Anyone got an AC wireless network?

[Amp34]

I'm in a rented house and the power lines just aren't cutting it (5MB/s throughput) so I'm thinking about wireless AC. What systems do people have set up and what results do you get?

I have a Synology Nas set up upstairs, along with a desktop (in a different room), both about 10-15 ft from the router point downstairs. I've also got various laptops and phones. We edit on the Desktop and Laptops, with working photos stored locally and everything then shifted to the NAS when finished.

At the moment I'm thinking of getting a D-Link Wireless AC1900 and pairing it with a Asus PCE-AC68 Network card on the desktop. Reviews suggest this will give real world throughput of 50-90MB/s.

I'm struggling on what to connect to the NAS however. It's supposed to be picky with USB dongles and I understand they aren't particularly fast. Another option I'm considering is a range extender, connecting that to the NAS via ethernet and pairing it with the AC1900. I have no idea what one though and whether it would work like that...

 

[JohnX]

Re your power-line adapters, I found with mine when I first set them up that they were affected (at the router end) by mains borne 'noise' from other electrical equipment in the immediate vicinity of the router/power-line adapter. I eventually established that the main culprit was a battery charger. Moved it to other sockets in the house, power-line speed shot up.

Worth unplugging everything you can close to the router and see what happens.

Given the short distance between your computers, etc, I'd look at running a cat5 or 6 cable and using a Ethernet switch.

 

[Amp34]

Unfortunately the router is under the TV, with a computer next to it, all from the same socket. I do however get the same speed between upstairs computer and NAS when the router power line is disconnected. Both of those have their own sockets with nothing nearby. I think the wiring in the house is just really bad, more specifically between where the NAS has to go. I spent days trying to make it faster when I first installed them!

Distance is line of sight, the cable would have to go 20m+ from router to NAS, through the hall, past the front door and up the stairs, through at least two doors, much of which is wood floor, so I can't even hide it under that. I have been thinking about that though, just making it not look like an unsightly mess will be interesting. I'd put the switch next to the router and then trail another 5m+ ethernet cable from that through two doors to the computer.

The annoying bit is if it wasn't a rental I'd just need to drill three small holes and trail a short cable through the ceiling/upstairs floor space... Well, I'd actually channel out the walls and put a proper network into each room but...

 

[Neilc28]

I've not seen any major differences between N and AC, the same limitations with signal strength will apply and real performance differences are only seen with a clean signal zone and in close proximity. The second iteration of AC should be different as it encompasses beamflex but would require all devices to be second-gen ready. I'm of the opinion that a cable cannot be beaten

 

[Digisatman]

why not move the Nas & just plug it into the router,

 

[onomatopoeia]

I'm of the opinion that a cable cannot be beaten

As am I, when it's the right sort of cable. A length of cat5e or cat6 solves all wireless networking problems for fixed devices.