Mbps @0-30 feet. >40 feet it drops off to 1-5Mbps. I am disappointed with my replacement router due this issue. It was the price point that appealed to me but it is hit or miss when we are at the back patio.
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Thanks for your reply. Now my decision is whether or not to give up the home phone or buy another router.
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If you're familiar with Belkin entry level routers its about the same. I live in a two story house with solid concrete walls. The router is downstairs and I get good signal on the side of the upper floor above the router. On the other side of the upper floor I have to use a repeater.
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Depends on your floor material, if wood needn't, if cement I'm afraid the signal will drop to very low level and you'd best get a repeater or deployment another router.
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I did not do a lot of tests but the best I got was 175 mbps over AC and in the 225 mbps range for the N. To be fair, the router (also Asus) is about 30 feet from where the adaptor was located and the signal had to pass through 4 drywalls in a single family home. Overall, I decided that it was easier to convert my existing phone lines (ran over cat 5e cables) to network and lose the phone vs. having to deal with the wireless.
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I think that this router's range is pretty good, but 700 feet is too far for any consumer router, not to mention the ability of the client network adapter to be heard by the router. That is, not only does the client need to be able to receive the router, but the router needs to be able to receives the clients acknowledgements, etc.There are other ways to make the 700 foot range work.