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I had 50mb broadband installed last month and get incredibly slow speeds the further away from the router I get and also have trouble with the Internet dropping out.
The WNR2000 router is in my room and when I am in the same room as it, I rarely get a drop out and get about 37mbps. Anywhere outside of my room and I constantly lose connection and get agonisingly slow speeds.
When I was on 20mb broadband, I had my trusty budget Linksys WRT54G and I don't think I ever lost connection on it and I could use it without problem even at the bottom of my garden.
I am looking into purchasing a new wireless N router but there aren't many out there and I don't want to buy something that is as bad as or worse than what I have already got. I wondered if anyone could advise me on what to go for.
Another vote for the DIR 655 can be picked up for about £70 on line and I managed a bit of haggling to get it for £90 down Tottenham Court Road.
Was a bit worried when I had to reboot it the second day I had it as it crashed but has been going nonstop for the last three 4 and a bit months. Range on it is very good, used to have issues with my netgear when we had a ADSL service coverage from the living room to the bedroom could go up and down. With the DIR 655 it I get a full signal on my laptop and iPhone.
Some of the new netgear ones look quite nice as well.
netgear wndr3300 gets my vote really good range no problem running multiple pcs/laptops ect at the moment mine is connected to 1 pc(n) 2 laptops (g) 1 buffalo nas drive +usb seagate hardrive no probs at all ,router is downstairs in livingroom and pc+1 laptop upstairs with a ps3 connected occasionaly it has never dropped a connection in the 4 months i have had, it cost £85 from pc world
superb piece of hardware much better than the belkin n1 vision i tried and had nothing but problems with
I have a DLink 635 bought from Dell on special for about £50. It has 3 twigs, operates surrounded by TV, DVD,dig fone etc. Al my internals are plasterboard. Rock solid connection since last Oct on laptops with g and a PC with n . Right now it says its giving me 54Mbps.
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