Help to buy a router

Hardware Questions and Recommendations
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hello friends
Can anyone introduce me to Linksys routers with the highest Wi-Fi coverage range? Which one of the following models is more suitable?

EA7300 , MR8300 , EA7500 , WRT1900AC , WRT1200AC , EA6350 , EA6500 , EA6900 , EA8500 , EA8300 , EA6300 , EA7500 , EA8100

These models are currently available around me.
Please, in terms of the ability to install openwrt, tell me something that can be installed on it

Priority = the highest amount of antenna giving compared to the others + the ability to install openwrt

Thanks :blush:

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Use Google image search, no one's going to do the leg work for you (I sincerely hope).

Stay away from the WRT1900/1200, support for the wifi hw they use, is so so ....

Amount of antennas doesn't really say anything about the wifi performance, some vendors even add dud external antennas, to have the device look "more impressive".

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I'm very happy with the MR8300. It has a trick to install OpenWrt but it's rather simple to do.

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I also know that the number of more antennas does not mean an increase in Wi-Fi range!
But you can't get anywhere by searching on Google because the Wi-Fi router's range is completely experimental.

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Does it ring a bell ?

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Is the MR8300 really better than the EA7300? In every way, especially increasing the area covered by Wi-Fi ?

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You tell us, or do you think @badulesia's home and surroundings are identical to yours ?

You're trying to compare apples and oranges.

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Aren't you tired of not giving yours an extra though, before you post them ?

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It's a forum dude, you ask for everyone's opinion :slight_smile:

If you don't like it, don't post.

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Guess you didn't give your questions any additional though, after all :slight_smile:

Try understanding the bigger picture.

The surroundings will affect the performance of the device.
Do you live in a flat, house, tent, cave, RV, in a cardboard box under a bridge?

Do you have any neighbors, using wifi ?

Just because a device works well for one user, doesn't mean it will do the same for you.
It probably will, but there's no real guarantee.

These things will matter, more than the amount of external antennas.

Again, apples and oranges.

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If you need to ask, zero, to you, I guess.

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Have they got wifi there ?

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frollic can help on many things but yes he is tiring and arrogant.
:smirk::thinking:

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Yes, unfortunately, he is also very talkative and arrogant

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Excuse me, what is your experience with Linksys routers? Are you satisfied with your EA8500?

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Linksys EA8500 is a pretty old router, pretty good but if you find the Netgear R7800, go for it.
Both are ipq806x, but the R7800 is almost unbreakable and very capable.
What is your Download and upload capacity?

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In terms of antenna, is it strong?

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look, on my side, I also have the E8450 and there is no antenna outside and if I use R7800 without NSS build, the E8450 was more powerfull on 5ghz. Also, what do you want , what do you need?

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Considering that the area of ​​my house is about 500 meters. I'm looking for a router to put in the middle of the house and its waves reach everywhere, but none of them are more than 30 meters, in the best case, it doesn't work even with a complete parameter change!
There is no router that has an antenna range of 100-200 meters. Or at least close to these numbers?

How much range does R7800 router have?

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I don't really know, my house is pretty small, buy the gl.inet mt6000 flint2,.pretty good