By Ali H
Both Belkin F9K1113 AC1200 DB and Dlink 850L AC1750 are good
value simultaneous dual band routers in its class. Which one suits your business
needs best?
Overview
Bunch of models of wireless routers based on the latest wifi
technology you can purchase from the shelf of the electronic stores or online
stores ranging from wireless ac900 with prices under $100 to the high end
wireless ac1900 with the prices above $180.
Are you going to purchase the high end router just for
covering couple of computers and couple of Android mobile devices for your
small home? You will just waste the money for powerful router while you can
find best value router for your small or medium home. Let me take two of
routers with best money you can buy to meet your business needs .i.e. Belkin
AC1200 and Dlink DIR-865L AC1750 dual band gigabit routers. Each of them is
around $130 in online retail such as Amazon.
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| Belkin wireless AC1200 DB |
Comparison
To help you decide which one is the best to meet your need
you can read the main spec comparison between the two in the following Belkin
ac1200 Vs Dlink ac1750 comparison table.
Wifi technology
Is there any differences regarding the wifi technology
between the two routers? Both are engineered based on the latest wifi
technology – the wireless ac (draft 802.11ac standard). This is the fastest
wifi technology – the future (draft version) of wifi technology you can taste
today. Belkin F9K1113 is based on wireless ac1200 delivering the speeds of up
to 1200Mbps total bandwidth, while Dlink 865L delivers the speeds of up to
1750Mbps total bandwidth. Each of the routers can run dual band (2.4GHz and
5GHZ) simultaneously.
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| Dlink DIR-865L Wireless AC1750 |
The antenna technology applied to each of the routers is nearly
the same. Belkin comes with Multibeam while Dlink comes with Smartbeam antenna
technology which is designed internally to look neat and elegant, eliminating
the clutter of the external antenna rods. Multibeam and Smartbeam technology
broadcast the signal in all directions but locks the wifi clients with solid
signal.
Gigabit Ethernet ports
High speed Ethernet ports are ideal in connecting to gigabit
NIC adapters of the computers for high speed data rate throughout to support
demanding high bandwidth applications including large transferring multimedia
files, gaming, video and voice applications. Both routers come with 4xGigabit
LAN ports and 1x Gigabit WAN port.
USB ports
Sharing the storage space is essential in home or small
offices, and sharing the printer is also important in computer networking to
make the most use of your devices on the network. A router with two USB ports
is advantageous to let you host both storage and printer at the same time, no
need to change the device to attach to the port should need to change from
printer to storage or vice versa.
Belkin F9K1113 ac1200 DB comes with two USB 2.0 ports to
help you host both storage and printer together but Dlink comes with only one
USB port. Regarding the storage, both routers supports DLNA media server for
seamless connection with other DLNA compliant devices including XBOX, Blu-Ray,
smart-TV and more.
Cloud services
Dlink offers cloud services with MyDlink Cloud service which
allows you monitor your belongings remotely via your mobile devices while you
are away. With Dlink camera and wireless router with MyClink services you can
monitor your home or small office remotely, never miss the best moment of your
kids while they are growing up.
Other features are almost the same and to summarize
the differences (if any) you can read the following comparison table.
Dlink 850L AC1750
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Belkin F9K1113 AC1200 DB
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Wifi technology
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Simultaneous dual band – ac1750
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Simultaneous dual band – Wireless ac1200
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Wifi speeds
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2.4GHz – up
to 450Mbps
5GHz – up to 1300Mbps
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2.4GHz – up to 300Mbps
5GHz – up to 867 Mbps
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Antennas technology
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Smartbeam – similar as Beamforming technology
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Exclusive Multibeam high power internal antenna arrays
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Ethernet ports
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Gigabit ports: 4xLAN and 1x WAN port
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Gigabit ports: 4xLAN and 1x WAN port
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USB ports
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1x USB 2.0 share storage and
printer; DLNA media server; UPnP
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2xUSB 2.0 port share storage, printer, MyTonky DLNA server,
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Cloud
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MyDlink cloud services and more
cloud Apps for your mobile devices
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N/A
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Guest network
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Yes
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Yes
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Security addition
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Parental control
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Parental control;
Internet filter by Norton
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Both routers receive good average customer rating in Amazon
with averagely 3.8 out of 5 stars. Prices are almost the same at around $130,
and could become cheaper by times when more models come to the markets.
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By Ali H
