TP-Link C3150 and C3200: Multimedia vs. Gaming Routers 

CheffBryan why?

CheffBryan How is your mobile devices connected then?

CheffBryan Funny how do you plug RJ45 to your phone?

Well, wireless is the future. Right now, unless you absolutely need every ounce of download speed (even then wireless is about 95% speed of wired) or you absolutely cannot drop signal once (even then wireless never really drops anymore) you can stay wired. But if you're set in your ways, go you.

***** LTE is fucking expensive and most likely bandwidth limited, or there are data caps Home Internet usually doesn't,

Me in Sweden: 250mbps 35 bucks

Lithuania. Theoretically my ISP delivers me speeds of 1Gbit/s for 20 EUR. Yesterday I've downloaded WoW at 28.5 Megabytes per second. Love it!

I have at best 4Mbps sometimes as low as 0,5 here in Finland

i pay 35€ for 150 mbps, and telephone

Here in Bulgaria, I pay 8 bgn (approx. $4.50) every month for 100mbps connection. Although I've only reached a max of 50mb/s upload and download on speedtests.

True. i had cable router that ping around 3-28ms ping to the router alone wired too.

Dario Cossutta ikr I was expecting that type of testing and comparison on this video 😡

so a 3200 should be good for me. My ping is now around 40 to 60 with a stock router of the provider. should be less with the 3200

it depends if could be the line to your house.. some router can be the issue or it could be the line to your house. i would recommend doing a ping test to your router in cmd then after do a cmd ping test to google if you type in ( ping www.google.com -t ) it will do it until you stop it ( Ctrl + C ) if you ping test your router ip ( ping xxx.xxx.xxx -t ) i am not 100% if that 100% accurate it is in cmd but its worth a shot. you might find that the router fine but the line can be faulty. you could try rebooting the router to see if that help if not talk to your isp. also dont use pingtest.net or speedtest. if your doing gaming and gaming is 1st try www.dslreports.com/speedtest for BufferBloat and to see if your internet is good for gaming.

Danny I done a speed test ping 12 ms it says. I don't get that in game that's for sure. And my cable is a phone cable pretty old. It goes in a splitter and then with a cat 5 to the pc. I must pull new cable's I guess. Any way thnx for the response Danny

It should be giving cancer

I did not catch that. Maybe I thought the microwave was on.

Axel Montini lol 😁

Corteth There is no point in upgrading

NoobRegular depends on your provider some give really good ones others give bad ones (if it has 2.4ghz and 5ghz it's probably good enough if not an upgrade would probably help)

RedSquirreLx buy a wifi extended

RedSquirreLx If you have a Ethernet cable near your room get a access point. Wireless extenders are crap that don't work well.

Jerr Bear I have a Netgear Router, and I **NEVER** lag, and I have 30 MBPS internet. lol

yes they are very good. No problem with them, all their routers are amazing and worth the price, compared to some of the crap netgear come up with.

Jerr Bear I hate net gear overpriced. I've had 6 all has issues switch to asus no problems.

exactly, netgear is overpriced crap. asus and tp link are really good.

I've seen a lot of bad reviews for TP-Link but I ended up getting the c3200 about 9 months ago. So far I've had no problems at all. I think a lot of the bad reviews come from people who know nothing about routers. Some how I was able to buy it on Amazon for $119 and have not seen it that low since then.

probably even more, like 200.

Rohan Abbas c5400

Ilane Tech Reviews what is the difference?

Do not waste money on 1024QAM, currently no client device supports it. While it is better to have a positive feature than to not have one, 1024QAM should never be a deciding factor. The more complex the modulation, the shorter the distance at which that modulation can be used. with 1024QAM, it is only effective within close distances and largely in the same room, thus you are essentially using it in situations where Ethernet would be better suited. The market has largely moved onto 160MHz channel width instead, which doubles the throughput without increasing the modulation complexity, thus the speed benefits of 160MHz channel width, is experienced across the full range of the router. Currently no client devices support 160MHz channel width either, but routers such as the Netgear R7800 will offer that. If you are going to spend a ton of money, then the AD7200 is a better option, as for same room communications, we will see mobile devices make use of it, and that will offer close to its full speed since it does not have to deal with interference (60GHz signals can't go through walls as well as most other solid objects).

Razor2048 so you say i should go for c3200?

Or if you have carpet. run a very long cat 5e or cat 6 cable under it and through rooms as needed depending on the size of the house and where the router/switch is. I have found a few flat cat7 cables of 100 ft lengths for less than 30 bucks on line in the recent past.

BigPaco213 Get a tri band router. Any ac 3200 router would be good, asus makes a good one. Make sure you put the router in the middle of your house.

Dan Bodine what's the name of the Asus one?

BigPaco213 Asus RT-AC3200. You can get it for sale on newegg and amazon. I have this router in my house it gives great coverage in my three story house.

Manuel Dissette Only a small amount of us. Most of us have around 50 MBPS. I have 30 MBPS.

WhiteHawk no.. I'm seriously serious.. I have never bought or used an router other than the one provided by my isp. So I don't know how it works..

WhiteHawk oh that's nice. But I don't have the space for a cabled connection so I will always use the wireless option. Does that affect my need to switch to modem option or I can also connect over the router? Because I plan to buy this one instead of receiving the router that comes bundled with unitymedia isp. Thanks for the info :)

Ancient_Ys the all in one gateway device that isp give can be used just for the modem aspect, and have having the routing and WiFi aspect turns off. I can buy ur own dedicated modem and or router if u choose..

DioOmicida same ...

what router would u recommend?

CarmelloFellow there more for consumers these videos and the average consumer doesn't have a server

Its for consumers who are tech enthusiasts. And to them, and all of the tech world, servers are pretty important especially when talking about networking hardware.

CarmelloFellow maybe 1 in 7 will but most don't at least not enough that they want to know when talking about routers

Aneesh Prasobhan you mean review a cardboard box People like seeing high end stuff and most there audience isn't in India or a place were tech is expensive

The Hunter well thats just sad