AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router for £35
 

Following various threads I came up with this:

I bought a TP link Archer C5 from Argos for £59.99 -- it has a special offer: get a c5 and you get a free USB3 AC1200 wifi stick. I sold the stick on ebay for £25

I flashed the C5 to dd-wrt (factory)

I flashed the C5 to the C7 firmware and voila it reports Hardware C7 and software C7. And it performs as C7.

And this under 10 minutes

The Argos C5 and C7 are the same hardware, only different firmware. The exact model is Archer C5 v1.2 with 3 Antennas. The Archer C5 V2 is inferior.

Not much difference between C7 and the ASUS AC68U (£129 ) in real terms --- certainly not worth the extra 95 quid. I have both.

Re: AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router for £35
 

Nice.

I was almost excited about the "AC1200" USB adapter but no, it's actually AC867.

Re: AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router for £35
 

?? Model T4U v1.0 AC1200 (867+300) did I miss something? I will be posting it to the winning bidder in a couple of hours.

Re: AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router for £35
 

Yes, you missed the basics of how wireless works. There is no 867+300. It's either 867, or 300.

A 4Ghz processor that can throttle down to 1Ghz does not make it a 5Ghz processor.

Re: AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router for £35
 

No worries, I did miss your irony "AC1200 is only AC867" but I understand a "1200" stick is a marketing term to describe this type of router/stick (I am also aware that the two numbers do not add up 1200 :) )

Re: AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router for £35
 

But did you like my awesome analogy?

Nevertheless. With routers, adding up the bands is questionably tolerable because they can be used at the same time - on a USB stick that is never possible.

Re: AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router for £35
 

Cool!

yeap, also tethering with a stick with simultaneous dual band is a nono

you can tether and connect on the same band with a stick but still the maximum is 867