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Originally Posted by andy76
Im in the same position as seany, i'm on virgin with 20mb and have got a belkin router that has gone weird on me. i did a firmware update and now i cant connect wireless. nothing seems to detect the router!! works fine wired.
as a result looking at a new router and saw you comments about WRT160N, i run a laptop wireless, pc wirelessa a ps3 wired and a xbox wired. would you say this would do the job well? saw a linksys router that had gigabit connections on it. would that be better for gaming?
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Belkin have a bad name when it comes to hardware...a lot, and I mean a lot of people complain that their Belkin router or what not has broken.
Linksys on the other hand are the commercial side of Cisco, who are the biggest network equipment manufacturer in the world. I've used a few Linksys devices, all were excellent quality, no problems and easy to set up.
As for the Gigabit connections, you probably don't need them. Especially since the only devices wired directly to the router are games consoles. They don't need any where near 100Mb bandwidth, let along 10x that. As for your wireless devices, wireless N would offer you greater transfer speeds (it will NOT speed up your internet) and greater connectivity area. Though, standard web browsing and online gaming wouldn't utilise wireless N properly, only if you did file transfers over the wireless, or streamed HD movies wirelessly. If you don't do those, then there's no point in investing in Wireless N other than for future proofing.