yoyz
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join:2001-09-04
Falls Church, VA
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Re: Looking for a quality wireless router other than Linksys
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
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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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