So I'm going to throw out a bunch of 'hypotheticals'.
Say, hypothetically, that I live in a gaming house of five people and we all play competitive gaming. CS:GO, LoL, WoW PvP, SC II, etc. We all suck, but we all want a nice internet connection for this Christmas.
Each of us can chip in up to $75 for a maximum of $375 available budget.
I've been doing some r3se4rch and think that a modem and router is better than a 2-in-1 M/R combo. Is this true?
What kind of gear should we be looking at?
I found some on amazon but can't choose from all the routers that look like they were built for 12-year-old e-peens.
>>51918586
I don't know anyone that uses a separate modem and router any more aside from in network oriented homelabs. Just get a decent router, check your cabling is good and realise that the bottleneck is almost certainly between you and your ISP.
>>51918586
>gaming house
lol
Why aren't you using Ethernet?
>>51919103
Kek
>>51919374
This. Nothing beats a direct connection.
Get a cheap router off amazon and a three pack of these
https://www.ubnt.com/unifi/unifi-ap/
Better yet, just buy powerline adapters, be warned though, they are can be flaky pieces of shit if your wiring isn't good.
>>51919632
>powerline
>not MoCa
Hirschmann made an awesome device that lets you use your existing coax cables as internet cables. Fastest and most reliable solution other than actual UTP cables.
>gaming house
>league of lesbians
This is a +18 site
>>51919374
We have 3 desktops hooked up Ethernet for gaming next to the modem/router. But we each have phones, Xbox ONEs and a Wii U that all need WiFi, we have about 12 wireless devices and want a good WiFi router to handle it. All of these Xbox's are in different rooms and it would be too much work to wire ethernet cords to each room.
>>51919988
Additionally, we all like to watch Netflix while we play. So Netflix runs in at least 2 rooms at all times.
We have a 150 Mbps internet connection with a 15 Mbps upstream and we are thinking about live streaming. (oh no, not another streamer in the world)
>>51918586
>>51919988
>>51920101
http://www.asus.com/us/Networking/RT-AC5300/
Get this. It has 8x8 MIMO
