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<blockquote data-quote="Lenny_Fox" data-source="post: 946672" data-attributes="member: 82776">[USER=71335]@SumTingWong[/USER]Regardless for what kind of router you are buying, think about which devices you are putting on which frequency band. As far as I understood correctly, interferention from neighbours and slower devices reduce the overall throughput on a frequency, so as a rule of thumb1. Group slower and risky IOT-devicesI have all our mobile phones on the 2.4 frequency and the IOT devices on the guest network of the 2.4 frequency with a short lease time. Guest networks are partitioned by default (meaning they can&#039;t access other devices in the same network).2. Search for frequencies with the lowest interferanceIn some countries some of the 5GHz network frequencies were used for other purposes. In the NL this means that your ISP does not allow to select these channeks on the ISP-provided router. Buying your own router gives you the option to use such a hard to get frequency channel and enjoy the benefits of less interference with your neighbor&#039;s routers.3. When you are not CN paranoidHave a look at TP-link routers. They often have models with higher throughputs than competing products and most have Home Care which is powered by Trend-Micro (also identifies IOT devices with unpatched vulnabilities).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lenny_Fox, post: 946672, member: 82776"] [USER=71335]@SumTingWong[/USER] Regardless for what kind of router you are buying, think about which devices you are putting on which frequency band. As far as I understood correctly, interferention from neighbours and slower devices reduce the overall throughput on a frequency, so as a rule of thumb 1. Group slower and risky IOT-devices I have all our mobile phones on the 2.4 frequency and the IOT devices on the guest network of the 2.4 frequency with a short lease time. Guest networks are partitioned by default (meaning they can't access other devices in the same network). 2. Search for frequencies with the lowest interferance In some countries some of the 5GHz network frequencies were used for other purposes. In the NL this means that your ISP does not allow to select these channeks on the ISP-provided router. Buying your own router gives you the option to use such a hard to get frequency channel and enjoy the benefits of less interference with your neighbor's routers. 3. When you are not CN paranoid Have a look at TP-link routers. They often have models with higher throughputs than competing products and most have Home Care which is powered by Trend-Micro (also identifies IOT devices with unpatched vulnabilities). [/QUOTE]

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