Ask HN: Best Wireless Router for a Hacker Home?

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Long time lurker. I need to buy a new wireless router for my new apartment.

We have Meraki's at my office and they are pretty awesome. But, to my knowledge, they don't have one at a low enough price to make it worth it for home use.

Is there a cool wireless router for home use that I should know about?

Thanks!

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I've been using the Buffalo HighPower N600 Gigabit Dual Band with DD-WRT, but with 802.11ac on the horizon you'll want to assess whether you want to buy an 802.11n device or a draft 802.11ac device.

Two thing to watch out for when you buy consumer grade 802.11n routers:

- what frequency bands they support (stay away from anything that's 2.4GHz-only; you want dual-band 2.4GHz + 5GHz)

- the speed of the wired switching framework (should be Gigabit ethernet; if your router only switches at 100 mbps then you won't get the full performance out of the wireless network)

Thanks!

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