Ideal Routers Delivers
Routers are extremely functional devices, especially in this digital age when every property has a number of World wide web-enabled devices. In addition, in our two years of testing we have not identified one router that outperforms all the other people on every test: Some routers excel on some tests, some do effectively on others, and the final results for each model ordinarily vary a bit across tests.
We forced every single router to use 20MHz channels on the 2.4GHz band—your router really should use these as an alternative of 40MHz channels when it detects competing Wi-Fi networks—and we set every single router’s 5GHz network to channel 161 (or the closest we could get) to avoid interference.
As opposed to most Wi-Fi extenders, in our tests the Eero units managed handoffs perfectly: We saw the same speeds regardless of which Eero we had been closest to. In other words, our … Read More