for what purpose

To surpass metal gear

>>58457891
beamforming.

I upgraded from a dinky internal antenna router to a TP link with like 8 antennas, massive is signal improvement.

I used to get like 3.5MB/s in the bathroom, aka shit signal and now I'm getting damn near 150MB/s everywhere in the house, and 20MB/s outside in the garage 40 feet away through a steel door.

>>58457920
enjoy your brain cancer

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>>58457891
it just works

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>>58457900

To surpass? Metal gear?

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>>58457891

>>58457891
for hobby-grade internet use

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'cuz we Supreme Commander now nigga

>>58457891
ventilation

>>58457891
replication

>>58457955
Enjoy misunderstanding basic physics

>>58457920
>bathroom
>shit signal
I think I found your problem, anon.

meme forming. seriously though. why spend the money on this honking piece of shit when you can just buy an enterprise grade access point instead? this thing is so gay just looking at it makes me feel like i've got a dick in my mouth.
>red and black
>hideous shapes for aesthetics
>annoying antennas
>IT'S BIGGER SO IT MUST BE POWERFUL
perfect logic.

>>58459121
Do you know how many times I look at my router again after installing it? Zero times.

>>58459121
Can you recommend one

>>58459121
>enterprise grade access point
any recommendations? I have a 200$ linksys router and it just fucking sucks and drops connections all the time

MAXIMUM BEAMFORMING

>>58459653
>>58459121
not to mention this weird boner /g/ has for blandness for the sake of appearing 'mature'

>>58460776
Based IBM had the best aesthetics of any hardware.
Also, hardware that looks bland usually has a focus on build quality over cost cutting. Ricer "gaymen" hardware usually has a lot of corners cut to lower the price.

>>58460827
This.

Nobody would buy an inferior product if it looked like everything else on the market. In order to sell cheap hardware, companies make them look pretty, so that people with no knowledge of the hardware would think they are buying "premium" stuff.

>>58460126
NETGEAR D7000

The only router you should ever need.

>TopTip
When buying a router, don't search for reviews, search for the router name followed by "signal drop", "drops wi-fi", "drops ethernet", "unreliable", "low signal".

Then you will find the swathes of people with common problems.

>>58460126
>>58460705
Edgerouter Lite Plus Ubiquiti AP.

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>>58457970
Kane's router would be this one.

>>58460890
>>58460891
OK since I got your attention what I actually need to buy is a pcie wifi card for LAN parties

It's hard to tell what is right for this too, whether or not having antennae at the side is suitable or on a wire placed on top. I do have a preference for sticking out the back

>>58460891
>no antennas

it's SHIT

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this was posted in another thread

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>>58461224
>>no antennas
It actually has 6 antennas.

>>58457920
no baiting/trolling, what is 'beamforming'?

i'm looking to setup my own router, trying to run pfSendse on a 1u intel-based box. also need some very basic wireless for my macbook and iphone. do i need this sophisticated beamforming bullshit, or is it just a meme?

>>58461295
it came from router space!

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>not watercooling your router
Enjoy your 3rd-world-tier internet speed.

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>>58459121
Because slightly less offensive designs exist.

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>>58461326
It's part of the 802.11ac spec. If your device has 2 or more antennas, it likely has beamforming. It's not something that is done by the drivers, it's performed by the chipset.
It works in a similar way to noise cancelling microphones, reducing signal noise by comparing the signals coming from different antennas and cancelling noise across the channels.
It also allows for the antennas to boost the signal using interference patterns, effectively creating a node line in the direction of the device it is communicating with to amplify the signal.

>>58461368
>not the linksys WRT line

>>58461368
this is cool

>>58461429
I really hate how Linksys dropped the stacked design of their old routers, but is keeping the pointless aesthetics. So fake.

>>58457891
Stealth Wireless

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>>58461531
They still have an 8-port switch that can stack under the WRT routers.
I'll probably get one when I need to move away from using my old TP-Link router as a switch.

>>58461429
thats the same shitty linksys router which keeps dropping connections

>torrent videogame
>router crawls away

>>58461641
That's odd. My WRT1900ACS is performing just fine for about 15 concurrent devices.
Stock firmware too, I haven't had the chance to load OpenWRT onto it yet.

>>58461574
Why not let anything stack on top of the router?

>>58461658
top kek

>>58461662
Why would you ever put a metal filled device ON TOP of a wireless AP, literally in the middle of the beamforming antennas?

>>58461183
I'm not the same anon that posted earlier and I don't have any advice for you sorry.

>>58461687
Because the signal spreads out?

>>58457891
For when you can't decide whether you want a router or a spider.