Recommendations please for wireless router
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Dalek Dave wrote:
anyone got any comments or advice?
How is it that your router is at such a low level, that this could happen? Or are you made to use a high-chair at home?
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Henry Minute wrote:
How is it that your router is at such a low leve
On a table? My wireless a/p, once acquired, will see both it and my ADSL router on the 1' high phone table in the lounge.
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Dalek Dave wrote:
I need something cheap and easy
Ok, my first thought was, you're talking about Jim Crafton, then I read the rest of what you said ... I highly recommend LinkSys routers. I have one and it's been great. Gets excellent range, has a really good feature set, and was a snap to set-up.
Ditto. I've always been happy with LinkSys. I've owned about 4 different versions of their routers at various stages.
Simon
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I am looking for a new one after an unfortunate accident involving a bacon sandwich and a cup of tea. (Choked on sandwich, coughed and spilt the tea all over the router). I need something cheap and easy, so thought of a Belkin 54g, but anyone got any comments or advice?
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If you're in the US, I have a Netgear you can have for the cost of shipping. In fact, I have a number of routers sitting in their boxes not being used. I was intending to throw them in the garbage, but if anyone is interested, I can list what I have... Off the top of my head, I have a Xincomm, a Netopia, and the NetGear, and maybe one more.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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That would leave an awful taste in the mouth!
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Ahem! I am thickly sliced, covered on the inside with butter and containing crispy grilled bacon coated with brown sauce. How can I leave a bad taste?
Joined Folding@Home 12 March 2009. Laptop probably not up to it but it's chugging away.
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I am looking for a new one after an unfortunate accident involving a bacon sandwich and a cup of tea. (Choked on sandwich, coughed and spilt the tea all over the router). I need something cheap and easy, so thought of a Belkin 54g, but anyone got any comments or advice?
------------------------------------ "I am always serious about what I do, not necessarily about how I do it." Tom Baker
You didn't give much information and the topic is involved, as everything else. Do you need 54g or draft-n router? If you need n router, do you want 2.4GHz or 5GHz one? As I said, the topic is too involved to sum it up in a single post, so I'll refer you to smallnetbuilder website which I found most useful when I was searching for draft-n router for myself. That's the only website that actually opens up routers to see what's inside and that does detailed speed tests. http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/[^]
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I am looking for a new one after an unfortunate accident involving a bacon sandwich and a cup of tea. (Choked on sandwich, coughed and spilt the tea all over the router). I need something cheap and easy, so thought of a Belkin 54g, but anyone got any comments or advice?
------------------------------------ "I am always serious about what I do, not necessarily about how I do it." Tom Baker
I was going to recommend against a Linksys router. One of the worse pieces of computer equipment I ever bought. They finally fixed some bugs in the firmware, but every now and then it gets in a totally messed up state. It would happen even more often except I turn all my computers routers and DSL modem off at night. (The irony is that Cisco owns Linksys and my old Cisco DSL/Router combo was rock solid reliable.)
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
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I hope it wasn't CP's BaconButty you choked on. :~
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Dalek Dave wrote:
anyone got any comments or advice?
How is it that your router is at such a low level, that this could happen? Or are you made to use a high-chair at home?
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
Hiding conveniently on floor by PC table!
------------------------------------ "I am always serious about what I do, not necessarily about how I do it." Tom Baker
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Ahem! I am thickly sliced, covered on the inside with butter and containing crispy grilled bacon coated with brown sauce. How can I leave a bad taste?
Joined Folding@Home 12 March 2009. Laptop probably not up to it but it's chugging away.
Brady states on his Biog Page he is a specialist in "back-end applications" I will leave you to make up your own jokes!
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Dalek Dave wrote:
I need something cheap and easy
Ok, my first thought was, you're talking about Jim Crafton, then I read the rest of what you said ... I highly recommend LinkSys routers. I have one and it's been great. Gets excellent range, has a really good feature set, and was a snap to set-up.
My longer reply is below, but I've had nothing but headaches with my Linksys router (WRT54G). The variation in quality with their offerings is huge. (When I first got the router, among other things it would crash every time there was any streaming video. Took five firmware releases to get it fixed and it still periodically slows to a crawl.)
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
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Dalek Dave wrote:
Everyone's a bloody comedian!
Like you're not! ;P
Ali
We are ALL bloody comedians!
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If you're in the US, I have a Netgear you can have for the cost of shipping. In fact, I have a number of routers sitting in their boxes not being used. I was intending to throw them in the garbage, but if anyone is interested, I can list what I have... Off the top of my head, I have a Xincomm, a Netopia, and the NetGear, and maybe one more.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 -
My longer reply is below, but I've had nothing but headaches with my Linksys router (WRT54G). The variation in quality with their offerings is huge. (When I first got the router, among other things it would crash every time there was any streaming video. Took five firmware releases to get it fixed and it still periodically slows to a crawl.)
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
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Hiding conveniently on floor by PC table!
------------------------------------ "I am always serious about what I do, not necessarily about how I do it." Tom Baker
BTW If you PCWorld store has a magazines section peruse page 148 of PCPRO issue 175. Section entitled 'New Adventures in Wi-Fi', it doesn't make any recommendations it's just general stuff about the usefulness or not of the number of aerials on routers. Might be useful, if you are anything like me. Ooohh! Look that one's got THREE aerials, must be better. :-D
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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It's primarily the Linksys WRT54G--despite the common name, the differences between rev 1 and rev 8 are huge--so huge, it's really deceptive to use the same model number for them. I have a rev 8 and its problems were notorious, though not as bad as some previous versions.
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
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I am looking for a new one after an unfortunate accident involving a bacon sandwich and a cup of tea. (Choked on sandwich, coughed and spilt the tea all over the router). I need something cheap and easy, so thought of a Belkin 54g, but anyone got any comments or advice?
------------------------------------ "I am always serious about what I do, not necessarily about how I do it." Tom Baker
Some will say Dlink, some will say net gear, and some will say linksys. Others will just say stay wired :p (me being one of them). Linksys has good wireless router the wireless cards can be an issue if your location has issues with interferance. I found switching to a Dlink worked better for my location. at another location Linksys was better. Now I know that seems odd but the first location was an old appartment building ( that should have been used more for a Dorm as it was close to a college). I beleive the D-link " gamer" router (I forget the full name) was the high ground for me that did very well in a bad location. I foun d generic wireless cards better then the named brand. Linksys Tech support was top notch (I had to laugh as I was running pre release vista and they had just had their " vista trainning". I was their first vista call. Linksys runs through sysco and has decent web interface. it's going to come down to preference. I don't think I have to mention this, but people tend to forget; if curious of a signal issue, run a /ping -t and watch what you get :) think geek has some neat gadgets for signal detectors as well. (Seems I've been doing more hardware articles then programming articles. please rate this post :D )
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It's primarily the Linksys WRT54G--despite the common name, the differences between rev 1 and rev 8 are huge--so huge, it's really deceptive to use the same model number for them. I have a rev 8 and its problems were notorious, though not as bad as some previous versions.
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
Interesting, sounds very similar to the problem I had with my Netgear wireless router, the first router I purchased. Any time I tried to copy file larger than 2mb across the network, it would cause the router to drop all wireless connections, and I would have to go reset the router. After repeatedly contacting the company for help, and getting no where, I wrote them a nasty letter, which I never heard back from, and gave up. So I went back to the store and purchased a LinkSys WRT54G v4 wireless router, and haven't had a single problem since. I have a LinkSys Cable modem, LinkSys router and recently purchased a LinkSys switch, because I ran out of hardwired ports on the router. I'm sorry to hear you had problems, but I know from experience their support is really good, had to contact them to deal with a problem my Father was having with his set-up, and they were great help at trouble shooting the problem and getting things back to a working state, even though, as it turned out, not to be a problem with any of the LinkSys hardware. Ok, I'm going stop now, because I'm beginning to sound like a LinkSys Fanboy or something ... :rolleyes:
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Ahem! I am thickly sliced, covered on the inside with butter and containing crispy grilled bacon coated with brown sauce. How can I leave a bad taste?
Joined Folding@Home 12 March 2009. Laptop probably not up to it but it's chugging away.
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Everyone's a bloody comedian! :) Better advice: Don't put cups of tea near technology! (It is not the first time either!) I bet there are loads of people here who have had to purchase new keyboards because of coke/coffee etc.
------------------------------------ "I am always serious about what I do, not necessarily about how I do it." Tom Baker
Dalek Dave wrote:
I bet there are loads of people here who have had to purchase new keyboards because of coke/coffee etc.
I especially cannot recommend the application of jelly to keyboards, especially if allowed to pass between the keys. The best was of removing said jelly is to immerse the keyboard in ants and allow them to carry it back to the nest.
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If you're in the US, I have a Netgear you can have for the cost of shipping. In fact, I have a number of routers sitting in their boxes not being used. I was intending to throw them in the garbage, but if anyone is interested, I can list what I have... Off the top of my head, I have a Xincomm, a Netopia, and the NetGear, and maybe one more.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
