Hi.
My current, old, router just burnt down. It's quite old so I'm just getting a new one.
I need a router with atleast 4 Ethernet hubs and wireless support. (I've got antennas myself)
Any reccomendations?
Have a look at linksys, netgear on [url]http://newegg.com[/url] and you should be able to find one in your budget, read the feedback too.
[QUOTE=Ruzza;35275921]Have a look at linksys, netgear on [url]http://newegg.com[/url] and you should be able to find one in your budget, read the feedback too.[/QUOTE]
Thanks man.
I have a Linksys E1500 and it works great. It does have some mixed reviews on some places but i think its great. I streamed movies and played xbox live off wireless if that helps any.
I had nothing but trouble with Linksys routers. They tend to disconnect or reset randomly when there are too many conections being made at the same time.
I have 2 netgears; they are awesome. The webinterface is very easy to use aswel for beginners; there is a discription of almost every item and wizards to set up general stuff.
Another vote for Linksys here. I have a WRT45GL With DD-WRT on it.
[QUOTE=Drumdevil;35288860]I had nothing but trouble with Linksys routers. They tend to disconnect or reset randomly when there are too many conections being made at the same time.[/QUOTE]
Same here. Linksys routers have been pure shit since Cisco bought them.
Older Linksys products are actually better than newer versions of the old product. An example would be the WRT54G. Newer versions have less RAM, less flash memory(for firmware, so no Tomato or DD-WRT to replace stock garbage firmware) and even slower MIPS CPUs. The line started off with 8/16 MB of RAM and flash and is now down to 2MB of both. The Broadcom SoAC started off at 250 MHz and was replaced with slower 200 MHz parts.
The disconnecting and too many connections problems stems from two issues:
1) The WAN port (which DSL/Cable plugs into) is only a 10BaseT port (not 10/100 like the LAN ports), which is fine if you're living back 12-15 years ago when cable/DSL modems also were only 10BaseT devices. Now is not the case and what ends up happening is the Linksys device will constantly try to renegotiate a pure 10baseT connection, and eventually fail and disconnect.
A fix for the problem is to put a switch between the router and the cable/DSL modem and let it do the connection handshaking.
2) The "too many connections problem" where new connections fail is because of the limited RAM in the router does not allow for a large ARP lookup table, which will overflow and not allow any new connections to be made. It starts to become a problem under moderate loads, or applications which use lots of connections (like bittorrent.)
There is no fix for this, other than to not saturate your connection. If you're lucky enough to have an older model, DD-WRT has an option to make the ARP tables larger to mitigate, but not completely solve the problem.
I got sick of consumer hardware routers being shit years ago and just made my own PC based router, which has served me well for probably 5 years now. I wrote my own IPTables routing script and it can handle data loads that a Linksys router can't even dream of, and has ten fold the features.
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