Linksys E Series

Linksys has just epic routers. I still have my old 9 year old WRT54G2 running DD-WRT. Hasn't had a single hiccup. They're not the best when it comes to range. But they're good enough for anything.

I'd recommend getting an AC router since it's basically 1Gb Wi-Fi and all new devices (Like the HTC One) are coming out with wireless AC antennas. It's better to have something that's future proof.

The E6500 is an awesome router for a few reasons.
- Gigabit LAN
- AC Wi-Fi compatibility
- Dual band (Meaning awesome range)
- 2x USB connections (Meaning you can put 2 x 3TB external drives and have a small file server)
- Just looks amazing, unlike other brands (Such as Tenda, TP-Link etc.)
- Has their new very easy way of setting up your internet configuration on it.

If I were you, I'd save up and buy the EA6500. It may be expensive, but they just last forever and ever. I spent $60 on mine and it's still running like a champ!
Get something once and get something decent. That's what I always think of things.

i bought from a week ago EA6500 because i have about 20 devices connected to the router and caused the old routers wireless device to be very slow and sometimes stop. So i thought maybe buy the most expensive and with allot of features would solve my problems, but i can say i was wrong. It is full of bugs, for example the bug that caused me to finally return the device is having its ping change from 1 to 10 ms only from the PC to the router and some times even with higher pings.

C:\Users\BIG PC>ping 10.90.3.2 -n 10
Pinging 10.90.3.2 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 10.90.3.2: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64
Reply from 10.90.3.2: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 10.90.3.2: bytes=32 time=9ms TTL=64
Reply from 10.90.3.2: bytes=32 time=8ms TTL=64
Reply from 10.90.3.2: bytes=32 time=7ms TTL=64
Reply from 10.90.3.2: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64
Reply from 10.90.3.2: bytes=32 time=6ms TTL=64
Reply from 10.90.3.2: bytes=32 time=6ms TTL=64
Reply from 10.90.3.2: bytes=32 time=6ms TTL=64
Reply from 10.90.3.2: bytes=32 time=6ms TTL=64

And it even causes more delay from the router to the modem

C:\Users\BIG PC>ping 192.168.1.254 -n 10
Pinging 192.168.1.254 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.1.254: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=63
Reply from 192.168.1.254: bytes=32 time=11ms TTL=63
Reply from 192.168.1.254: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=63
Reply from 192.168.1.254: bytes=32 time=6ms TTL=63
Reply from 192.168.1.254: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=63
Reply from 192.168.1.254: bytes=32 time=5ms TTL=63
Reply from 192.168.1.254: bytes=32 time=14ms TTL=63
Reply from 192.168.1.254: bytes=32 time=13ms TTL=63
Reply from 192.168.1.254: bytes=32 time=12ms TTL=63
Reply from 192.168.1.254: bytes=32 time=11ms TTL=63

I tried everything to fix the problem example: I have disabled everything on my pc and tried ping the router from different PCs and the result is the same, tried it in bridge mode, pppoe mode, only connected to the pc,from a wireless device, hard reset, and new firmware all have the same results.

My two old routers one a Linksys and the other aztech they both had constant ping of <1ms to the modem
The new cloud setup page of the router is full of bugs you can t revert back to the classic firmware on the EA6500 only on the lower series and to know more about the device you can check its support page that is filled with bugs related to Linksys new cloud based firmware.
http://community.linksys.com/t5/Wireless-Routers/bd-p/Wireless_Routers

I tried to find the Netgear R6300 or Asus RT-AC66U that got better results in reviews but could not find them where i searched so i bought the Linksys EA6500.
There are more problems i encountered but i think this is enough :P

I don't recommend it , for professional use it is very slow !
try Asus or Netgear