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 Jun 6 2006, 5:01 pm
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I am currently using a cable modem and I am planning on getting a router. What is a quallity, cheap router I should suggest and how would I go about setting it up from my current setup?
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Jun 6 2006, 5:12 pm
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Jerico2day
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i recommend a d-link, they've been good to me, as for setting it up, refer to the manual that comes with it
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I'm a personal fan of Linksys. They work great, and are rediculously easy to setup now. Some of them, all you need to do is press a button. Literally.
I recommend the Linksys WRT54G. | |
I had a lot of problems with my Linksys. I do not recommend them, but there is a good chance I just got a defective one. My Belkin router has the bad habit of calling good and clean pings and connection attempts "DoS attack attempts". It actually prevents me from hosting on BYOND, and many other things. Also, during a firmware update, my Belkin broke, and is now in the RMA process.
One thing linksys does have going for it is loop back connections. I took it for granted when I was using my linksys, but as soon as I got my belkin, I realized there was "something wrong". Come to find out, my belkin router didn't support loop back connections, which is where you put in your outermost IP into something and the router automatically catches this and reroutes you back into your local network. If your router doesn't support this, you cannot use the IP address that others see from you inside your network. For example: I am running a server on one of my machines. I want to connect to it using the same links I give to others. I cannot do this because when I click the link, my ISP is confused by my query because I am requesting to be connected to the IP that I am broadcasting. | |
Yeah, most routers suffer from that problem.
Mine was very odd, the wifi dropped out all the time, streaming WMVs would crash it(but no other media type, and downloading WMVs was fine), and it would lock up every few months. Besides those problems, it worked fine, and is currently serving brother as a temp router till he gets around to buying his own. | |
I'm curently using a Netgear WGR614 Wireless router with WIFI enabled.
Cost me about 50 dollars works well. The only thing I had a problem with was that I had to bridge the connection to my DSL Modem. Other then that its fine. I running a secured wireless network. I hardly loose connection. wireless connection speed it good. usually between 48 to 54 Mbps. Portforwarding is very easy. I don't know the max I can go, but I currently have 3 ports forwarded. | |
I am currently using a D-Link as well, and it is good for the most part. The thing I dislike about it is that it has terrible port forwarding restrictions. I can't forward a range of ports, only a single port per entry, and even then only up to 20. So that means a max of 20 ports, period.
I liked my Netgear the most out of all that I have tried. The only reason I'm not using it now is that I wanted to go wireless, and the guy at BestBuy told me D-Link is a better brand. I shouldn't have listened to him. I also had bad fortune with Linksys. Theirs just didn't work properly at all. | |
I've had bad fortune with Linksys too, router broke down after a year. Been using the same Netgear for about 3(maybe 2, I can't remember) years. Never had a real problem with that wasn't easy to fix. Has a fairly simple interface for portfowarding IMO. (It's a WGR614)
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You think thats bad i had 3 problems with my modem/router it was a belkin three of them didn't save settings to the flash memory ,overheated and melted in the time of 1 month linksys pwns belkin.
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A.T.H.K wrote:
overheated and melted I had that problem too, it was the strangest thing O_o I'm using a D-Link right now, and I would argue that it's great (Minus the port forwarding limit, Belkin beat it hands-down on that) if it didn't seem to suddenly stop letting me host :( | |
Yes wellive got a new belkin which is doing fine connected to a linksys wireless G router but belkin always seems to think its funny dissconnecting programs like MSN Trillian and Kal Online constantly dissconnecting me even if i open the ports on both routers/modem
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Loduwijk wrote:
I am currently using a D-Link as well, and it is good for the most part. The thing I dislike about it is that it has terrible port forwarding restrictions. I can't forward a range of ports, only a single port per entry, and even then only up to 20. So that means a max of 20 ports, period. Really? That's odd. My (recently bought) D-Link DI-704P can do port ranges. I haven't tried putting in more than 20 entries (it's currently at 14). The firmware is newer than the one on my old router (which was the exact same make and model), so maybe there's a difference there. I don't think my old one could do port ranges (never tried). The power supply on my old one died after several years of service (after being constantly plugged in and turned on for the entire time, day in and day out). I was quite happy with my old router, so I just bought the same one again. It's extremely cheap, pretty reliable, and does everything I need. | |
Crispy wrote:
Really? That's odd. My (recently bought) D-Link DI-704P can do port ranges. I haven't tried putting in more than 20 entries (it's currently at 14). I have the 524. Maybe they fixed that problem in newer models, as people must have complained a lot about it. I should probably just go get a new one again. Then again, if I wasn't a procrastinator I would have just taken this one back and exchanged it for a better one as soon as I found out about the restriction. | |
I secound linksys, but with third party opensource firmware like hyperwrt. third party firmware can add fetures only found in $1000 Routers.
so get a WRT54G v1-v4, WRT54GL, WRT54GS v1-v4, or WRTSL54GS. these are all open source capable. hyperwrt- http://www.thibor.co.uk/ | |
Xzar wrote:
I secound linksys, but with third party opensource firmware like hyperwrt. third party firmware can add fetures only found in $1000 Routers. Thanks man your a champ boosted my range 200 metres now :D | |