ASUS RT-AC1300UHP

Can get below RM500 at lazada with vouchers
price range is RM500++

u need to describe "the house"...

how many storeys... how long, low wide...
where will router be placed.
what devices... how many... posiiton... ethernet or wifi...
what speed u use now...

there is no one big universal power router to serve all houses, all purposes...
give details, poepl can comment, suggest.

Please ensure your room is on the same floor as the router before buying one with high-gain antennas.

no I'm not using this router.

check the specs here:
https://www.asus.com/my/Networking/RT-AC130...specifications/

1. yes

2. AFAIK the high gain omni directional antennas will make the coverage further but narrower but I'm not sure if it's the same with the AC1300UHP... there's some pics on the net showing this but I couldn't find them now 

3. yes

4. from my experience with asus routers yes they are stable. no you don't need to restart often... unless there are 50 people in your house and 30 of them torrent 24/7 and 10 of them run xunlei and god knows what the rest are doing and there's no bandwidth control applied or something crazy like that 
you may also consider improving the wifi on the receiving side, i.e your pc or laptop. which one is it btw? you can either buy a powerful usb wifi receiver (like Tp-Link Archer T4UHP) or buy a wireless access point that can be used in client mode - one of the advantages of this second option is you can connect a long ethernet cable (one end to your pc) and place the access point at a spot with stronger signal. For example if your pc is in your room, you can use say a 8m flat ethernet cable (so that it can easily run under your door, hide under the carpet, etc) and place the wireless AP outside your room.
plus like AVFAN said, you need to describe 'the house' in detail

your problem is a typical "i hv bad wifi in my house".
countless threads, countless users struggle with it, with no obvious WIFI solutions.
factors are yr internet speed, distance, barriers, router, and device n application use.

fortunately, i have a lesser problem of such albeit similar.
.. your house is wide but not tall... i dun think it is worse than mine in terms of wifi reach.
.. 50mbps is fine but will help if u can upgrade to 100mbps.
.. becos of losses, base 100mbps can still give u decent net speed at the furthest corner.
.. better router will help, so will the pc wifi adaptor.
.. front lower right (left) to back upper left (right) will be the most challenging.
.. theoretically, the "balloon" coverage can be reshaped by tilting the antennae backwards to reach higher, but... i find it rather useless.

i am using asus rtac1300uhp; pc with asus usb-ac55 adaptor; 100mbps.
couldn't get good results with original 2.4ghz pc, but the 5ghz adaptor changes everything

router front lower left, pc back lower left, 55ft, 2 walls, wifi... this test is with 2 other devices doing heavy stuff:


with router at front lower level, all devices at same level are fine, great speed.
upper level, 5ghz devices can get 70-80% of the speed, except for the worst blind spots - these, u must avoid... move yr pc, table, bed, etc.
2.4ghz devices will get about 50% of the speed, which is good enough for most purposes.

i do not know if a router double or triple the price will do a much better wifi job or it will be a point of diminishing returns.

my router been on for 2.5 months... 24/7, latest firmware, no reboot.

from what you described, that is not using a wireless ap in client mode 
sounds like repeater (wifi extender) mode?
client mode is when you plug an ethernet cable to the AP, and the other end of the cable directly to your pc/laptop. basically it becomes like your usb wifi receiver. when doing this it is best to disable your built in or external wifi receiver.
which tplink AP did you use btw?

Bro, your problem is very common. Most of the people are complaining that they are having bad WiFi in their house but if you really want the best wifi system, you have to invest a lot. By buying those so called, "high gain router" doesn't really help much in most of the circumstances, there will still have slow wifi problems due to interference from your neighbor's wifi. In terms of stability, most of the Asus router will do a very good job, but ofc not those cheap ones.

Second, never ever put your router in the front of your house, put it at the center point of your house in order to get equal signal strength from your router to every corners of your house. If you can't change the setup, then get yourself a few APs around your house. Connect to the AP whichever is close to you so that you can get good speed.

Lastly, I would recommend you to get TP-Link Archer C3150 or Asus AC1300UHP if you want a cheaper option. Both routers perform quite well.

I will tell you now that the AC1200G+ is definitely not similar to the AC1300UHP. You are making the mistake of looking at the numbers only and not the router itself. The AC1300UHP is much better than the AC1200G+, in every aspect.  5GHz will be better than 2.4GHz as it will be less congested and not exposed to that much interference, but its coverage is less than 2.4GHz, so keep that in mind.

The router must be connected to the AP via Ethernet for the client mode. You must set up a few AP in client mode, NOT repeater mode.

Forget about using 5Ghz it's only good for small apartment.

To get stable wireless internet while making it simple and cost effective, just add a wireless AP. Some cheap router such as tenda F3 and Fh456 have the wireless AP feature built-in and  It will allow you to play with the QOS limiting bandwidth by MAC.  I have a 1 month used tenda Fh456 to let go cheap if you are interested.

The drawback with wireless AP is that you won't be able to utilize the 50mbps at 1 client when sharing. Anyway, investing in so called high gain router will not ensure you to utilize the 50 mbps as well when your room is at another end of second floor.

Consider having an access point running in bridge mode for those devices at the back end.  Even a high gain router may not mean better connection at the back as each client needs its own high gain adapter which is costly.  There are a number of options (WDS or wireless bridge) if you do not run cable from your primary router.  WDS allows 'roaming' between the stronger signal router however at a cost of half the bandwidth.  With 50Mbps you will not notice this.

the longer u keep this issue open, the more confusion and "bright ideas" u will get.

i am glad i did not get exotic, do just something v simple.

really, my experience, just one good router, forget all the rest, yr house wifi will be fine.

it's not like it is a 3 storey 80x150ft footprint bungalow with 15 rooms.

all the best.

Honestly bro, just get one good router and it will be more than enough.

Totally agree.... TS house size is ok, just invest in a good router... Asus RT-AC86U is good enough, have smart switch to automatically switch between 2.4 and 5GHz...  and can control QoS using MAC address. But Seeing TS previously reply... I think maybe not in TS budget

the other option is to buy a better router like the Asus RT-AC1300UHP 
oh wait, shall we go to powerline adapter? 
btw you only have to use 1 cable for your device if you want to use client mode.

It’s the best bet. We can recommend you more expensive models but I don’t think you want to go any further.

your main problem is wifi lower corner to upper other corner.
these 2 areas in any house are most unlikely to share the same phase of a 3 phase power supply.
hence homeplug will do nothing.

other options will involve laying cables, or repeater, extender, access point - more equipment, work, more money, more headaches.

your house is similar to mine, quite typical actually.
no need to fret, wifi tech with good new routers are good enough for that.
higher priced routers can do the job but rtac1300uhp is good enough.
and very consistent: 55ft 5ghz


if u buy at shop, might as well take your unifi id/pw with u, get it set up there with latest firmware, go home plug n play, easy.
remember if yr pc does not have 5ghz, best tobuy a dual band adaptor as the same time.
then u see the improvement in total.

if u get into difficulties, can post in asus thread, many asus users can help u, if u need.
my experience is in post #6739.
https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/4382989/+6720?hl=ac55#bottom

Couple of points.

1.  Is the present router working enough to keep you reasonably ok, forget about the wireless range for the moment?  Say for clients connected near it?
2.  If the answer to (1) above is true, then invest in a wireless range extender, many options are available depending on your budget.
3.  Are you going to stay with Asus or consider other vendors?  Some wireless extender/bridge/whatever to extend the range may be vendor proprietary so choose a vendor with good firmware and hardware support.  A good router will NOT need a scheduled reboot and will run without issues for years rebooting only after a power failure.

Likely even with a high end expensive router the 5Ghz signal at your back room will have, if you are lucky, one bar signal.  On 2.4Ghz its going to get interference from neighbours' wifi, your microwave and cordless phones.  That is why mesh networks are coming onto the market to solve these issues but its too early to get them as (1) expensive (2) firmware are more like alpha builds (3) new technology

For many years had used the TM supplied router as a VLAN switch and had multiple routers handling wifi using a single SSID and devices auto connect the optimal access point (including one connected to the router LAN port to handle wifi as the wifi on TM router was not robust enough).  These were hardware carried over from pre-streamyx and the routers (AirPort) got replaced every 8 to 10 years as the technology render them ineffective (first ones were b/g capable).