Which Router

Florence · 01-09-2005, 23:36

Well looking to replace my old Linksys BEFSR41 ver1 just incase this is the cause of slow browsing. Even though this is an intermittent problem comes and goes without anything being altered.

1Linksys Wireless-G Broadband Router

2.Netgear WGR614UK

If anyone has another router please say which and reasons for using that router.

I really don't want to buy a router and find it doesn't work well with cable and it could have an Xbox or PS2 adding at some point

nffc · 01-09-2005, 23:42

Both look good and will work with ntl. You may want to flash firmware and update the drivers for your cards to support WPA though.

I have a Belkin but looking around, i can't see it, it's a 54g/802.11g wireless cable/dsl gateway router, it's pretty cool. Although pretty much equivalent to the other two...

Halcyon · 02-09-2005, 00:05

I know quite a few people who have the Linksys and have it running fine with NTL.
Its a good router.

GazzaB · 02-09-2005, 00:11

I'm with Nffc on the Belkin stuff, it's good and works well in my experience. Had a few previous run ins with the Linksys cable router not having very good signal range although I believe the Netgear stuff is very good too.

02-09-2005, 05:31

I would always recommend Linksys over Netgear... I had nothing but probs when I had NG and even now my friends who buy them have real probs configuring them. I never had any probs with LS and it seems much more stable. I spose it does make a difference which model you have, but mine was recommended to me by an engineer who fits routers regularly.

deadite66 · 02-09-2005, 07:00

D-Link DGL-4300 excellent router with QoS and XBOX compatabilty

http://www.xboxsolution.com/reviews-169.html

Paul K · 02-09-2005, 07:10

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/article.php?a=74
and
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...ghlight=Router
and many others have router recommendations in them if you want to have a read.

bayonet · 02-09-2005, 07:50

Got a Dlink 624+ wireless 54g runs a treat, testing a Linksys wireless B router for a mate at the moment the BEFW11S4 and that was easier to setup than the D Link.

Just plug in go to the web setup page and select automatic and generate a WEP key for the wireless bit job done. Using INEXQ 54g wireless USB dongle.

Florence · 02-09-2005, 10:55

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paul

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/article.php?a=74
and
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...ghlight=Router
and many others have router recommendations in them if you want to have a read.

Yes I read both those before I put up the poll have two good friends both plugging their routers which are those selected.

It is very hard as there could be more than 5 pcs at some point running and the linksys seems to drop out.. mind it was saying p2p which I hope only one uses as far as I know. would like to be able to limit his usage or speeds sometimes.

akane1984 · 02-09-2005, 11:47

netgear rangemax it is the dogs danglies!

ikthius · 02-09-2005, 11:54

linksys, only cause I have one.

ik

maxtoralias · 02-09-2005, 12:08

Quote:

Originally Posted by bayonet

Got a Dlink 624+ .

Same for me but I have the enhanced 108Mb model. No connection drops with 2 PC's (one hard wired) and a centrino laptop and very easy to set up

zovat · 02-09-2005, 14:33

Linksys all the way - I have one of these and it has been soldi since day 1 - no dropouts, no hangs, just trouble free wireless surfing.

desbrad · 23-09-2005, 11:04

i got a belkin 4 port wired router running 3 pc's on a 2mb connection.

never had any problems at all apart from the power pack blowing but i suppose that could happen to and powered router.

i give it the thumbs up

NitroNutter · 23-09-2005, 15:30

Best router is not some prebuilt POJ with some naf old style cpu that is antique, you will end up with trouble at some point in its life, and they have huge restrictions on functionality, like dont forward more than 1000 ports total, you will crash it.

My router = a pile of old PC bits thrown together,
gigabyte mobo/ 1.4 AMD TB (Thunderbird) 512MB ram, some old 30GB hdd. 1 x 10/100 nic and 1x 10/100/1000 nic. Throw on a linux distro, this is free aswell

I use suse, theres a large choice of free firewalls that you can install that will fluently handle IP forwarding, My favourite is Shorewall. You can go lower in spec, it just depends on what you have kicking about. if you really must have wireless now you can choose between any ethernet AP to plug into your switch. If any component dies its not a router in the bin just replace whichever component has gone faulty. Not only can you repair it with ease the system is very future proof aswell. Its kind of like buying a all in one AV system inc speakers when theres much better available, but this time it can prove to be cheeper and way superior than a prebuilt unit. I mean you could practically build this from new today for about the same price as a hi end respectable domestic cisco router. It will fully support NEt snmp for complete network and hardware monitoring including all systems connected.

My current uptime for the router
# uptime
5:23pm up 90 days 22:15, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00