Which Router
 

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

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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...

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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netgear rangemax it is the dogs danglies!

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linksys, only cause I have one.

ik

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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 :)

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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.

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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:D

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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

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But, in my experience, most people won't need to forward more than a few ports (certainly nowhere near 1000 - in fact if you have 1000 ports forwarded, you might as well have no firewall as that is a massive security hole).

The other problem is power consumption. An all in one router generally consumes less than 50 w of power. A low-end PC will consume 150W up. Combine that with the power consumption of the switch (which is likely to equal that of a router), any access points and the need for extra power sockets.

Oh, and routers (even wireless ones) start at around £40 for a linksys, or lower for unbranded ones.

Using a linux system may well be better (although bear in mind that the WRT54G runs a variant of Linux, and has open source OSes available), but it certainly isn't cheaper.

BTW, my old D-link managed over 5 months of uptime without a single crash or network failure.

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One of the cheapest Linux computers you can buy brand new (not at a garage sale) is the Linksys WRT54G, an 802.11g wireless access point and router that includes a four-port 10/100 Ethernet switch and can be bought for as little as $69.99 according to Froogle. That's a heck of a deal for a little box that performs all those functions, but a look inside is even more amazing. There you'll find a 200 MHz MIPS processor and either 16 or 32 megs of DRAM and four or eight megs of flash RAM -- more computing power than I needed 10 years ago to run a local Internet Service Provider with several hundred customers. But since the operating system is Linux and since Linksys has respected the Linux GPL by publishing all the source code for anyone to download for free, the WRT54G is a lot more than just a wireless router. It is a disruptive technology.

A disruptive technology is any new gizmo that puts an end to the good life for technologies that preceded it. Personal computers were disruptive, toppling mainframes from their throne. Yes, mainframe computers are still being sold, but IBM today sells about $4 billion worth of them per year compared to more than three times that amount a decade ago. Take inflation into account, and mainframe sales look even worse. Cellular telephones are a disruptive technology, putting a serious hurt on the 125 year-old hard-wired phone system. For the first time in telephone history, the U.S. is each year using fewer telephone numbers than it did the year before as people scrap their fixed phones for mobile ones and give up their fax lines in favor of Internet file attachments. Ah yes, the Internet is itself a disruptive technology, and where we'll see the WRT54G and its brethren shortly begin to have startling impact.

http://www.why-war.com/news/2004/05/27/thelittl.html