Looking to buy a new router, have a large house with three gaming PC's, one room is 30-40m away from the router but has a underground hardwired connection to right next to the nbn box.
Looking for a decent router for FTTP and came across this deal
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08FWNNWTB/ref=ewc_pr_img_…
Would it being built for the US market affect its performance in Aus? Would be using a travel adapter from the local Jaycar.
It entirely depends on if the power supply unit supports 240V.
The Amazon listing suggests it does both 100V and 240V, but never trust those. Check the manual on the manufacturers website to confirm for yourself.
Warranty will be a PITA ordering direct from US if anything goes wrong.
Don't bother using a travel adaptor- they are loose and unreliable. Just buy an AC-DC adaptor, it's probably a 12V DC input (it'll say voltage and amperage on the existing adaptor).
In fact, there's a good chance that whatever adaptor you're using for your current router will fit.
I'm interested by this. The Manual lists the power adaptor as 12V / 2.5A DC, I assume I just go to any tech/hardware store and find something that does that with our standard wallplug and I'm good to go?
Pretty much. The DC barrel connectors are 2.1mm or 2.5mm, they are somewhat interchangeable depending on tolerances. But check your exiting router- most home network devices are 12V.
30m-40m, I'd get a mesh system, and just buy it locally.
Or just get one new router, and keep the existing router to run it as a standalone wired AP, as he has ethernet.
Could work out a lot more cost efficient- seems like as soon as you add the word 'mesh' prices jump up a bit and you take a big hit on what you can configure.
There's a chance you get a 110v power adapter instead of a 110-240v one. In which case, you'd have to add the cost of another power adapter into your calculations.
Differing legal wifi bands?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WLAN_channels#5_GHz_or_5.9_GHz_(802.11a/h/j/n/ac/ax)
Having a scroll through the manual, it seems this may be something I can tinker with on the software side? Does that sound right
Having used different routers in loads of different countries, this is something I would personally never be concerned with. I'd be more concerned with commercial level gear might brick itself if it's used outside north america. Not a home router.
If you look at the tables, it looks like mostly AU is missing a load of the 6GHz bands, which is irrelevant to an AX/Wifi6 router anyway as they don't use 6GHz.
So you say that Australia's spectrum allocation for wifi does not include the 6GHz bands used in USA or other countries - but are these bands used in Australia for another purpose? and what would happen if your router tried to broadcast on these bands?
@Discombobulated: Beats me. I haven't looked into it. I would be surprised if it's used by something else though.
Another option I was looking at
https://amzn.asia/d/9H51grS