DIR-655 - best choice?

[egale]

I am getting a new laptop with a built in N capability so I would like to upgrade my router to one that supports 802.11N.

Won't be doing anything fancy, just need to set up the wifi for the laptop and plug my desktop in.

Looks like the DIR-655 is very popular. Saw one bad review that said signal strength was horrible though.

Would like it to have Gigabyte lan port, easy to set up, good tech support, good range. Nothing else has stood out for me yet. Anything else I should be considering. Seems like there are horror stories among all brands and models.

 

[alevasseur14]

I would look around the intertubes and see if people with your laptop can get full connection speeds out of it. For example, my Macbook and the DIR-655 are both draft N certified. However, the chipset used in the Macbook doesn't quite jive with the chipset in the 655 and therefore doesn't support channel bonding which is a requirement to get to 300 Mbps. Instead, the laptop links up at 130. Oh well. That's draft for you. As a router, it's good and I haven't had any problems with it. Mines been up for around 60 days now with two bandwidth hogging roommates hitting it pretty hard every day.

People will say that you shouldn't touch draft equipment and maybe they're right. All I know is that the official certification has been taking forever and I'm grateful of the increased speed I did get. It helps. All that on top of a speedy, gigabit wired router. I dig it.

 

[JackMDS]

Unless you really need the Draft-N there is No point to get Draft-N Wireless Router.

Hardware should be used according to functional Tech, need and Not bevause of what ever card was stuck by the vendor into the Laptop.

Get this flash it with DD=WRT you would have a good Router.

Asus WL-520GU
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?item=N82E16833320023