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Journal gmhowell's Journal: b/g/n router 14

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Anyone have any preferences for a b/g/n router? I'd like one so that I can put my nice, modern Apple stuff on the N side of things, and the shitty, legacy crap over on the b/g side. Already have an older Time Capsule that isn't full, so I'm not going that route. (Oh, and I'll probably not give my brother access to the N, cause he pisses me off too much).

Thinking to bridge the connection from that to the Time Capsule, and let the Time Capsule handle the rest of it.

I don't care about off the wall firmware. That doesn't interest me in any way, shape or form. Unless I have to deal with that kind of malarkey to get either my Time Capsule or my tons of BT stuff to work nicely.

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  • I've been using a cheap Dlink b/g/n router for the last couple of years, and I've got no complaints. No interference with the neighbors wireless, a nice interface, the wii also sees it just fine several rooms over ...

    It replaces a Linksys that's now just sitting on a shelf, until I get around to sticking it at my daughters (her linksys never worked on the wireless side, and a hard reset and the usual attempts at reconfiguring from scratch produce nada).

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by gmhowell ( 26755 )

      Got a model number?

      Neighbor interference is a non-issue. Nearest one is probably 100 yards away through about 75 yards worth of trees (s/yards/metres if it helps ;)

      Hell, if the parents had paid attention to me, there' be at least some cat 5 in every room in the house....

      • Gladly: DR-615 (manufacturers' site) [dlink.com], also futureshit.ca [futureshop.ca] and worstbuy.ca [bestbuy.ca]. The reviews are overall pretty good. Some people have had problems with their iPods, but one of the reviewers tells you what to do. Some others have had some problems with PPPoE, but nobody with cable dsl, so it's more likely that it's a problem with their provider continually changing their external IP.

        I paid $50 bucks for it on sale a couple of years ago, and its' price hasn't changed (except that now that's the "regular price

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by gmhowell ( 26755 )

          Huh. I click on that link to 192.168.0.1, and it doesn't open to a configuration page at all. Are you sure that's the correct address?

          I'll take a peak at this one and the one mentioned below.

          • To open up the config page the first time, you have to be physically wired into the router (not trying to connect via wireless). Also, make sure you don't have another working connection at the same time, or you might be going through that connection, which definitely won't connect to 192.168.0.1, which is strictly local.

            Make sure, if you're connecting from your laptop, that wireless networking is turned off during the initial config. Again, because you won't be able to see a local address if your only

  • Amazon sent me one for review purposes - so far I really like it. It's quite a bit more expensive than the D-Link TH mentioned.

    It is a Netgear Rangemax WNDR3700 Dual Band Wireless-N Gigabit Router [amazon.com]. I'm a fan of netgear already - and this has made me more of one. The feature set is crazy and performance has been great. I like the UI - which is the same as the other netgear routers I've used, but with more options.

    You can have unique setting for each band if you want. There is also a way

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by gmhowell ( 26755 )

      Now that I think of it, the ability to not allow guest access to the N side of things would be very nice. I'll take a look. If I can take care of a financial transaction or two, the extra bit of money won't matter.

  • No idea (Score:2)

    by Tet ( 2721 ) *
    I'm pretty hot when it comes to networking, so I was expecting to be able to help here. But I had to google to find out what you were referring to by "b/g/n". I'm afraid I just don't do wireless at all. It's the area of networking where I'm weakest. Wires work well for me, so I've just had no need to investigate the alternatives (apart from bluetooth, of course, but that's not what we're talking about here).

  • I had a Netgear Wireless N router and was unhappy with the speed of the router itself as well as the lower than expected performance in mixed G/N modes. I now have a Dlink DIR-825 "Dual Band" router. It can run multiple wlans on each band so that the traffic doesn't interfere with each other and so that you can support older devices that use WEP (like my Tivo) at the same time you can use WPA2 on Wireless N. Wireless N on 5Ghz band gets nearly full strength signal all the way from my basement up to the 4t

  • Personally, I always try to get Atheros-based devices for WiFi.

    Luckily 802.11n is still so new that the cheaper chip makers (broadcom, realtek, etc.) haven't moved into the market much, and most devices with N are currently Atheros (including all the ones mentioned in this thread so far.)

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