Nightfall
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join:2001-08-03
Grand Rapids, MI
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Re: Looking for a quality wireless router other than Linksys
You are going to find people that like to tout one router or another as being the best. When it comes to consumer routers, they are all equally cheap for a reason. I have bought some cheap ones that have lasted years, and others have had problems a few months later. Seems that one person or another will say that Linksys is great, while a lot of people say it sucks because theirs failed after a few months or a year.
In short, consumer routers are hit and miss. You are going to find differing reviews on them for a reason.
I have had good fortune with SMC, Dlink, and Linksys on the consumer side. I would stick with a name brand....save your receipt.
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yoyz
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join:2001-09-04
Falls Church, VA
| You're right however I had a bad experience with Linksys. Whether I have servers or not, the througput WAN to LAN sucked and god forbid I turn on the firewall. That alone took about 3-5Mbps of my bandwidth literally! If I pay for 15MBps, that's what I want flowing to my computer so I'm trying to find the best router 'sold in the USA' at bestbuy or circuitcity that will give me the best througput. Forget I said anything about having servers. |
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michaelr7
join:2004-03-26
Tucson, AZ
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Whether I have servers or not, the througput WAN to LAN sucked and god forbid I turn on the firewall.
This depends on the specific model of LinkSys (or Netgear, D-Link, etc.) which you have. None of the consumer grade router vendors design the HW nor write the SW. They simply create a box, package the HW and SW inside, put their logo on it and sell it. Also two different model routers (or different versions of the same model) will usually have a HW design and SW from completely different sources. That is also why you will often see one vendor's firmware looking a like like another vendor's firmware - both vendors bought it from the same supplier. Same firmware - just slight changes to the configuration web pages and maybe a bug fix or two produced in house. |
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tshad
join:2006-11-06
Newport Beach, CA
| reply to yoyz
How do you tell if a device, such as the linksys, is taking 3-5Mbps? I have been trying to figure out if my network is being saturated at differing times of the day.
Our network is a 10/100 network and we have variuos firewalls/routers and switches Netgear and Linksys mainly. But we do have times of the day when we seem to have connection problems and I am having trouble tracking it and am curious if the network is being overly saturated.
Thanks,
Tom |
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