Hi all,
My mom's router is slowly biting the dust (slurping the dust?). When I bought it, life was simple. It was a Netgear WNDR3400 N600 router which cost a whopping $39. Now, life is way more complicated. When I went looking for routers, I read a lot and learned a little.
Anyways, when I look at protocols, Wifi 6 or 6E seem common, and brag about how many devices can be hooked up, but my mom's house is a dumb house (the doors, the lights, and the refrigerator are all dumb as the posts on the porch). Still, I can imagine that soon things might require Wifi 6. I see that there are routers which can only be set up using apps and without web interfaces (something I don't really like), and routers which have security software which gets sold on a rental model [1].
Does anyone have suggestions for a router which:
works well with pretty long range
allows some tweaking without needing to dive into really fine details of network protocols
can handle streaming on, say, 3 devices at once
Right now I'm leaning towards a Netgear Nighthawk AX5400, since they've been marked down to ~$180. If there is something cheaper that doesn't rely on giving personal information to the giant info-hoovers just to set them up, I'd love to hear.
Thanks for any tips or insights,
Bill
[1] I refuse to call these 'subscriptions'. They are part of the ongoing attempt to go back to feudalism by cashing rent checks for no actual production.
