Looking to buy a new router
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Razacka2




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PostPosted: Mon, 7th Jul 2008 09:18    Post subject: Looking to buy a new router
Alright, it seems like my old router broke down, it was as a belkin so now i need some advice regarding the best brands in the "router" business.

So far i've thought of going with a netgear/D-link/linksys router, i don't want a router that is to expensive but i don't want one that is to cheap either, the router should have both wireless and with wire.

That's about it so if you guys could recommend me some good and medium priced routers i'd really appreciate it.
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Paintface




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PostPosted: Mon, 7th Jul 2008 09:27    Post subject:
linksys, compatible with everything
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Parallax_
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PostPosted: Mon, 7th Jul 2008 09:35    Post subject:
Netgear is horrible, D-link is borderline unstable in my experience.

You can't go wrong with Linksys/Cisco, they make great routers.

Linksys WRT54GL is nice.

I use the Linksys WAG200G here at home at the moment, but that's a router-modem.


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PostPosted: Mon, 7th Jul 2008 09:55    Post subject:
Don't buy Netgear. That is all i have to say.


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CaptainCox
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PostPosted: Mon, 7th Jul 2008 10:49    Post subject:
I get a crappy "Fritz Box" LINKfrom my provider, but its for free Smile.


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Surray




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PostPosted: Mon, 7th Jul 2008 13:37    Post subject:
I used to have a DLink DI-604, it sucked at first ,connection died quite often for some reason and had to restart the router to get it to work again, but after I did a firmware upgrade it was very reliable and worked great.

Until it was owned by lightning anyway...

so now I have a Linksys BEFSR41 (35 euros) and it works very well out of the box. No problems yet, it's been connected 24/7 for for 2 or 3 months now.


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suicid4l




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PostPosted: Mon, 7th Jul 2008 15:07    Post subject:
i'd go for one which you can flash with open-source firmware

personally i use several whr-hp-g54's from buffalo flashed with dd-wrt from www.dd-wrt.com it's got a built-in amplifier and is a very good quality reasonably cheap piece of kit.
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Razacka2




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PostPosted: Mon, 7th Jul 2008 16:27    Post subject:
Parallax_ wrote:
Netgear is horrible, D-link is borderline unstable in my experience.

You can't go wrong with Linksys/Cisco, they make great routers.

Linksys WRT54GL is nice.

I use the Linksys WAG200G here at home at the moment, but that's a router-modem.



I'm going for the Linksys WRT54GL, mainly because there are modded firmwares which is really nice as well as i've only heard good stuff about it, it's quite cheap as well and it looks old skool Razz
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