Reddit mentions of D-Link Wireless AC Smartbeam 1750 Mbps Home Cloud App-Enabled Dual-Band Gigabit Router (DIR-868L)

What sort of wireless problems are you having? A $150 router may not solve your problems. If you are looking for a router around the $150 dollar range you might as well get an AC router:

http://bestwirelessroutersnow.com/linksys-ea6300-ac1200-review/

http://www.amazon.com/D-Link-Smartbeam-App-Enabled-Dual-Band-DIR-868L/dp/B00C9VB318/ref=sr_1_3?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1376395283&sr=1-3&keywords=wireless+ac+router

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/TRENDnet---Wireless-Router---IEEE-802.11ac/1305940343.p?id=mp1305940343&skuId=1305940343

DOTA guy here. There are no friends in public games.

ANYWAYSSSS--

This is in your price range, and fantastic: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00C9VB318?ie=UTF8&tag=small0c-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00C9VB318

I know the look of it is a bit odd. No status lights for the individual LAN ports... but that's ok for you.

If you wanted to go bigger, this has a bit better speeds at long range, but is slightly outside your budget. It's also the router I use at home: http://www.amazon.com/NETGEAR-Nighthawk-AC1900-Gigabit-Router/dp/B00F0DD0I6/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1419565731&sr=1-1&keywords=r7000

At somewhat close range, the D-Link I listed performs the same as the R7000.

All that being said, I'd save the $50 and get the first one. If you had a ton of devices, I'd say get the R7000. You likely won't be able to tell the difference, though, with under 5 machines.... unless it's on the opposite side of the house or something.

868l $125CA

This is a great wifi router near the top of the pack for AC1750, dual core ARm processor, 128Megs Ram/128Megs Flash,ddwrt support.

OR the newer TPLINK Archer c7

IF you look here you can see ranking/reviews for these routers(top 3 AC 1750 units), including the Asus one nectarprime listed earlier:
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/rankers/router/view

Are you more worried about the modem or wireless router? Most modern modems/routers are just fine. It's the wireless radio that's terrible.

I just looked at a huge number of wireless router options, and the Archer C8 is my current pick for the money. While it's a tad slower than some of the fastest routers, it's affordable and has almost no bad reviews on either newegg or amazon. (<10% 1-2 star reviews). Every other router was more in the 20-50% 1-2 star review range. (Yes, 50%!).

Here's a list of the top performing routers from smallnetbuilder, sorted by 5ghz downlink. (I decided to use that instead of overall throughput, but it should be fairly similar).

| Model | 5ghz downlink Mbps | Newegg 1-2 | Amazon 1-2 | Amazon price | Newegg price |
|------------------------------------------------------|--------------------|-------------|-------------|--------------|--------------|
| TP-Link AC1750 / Archer C7 | 209.5 | 33% | 21% | $100 | $100 |
| Linksys EA6900 | 195.6 | n/a | 34% | $170 | $180 |
| Netgear R6250 | 184.8 | 23% | 21% | $130 | $133 |
| D-Link DIR-880L | 182.4 | 20% | 12% | $167 | $167 |
| Asus RT-AC66U | 166.7 | 31% | 20% | $151 | $151 |
| D-Link DIR-868L | 162.6 | 29% | 18% | $130 | $130 |
| Linksys EA6500 | 160.7 | 55% | 27% | $130 | $120 |
| Netgear R6300v2 | 159.4 | 48% | 21% | $140 | $140 |
| TRENDnet TEW-818DRU | 156.9 | 25% | 22% | $150 | $150 |
| TP-Link AC1750 Archer C8 | 155.6 | 13% | 13% | $115 | $115 |
| TP-Link AC1900 Archer C9 | 154.5 | 5% | 3% | $151 | $151 |
| Linksys AC1600 EA6500 | 151.4 | 55% | 27% | $130 | $120 |
| Linksys AC1200 EA6400 | 151.4 | 21% | 27% | $110 | $144 |
| Asus AC1200 RT-AC56U | 150 | 53% | 25% | $100 | $100 |
| Asus RT-N66U | 136.7 | 20% | 14% | $120 | $120 |

There's a couple of routers on Amazon which will work as access points.

I'm using the D-Link DIR-868L myself. It's around $120 SGD at current exchange rates, and if you buy more than $125 USD of stuff, you'll get free shipping.

These dual band routers have a high WAN to LAN speed (more than 900Mbps through the 1Gbps ports) and support multiple devices:

Netgear R7000
Linksys EA6900
D-Link DIR-868L

For "a multitude of devices" there are tri-band routers like the ASUS RT-AC3200 and the Netgear R8000.

"good with gaming": if you mean cable-like low latency, that does not exist. Latency can also vary depending on interference and on how crowded your area's spectrum is.

Two exist on Amazon.ca, both are far more expensive than the 49.99 I paid at Staples.

https://www.amazon.ca/D-LINK-Wireless-Gigabit-App-Enabled-DIR-868L/dp/B00D9QFTKS/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1474925858&sr=8-2&keywords=d-link+dir-868l

and

https://www.amazon.ca/D-LINK-Wireless-Gigabit-App-Enabled-DIR-868L/dp/B00C9VB318/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1474925858&sr=8-1&keywords=d-link+dir-868l

Anyone know what the difference is?