Hi. I have an older Asus wireless 802.11G router. It has Vodafone cable as its WAN connection. I, my wife and my son are the audience. We live in a timber framed, stucco covered, 2 storied 1930's house. Population density is average with between 2 to 5 other AP's being seen with various strengths at varying times from where I sit right now. The devices we have are :1 x iPhone, 1 x iPod, 2x Laptops, 1 x PC with a matching Asus USB WIFI NIC, a DNLA cert Television that is LAN cabled connected to one of the ports on the router. (I stream media from my laptop to it with acceptable results.) An Ipad is looming on the purchase horizon as is another laptop. All laptops and PC are running Windows 7.My wife and I both connect to work using VPN - the rest of our traffic is mainly HTTP based. My son is nearly 10 and is the main reason I am looking at upgrading. I wish to get a stronger signal to his room which it seems is possible with an 802.11 N router. It would be great to be able to attach a hard drive to the router to store media and stream from that to all/any device.I have looked at several wireless routers with costs from NZD 80 - 170 and am getting over saturated from the choices available.It looks like the 802.11 N spec while slower than the 802.11 AC spec gives a better signal distance . Is this correct?It seems that external antennae are superior to internal - Correct?I would like to have a router that is capable of acting as a media server, but that is more a want than a need just yet as the current setup while clumsy, suffices. If that option exists in a solution that is inside my budget (~NZD 150) that would be great.If anyone has a particular option they feel may match my needs I would appreciate the information. If I am incorrect regarding the coverage of the second story please educate me.If I can add more information to assist, Let me know Thanks for your time in reading this.
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