I have a fairly high spec windows 7 server which is on 24/7 and is used for both game servers (space engineers, minecraft ect) A mud (multi user dungeon precursor to games like EQ) which has run in one form or another since 98.
Based around Windows 7 professional, 16gb ram, i7 4790k, roughly 12 TB in storage drives.
Now I am getting tired of buying routers and having them in some cases literally melt (we have been told that due to our online life and the way we use the net our demands on a consumer grade router is more than most can handle) 2 gaming pc's 3 servers, Xbox one, Ps4, Ps3, 10 mobile platforms (phones/tablets) Multiple TB transfers between systems daily and 18+ hours a day of heavy use.
Most of the current crop look like and act like they are more about style than substance, I mean both the nighthawk and new asus routers lead on a marketing campaign based around there looks.
So my idea is thus and if anyone has experience of it please chime in.
Hardware
4 port RJ45 Gigabit card like the startech
Ac 1900 wireless adapter
Those together will run me about £230 which may sound a lot but if I can configure my Windows 7 server (it has good quality firewall and virus protection) it should be able to act as one hell of a router.
First test (without buying anything using my old windows 7 laptop and its internal wireless adapter) By simply plugging my fibre modem into the laptop sharing connection and configuring the wireless adapter as a secure access point looks promising, as in the signal strength from my laptop was better and reached further to allow my wife to connect via her phone from the furthest point in our property and that was compared to an Asus RT AC87U £200 triband router signal.
Will post updates as to how successful this is, my plan is replace our router completely by the time we move house and use the server as a secure station.
Based around Windows 7 professional, 16gb ram, i7 4790k, roughly 12 TB in storage drives.
Now I am getting tired of buying routers and having them in some cases literally melt (we have been told that due to our online life and the way we use the net our demands on a consumer grade router is more than most can handle) 2 gaming pc's 3 servers, Xbox one, Ps4, Ps3, 10 mobile platforms (phones/tablets) Multiple TB transfers between systems daily and 18+ hours a day of heavy use.
Most of the current crop look like and act like they are more about style than substance, I mean both the nighthawk and new asus routers lead on a marketing campaign based around there looks.
So my idea is thus and if anyone has experience of it please chime in.
Hardware
4 port RJ45 Gigabit card like the startech
Ac 1900 wireless adapter
Those together will run me about £230 which may sound a lot but if I can configure my Windows 7 server (it has good quality firewall and virus protection) it should be able to act as one hell of a router.
First test (without buying anything using my old windows 7 laptop and its internal wireless adapter) By simply plugging my fibre modem into the laptop sharing connection and configuring the wireless adapter as a secure access point looks promising, as in the signal strength from my laptop was better and reached further to allow my wife to connect via her phone from the furthest point in our property and that was compared to an Asus RT AC87U £200 triband router signal.
Will post updates as to how successful this is, my plan is replace our router completely by the time we move house and use the server as a secure station.