My WiFi performance was suffering, and so I decided to do something about it and upgrade my router. When I say my WiFi performance was suffering, I really mean it: I live in a large high-rise apartment building and there are 100+ WiFi access points visible from my home office. All of the contentious traffic was severely curtailing my WiFi reliability. I was lucky to get 1 Mbit/second throughput. Sometimes I was lucky to stay connected even with my WiFi router in the same room. I decided it was time to go for 5 GHz, which is a WiFi band which is used less frequently and which has a tougher time traversing walls. And of course I wanted DD-WRT support. The set of features I was looking for included: Trouble-free DD-WRT support 5 GHz 802.11n Support Simultaneous dual band capability Inexpensive. Maybe even cheap. For me this means under $50. Under $35 is even better! It sounds like an easy task to bring all this together: A...
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