I was pretty excited to get this router, but now that I have it, I find it performing far worse than my 7 year old wrt-54gl... range is worse, signal strength is worse at same distances, internet speed seems to be slightly worse (i'm guessing due to signal strength issue)... PS3 is on the same floor a few rooms away and signal strength dropped about 20% compared to the linksys. my phone (on both 2.4 and 5gh) gets a huge drop- used to get about 75-100%, and now gets about 25-40%. When I'm upstairs I used to get a poor signal on my phone, about 0-25% strength, now it's completely out of range.
I experimented with using different channels/auto, throughput levels, 2.4 vs 5ghz... I'm not really seeing anything that is dropping my disappointment level. I had already planned to put the old linksys running dd-wrt into repeater mode uptsairs, so I didn't expect it to solve all my range problems, but I DID expect that for a router with wilress n, just released, and 180 bucks, I would see at least SOME bump in performance... I don't think I can be ok with paying that much even to have the exact same performance, let alone a significant drop... I know I'm paying for early adoption of ac as part of that price which is understandable, but not sure I'm willing to make the tradeoff for a decline in using the all the rest of my devices... not sure what gives here. Has anyone else has had a good experience with this router outside of sitting directly in front of it?