Best router for a downloader?

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perdomot

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Can someone recommend a good consumer level router for someone who does a lot of torrent downloading? Thanks.
 
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bobdole369

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Anything that doesn't say "linksys"

Actually your hard pressed to find a bad one these days, but if it says "gamer" than it'll do basic QOS so you won't have to throttle it at the app level.
 
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http://www.pfsense.org/
Really the only cheap solution I have found that can handle hundreds of torrent connections without flinching. You can probably get a pc to run it out of the trash. Really doesn't take much.

I use a p3-500, 256MB ram, 10GB HD, and it only reaches 50% utilization with torrents.
 
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Originally posted by: Modelworks
http://www.pfsense.org/
Really the only cheap solution I have found that can handle hundreds of torrent connections without flinching. You can probably get a pc to run it out of the trash. Really doesn't take much.

I use a p3-500, 256MB ram, 10GB HD, and it only reaches 50% utilization with torrents.
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Only problem with apps like these is they take up lots of space and power. But you would be hard pressed to bring it to its knees
 
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perdomot

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JackMDS,
The Asus router mentions DD-WRT but I don't know what that is. Can you explain? Thanks.
 
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kevnich2

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Sorry, but that Asus router is a pretty decent router, can handle P2P traffic with no problem. Lots of memory, good CPU and DDWRT. Yes, DDWRT is just the firmware, the Asus WL500 G Premium is a pretty beefy router.
 
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perdomot

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I'm using a Netgear WGT624 v3 router currently. How does it stack up to these other routers?
 
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I got ASUS 500G premium and run DD-WRT with it, and I have to say it really can handle P2P without any problem.

The firmware is getting better and better.

You have to have some knowledge to know how to do it though.

 
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bobdole369

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Cisco 1811 won't even break a sweat. You could dump a full 10mbits through it with thousands of connections - no biggie.
 
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perdomot

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Originally posted by: mxnerd
I got ASUS 500G premium and run DD-WRT with it, and I have to say it really can handle P2P without any problem.

The firmware is getting better and better.

You have to have some knowledge to know how to do it though.
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The learning curve for setting up a router is something that worries me. I've used portforward.com's guide to help but I'm concerned that DD-WRT will be to complicated for me without a lot of guidance.
 
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flasing dd-wrt is really beyond average people or newbie. My suggestion, don't do it. I flashed DD-WRT several times with ASUS 500G and almost killed it everytime.

So what's the prolem with your Netgear WGT624 v3 router? If there is no problem, don't change what's working.

If you really want DD-WRT, go to eBay and buy one that's already flashed.

 
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kevnich2

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Originally posted by: perdomot
Originally posted by: mxnerd
I got ASUS 500G premium and run DD-WRT with it, and I have to say it really can handle P2P without any problem.

The firmware is getting better and better.

You have to have some knowledge to know how to do it though.
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The learning curve for setting up a router is something that worries me. I've used portforward.com's guide to help but I'm concerned that DD-WRT will be to complicated for me without a lot of guidance.
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It really isn't that difficult, anybody should be able to do it. There are TONS of options in DDWRT but you don't have to use them. Everything is setup defautly just to work once you flash it. With the Asus routers, there is a firmware recovery utility that's included with the router that you install and then just download the asus mini ddwrt trx file and use that asus utility to flash it, voila. Takes a whole minute. I've flashed dozens with no problem and after you do one, rest are a piece of cake. Just make sure you flash it from a PC that is connected with ethernet to it and have patience, don't panic and pull the power mid way thru the upgrade or else you will kill it. The only people I've heard of bricking there's, that's what they did.
 
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perdomot

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Madwand,
Does the amount of ram make a large difference in performance? I checked Google but didn't find any info. Can you explain?
 
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Madwand1

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The amount of flash RAM affects the potential complexity and sophistication of the firmware running in the router. This is typically a non-issue, because it's big enough to run the firmware that the vendor has built and more flash RAM wouldn't get you anything. This is an issue however when you want to install and run third-party firmware such as DD-WRT, which has a restricted feature set for those devices with reduced amounts of flash RAM.

The amount of RAM matters a great deal for torrent protocols, as these can use large numbers of connections, and each connection has an associated footprint. So this is certainly very important in this context. Another source for related information is SmallNetBuilder router chart showing "maximum simultaneous connections":

http://www.smallnetbuilder.com.../Itemid,189/chart,124/
 
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perdomot

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Thanks for the info, I didn't know that. The Asus isn't available locally but the DIR-655 is and acording to the link, it performs quite well so I'll probably get one this weekend.
 
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kevnich2

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Originally posted by: perdomot
Thanks for the info, I didn't know that. The Asus isn't available locally but the DIR-655 is and acording to the link, it performs quite well so I'll probably get one this weekend.
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If your looking for a very stable router, I'd go with the Asus with DDWRT, even if you have to order it and wait a few days. DDWRT really isn't that hard. I can actually give you the exact links to the specific firmware file if you need to (I've found that most people find the download part of DDWRT site a bit confusing with finding which file they need). Other than that, it's just loading the program to upgrade the firmware and telling it which file to put on it.
 
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