Recommend me a wireless ADSL router please
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I presently have a wireless D-Link G604T ADSL router that has started acting up. For no apparent reason it just completely drops my wireless connection and I am forced to do a full power off / power on reboot of the router every 30 minutes or so. I wouldn't care but I am not even using it that heavily. I have tried it on different channels and what have you but nothing seems to be helping.
So, I am going to get a newer better one. I would like to spend no more than £100 if possible. I would like it to be able to handle bit-torrent and other P2P without crashing - in my old house I had a Linksys WRT54G which crashed so often on P2P that when i moved out, i left it there! Obviously it must be wireless too.
I am not after anything unnecessarily complex, I just want a solid, reliable product with a good wireless signal. Can you recommend me anything please?
So, I am going to get a newer better one. I would like to spend no more than £100 if possible. I would like it to be able to handle bit-torrent and other P2P without crashing - in my old house I had a Linksys WRT54G which crashed so often on P2P that when i moved out, i left it there! Obviously it must be wireless too.
I am not after anything unnecessarily complex, I just want a solid, reliable product with a good wireless signal. Can you recommend me anything please?
www.draytek.co.uk/products/products.html
They produce solid pieces of kit. Worth getting a voip port for future use.
Use the comparison chart to select but maybe a little over your £100 budget.
They produce solid pieces of kit. Worth getting a voip port for future use.
Use the comparison chart to select but maybe a little over your £100 budget.
Darytek, depending on how much torrenting you want to do. Most home routers will handle about 80-100 simultaneous connections, which sounds a lot until you consider that on larger pieces of a torrent, you could be theoretically using around that number for a single piece. In practice, you are unlikely to find more than half a dozen conributors for a piece though. Now, say 10 pieces at once, and you're there. More than one torrent? Watch your connection appear to collapse if you want to browse at the same time.
Draytek routers can handle up to about 15,000 connections - the performance beats the snot out of linksys, netgear et al.
Draytek routers can handle up to about 15,000 connections - the performance beats the snot out of linksys, netgear et al.
I have used both the Netgear DG834G and the Draytek Vigor 2700G and i have to say i much prefer the Draytek. I live in a rural area and the Draytek is much better at holding onto the ADSL signal and it goes for months without a reboot. Yes, they are more expensive, but i guess you get what you pay for.
And if you go here it's only £94 inc VAT.
And if you go here it's only £94 inc VAT.
Edited by arcturus on Sunday 28th January 01:24
Draytek is really an SMB router and priced accordingly (even though it costs the same to make as Netgear/Linksys etc)..they also sell in tiny volumes compared to the big brands...bear this is mind when you use the argument xxxx brand has less problems than yyy brand...when one brand sells 500 units per month in the UK and the other sells 500K per month, its likely that you might get a few more people reporting issues with brand Y (just a fact)
I run my Netgear with 800 emule connections just fine. - the no of connections is purely down to free memory available in the router when its running - most of them have similar performance chipsets from TI, Broadcom or Conexant.
ADSL performance is not just down to the router - its a combo of the chipset at both ends of the connection..sometimes a particular combination of ADSM modem driver vs DSLAM linecard chipset/driver works better than others.
as Ive said before, your first port of call would generally be to which manufacturer is recommended by your ISP - if they support it, it generally means its been tested for interop on their network..when we all had 512Kbps etc it didnt matter so much, no with all the high bandwidth services on offer, its much more important.
If you want to spend £100 on a router then sure go for a Draytek (they are good routers)...in fact get a £500 Cisco with 4x the memory...its even faster
I run my Netgear with 800 emule connections just fine. - the no of connections is purely down to free memory available in the router when its running - most of them have similar performance chipsets from TI, Broadcom or Conexant.
ADSL performance is not just down to the router - its a combo of the chipset at both ends of the connection..sometimes a particular combination of ADSM modem driver vs DSLAM linecard chipset/driver works better than others.
as Ive said before, your first port of call would generally be to which manufacturer is recommended by your ISP - if they support it, it generally means its been tested for interop on their network..when we all had 512Kbps etc it didnt matter so much, no with all the high bandwidth services on offer, its much more important.
If you want to spend £100 on a router then sure go for a Draytek (they are good routers)...in fact get a £500 Cisco with 4x the memory...its even faster
trooperiziz said:
jamieboy said:
mattyb123 said:
Whatever you do stay away from Belkin. They are complete crap!!!
...which is odd, because my current Belkin is as good as my first Netgear, and miles better than my (hopeless) second Netgear. Same here. Netgear have been rubbish in my experience.
yes i found netgear troublesome,i dont use them anymore,i use a safecom/guru modem and a Kcorp gold router i must say that router is one slick bit of kit with good wireless range.(yes much better than Netgear)i have a mate who as the same set/up and he binned hes netgear also(crap w/less range)all running 24/7.
Buffalo equipment is solid, full featured and unlike NetGear equipment, doesn't shit itself when faced with NTL's network.
I've got a Buffalo router and it's been quite literally flawless for the 3 years I've had it.
In my experience, Netgear stuff is only any good if it's square and blue (and even then we had a layer 3 managed switch that managed to eat its own brains over the course of about 2 days, and wouldn't hold its flash image) - the curvy shiny grey/silver stuff is all crap.
I've got a Buffalo router and it's been quite literally flawless for the 3 years I've had it.
In my experience, Netgear stuff is only any good if it's square and blue (and even then we had a layer 3 managed switch that managed to eat its own brains over the course of about 2 days, and wouldn't hold its flash image) - the curvy shiny grey/silver stuff is all crap.
Edited by CommanderJameson on Monday 29th January 07:20
PJ S said:
NTL meets Netgear is a shitstorm waiting to happen? That's a tad melodramatic shirley!
So far, the one my son uses has been rock solid and hassle-free.
Setting up via the wizard on the PC was an absolute breeze.
So far, the one my son uses has been rock solid and hassle-free.
Setting up via the wizard on the PC was an absolute breeze.
I had a NetGear router that reliably shat itself (i.e. locked up solid) when presented with certain web pages - the NTL telly pages being a case in point. I eventually got it down to being something to do with the way the router interacted with NTL's transparent web proxies (using other proxies to access the same pages eliminated the problem) and speculated that it was something to do with the SPI firewall not being actually off as such, but rather being in "pass-through" mode.
For the curious, it wasn't a browser or computer problem; 3 different computers (PC, laptop, desktop) running 3 different operating systems (Windows, Linux, OS X) and 3 different browsers (IE6, Firefox, Safari) all behaved the same
I wasn't alone, either; I found other people on t'internet who were experiencing the same problems.
The unit in question was a WGT624. Build quality was shocking, too. eBayed and replaced with a Buffalo WBR2-G54S.
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