I recently purchased this router to replace an aging (and failing) Linksys. So far it has been great. My one issue so far has been getting the guest network to function correctly. With my old routers it was as simple as turning it on and setting a password.
With this new router I do that and choose the 2.4 band for it to use. Once that is done it seems to kill the original 2.4 band. All of my devices that use it drop connection. It seems odd that I would have to dedicate one of my lines (there are two 5.0 bands and one 2.4) to the guest network.
Again I don't ever recall having this issue with my old routers. I don't profess to be an expert by any stretch. Just thought I would see if you g
I wanted to reach out to this community for any suggestions on a new router. I realize this is a commonly asked question and I did read through a bunch of the other posts, but still though this post would be helpful to me.
I've got a two story home (basement,main floor and upper floor) roughly 1200 sq' per floor. We have 250mb service that is run into the basement office. Currently I've got an older Linksys ea9500 running everything. It's been having issues that require constant reboots and so I've decided is time to replace it. At any given time we have around 25 or so devices connected. Lots of local and internet based streaming. Some gaming as well. I've also got a few wireless cameras.