Router Recommendation around 2.5k

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Looking to purchase a router under Rs. 2500

Live in a house of 1250sft. Have 4 smartphones, 2 laptops, PC, SmartTV running, and connected smartphones, laptops running most of the day. Plan to add a few more IoT devices in the near future.

Have a 50mps connection but because of the broadband wire length, the wifi router is situated on one corner of the house and to reach the other corner there is a decent amount of wall interference.

Looking for a dual-band router with minimal speed drops and decent wall penetration.

Like to know if TP-Link Archer C6 AC1200, Tenda AC10/AC8 is a good buy at this price point? or are there any other better alternatives?
Also which is a prefered version if you recommend one and never customized a router but would like to know the flexibility of the recommended router, just in case.

Also, your own experience using a router at this price point.
 
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C6 is preferred by most of us around here. Hard to say if the range would meet your requirement. It does have several options in settings to boost range. I actually had to reduce range because my phone kept on staying on C6 even though I was closer to another router in the house.
 
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@Sandy11 I am a noob at routers. Can you elaborate on the cloud linking service you were talking about and the C6 and AC1200(seems like the A6)? I don't see any difference at the specification level. Am I missing something?

Also, might in the future move to jio or airtel too, looking at the offers being provided. Since they provide their own routers, can these be used as access points for better signal strength?

Or are there any other options if I push my budget to 3k?
@Sushubh
 
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C6 does have cloud linking and works through the app.

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I suggest Tenda because it have dual core processor which makes it beeter than c6.
App integration is not confirmed for tenda as I do not have one.
 
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@Kick933 yes, the specs r superior on Tenda, also the range seems better. but heard it lacks firmware updates and also with devices with 3-year warranty, their company website doesn't even show where their service centers r. All they have is a phone number to communicate. that has me worried.

Like to know some users experience who used tenda for 6 months and over.
 
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Updates are equally sluggish on both.Tenda tends to have better updates compared to c6.
From launch,C6 have got two major updates.
Tenda gave 3 major updates.
 
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I can say of another one D-Link dir 825 priced at 2.3k ,it has all the functionalities of archer c6 . There is an added advantage of a usb port which is missing from all others in this price bracket. It can be used for nas functionalities. The other disadvantage is the lack of openwrt support for the dlink routers
 
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