Tri-Band WiFi

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Tri-Band WiFi Routers for Homes That Never Stop Streaming A tri-band router broadcasts three separate wireless bands instead of two. Older tri-band models pair one 2.4GHz band with two 5GHz bands; WiFi 6E and WiFi 7 tri-band routers replace the second 5GHz band with a wide-open 6GHz band. Either way, the result is the same: more lanes for your devices, so a house full of phones, TVs, laptops, cameras and consoles stops fighting over the same airspace. Every router in this collection is Grade A refurbished, tested, reset to factory settings and backed by our 90-day warranty and 30-day returns. You get NETGEAR Nighthawk, ASUS, TP-Link Archer and Linksys hardware that sold for $300 to $600 new, at a price that makes the upgrade easy to justify. Dual Band vs Tri Band Router: Do You Need the Third Band? A dual band router gives you one 2.4GHz band and one 5GHz band. That is plenty for a small apartment or a household with a handful of devices. The third band starts paying for itself when: You have 20 or more connected devices, including smart home gear that sits on WiFi all day Two or more people stream 4K video or game online at the same time You work from home on video calls while the rest of the house is busy You run a mesh system and want a dedicated band for the link between nodes (wireless backhaul) Your internet plan is 500 Mbps or faster and a single 5GHz band is the bottleneck If none of those describe your home, a dual band router from our wireless routers collection will serve you well for less. If two or three of them do, tri-band is the right call. Which Tri-Band Generation Is Right for You AC Tri-Band (WiFi 5): 2.4GHz + 5GHz + 5GHz Models like the NETGEAR Nighthawk X6 R7900, TP-Link Archer C3200 and ASUS ROG Rapture GT-AC5300 split their devices across two 5GHz bands. Smart Connect features assign each device to the least crowded band automatically. These are the best value in the collection for internet plans up to about 500 Mbps and homes with a lot of ol

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