Best Wireless Router

squiggledot

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I just was wondering what everyone thought was the best wireless router. I know everyone has had some duds, so share those, too, if you'd like.

Thanks!
 

modestninja

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Originally posted by: essasin
wrt54 Linksys or WHR-G54 Buffalo with DD-WRT firmware is hard to beat.

Yeah, pretty much any router that can run the full DD-WRT. I think the cheapest of these is the WHR-G54 from Buffalo is about the cheapest of these.
 
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Originally posted by: LouPoir
Belkin - no way

IMHO

What makes the Belkin a no go for you? I have one of their wireless 54g routers. I am a bit dissapointed in the range of this thing. The rest of the features is OK with me.
 

Madwand1

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I use a D-Link DGL-4300 as my router. I have a Linksys WRT54G running DD-WRT as a wireless client bridge (and a Netgear WGPS606). I used the WRT as the main router previously.

IMO the D-Link is a superior router.

It has a superior feature set to the Linksys out of the box (and is in some ways still superior to the DD-WRT). Buffalo out-of-box feature set looks better than Linksys. I've even heard of wireless client bridging being available out of the box, but I didn't see that in the manual. Buffalo wireless is said to be better than Linksys.

The D-Link is fast and stable; it's never crashed or locked up on me, which is something that I can't say of the WRT54G routers that I've used for long. I've also had 3/4 Linksys power supplies fail over time (years).

The wireless on the D-Link is nothing special. The value proposition of this router is mainly the fast & stable router + feature set + built-in fast GbE switch (although it doesn't support jumbo frames, which are not critical with fast modern gear).

If I was buying a new one, and had lots of money to spare, I'd be tempted to get one of the new draft-n gigabit routers (D-Link and Netgear have them; Linksys and Asus don't AFAIK). The biggest problem with these is the 802.11n is not yet finalized, and so anything you buy now might not be upgradeable to the final standard. So far, AFAIK, only Asus has committed to being upgradable to the final standard, but they only have 100 Mb/s wired ports, which don't make much sense on a wireless device that's supposed to be able to go > 100 Mb/s.

If you're planning to get a wireless router that will be obsoleted before long, then I think the Buffalo / Linksys are the best buys -- at least, they can run 3rd-party firmware that somewhat keep up with the times, and can do cool things like wireless client bridging.
 

zephyrprime

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Yeah, I'm definitely going to get one of those N routers once they come out since I'm hindered by the slowness of my current wifi setup.

By the way Madwand1, I've had some reliability issues with my wrt54g before also. Plus, I'm really pissed that the wrt54g model I have doesn't even have enough processing power out of the box to support all it's features at full speed. The wrt54g series are by no means perfect.
 

Markbnj

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I've been happy with our DLink DI-514, but honestly I think there is so little margin in these consumer devices that you might get a good or bad one from any manufacturer.
 

caberguy

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I've used DLink, Linksys, some random off brand from newegg and Buffalo. The off brand worked great, almost never had to power cycle it, but it died in 1 1/2 years. Then I bought a Linklsys and then the DLink and I had all sorts of problems, it was probably firmware related. The linksys in particular pretty much anytime I wanted to reconnect to it I had to power cycle it first. Then my old roommate stole the DLink that I bought to replace it (although it has stability problems similar to the linksys), after which I bought the Buffalo AirStation G54 (forget the model number, but basically their cheapest one) and it has been great. Good signal, fast throughput, and stable enough that I've only had to power cycle it once or twice in the year or so that it's been running.
 

MGMorden

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I've currently got the D-Link Wireless gaming router (forget the model # - it's the one with the gigabit switch and such) and it's been doing very well for me. For the few systems I have that use the wireless, the range is very good, and it just seems well behaved overall.

In the past I've had another D-Link router (I think DI-614+) which was terrible - it dropped connection relatively frequently and if you really upped the traffic volume (ie, if I ran eMule and Bittorrent at the same time) then the router would lock-up, and would require a COMPLETE reset and reconfigure before it worked again.

After that I went to a Netgear router that worked well as a router, but the wireless portion died after a bit.

Replaced the Netgear with a Trendnet that did ok for the router part, but wireless reception was bad and machines would lose connection to the wireless network from time to time requiring me to stop and restart the ethernet interfaces on them.
 

Metron

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Originally posted by: LouPoir
Linksys - #1
Netgear - Dlink #2
Belkin - no way

IMHO

I used to be a Linksys bigot as well... until I bought a WRT54GX. I installed it, went out to Linksys' site to download the latest firmware, and it veg'd the router. Called Linksys tech support, and they said that I had 2 choices: 1) Wait several days for a new router to be shipped or 2) return the router to the store and exchange for a new one (but don't try to update the firmware). Apparently that model uses a totally different firmware update file (*.bix) that didn't work with their firmware loaders. Huh?

I chose plan C... returned the router to the store and exchanged it for a Belkin Pre-N router, and I haven't looked back since then (this was over a year ago).

Range and speed are incredible... I have a consistent 108 MB signal.
 
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