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How obsolete is your router? Let's compare router e-peen.

VirtualLarry

VirtualLarry

No Lifer
I'll start, I've had a bunch of routers.

An SMC (remember them?), which had an x86 16-bit CPU, and 10Mbit/sec ports, and couldn't give my house mate and I full speed on our shared DSL line, without disabling the firewall (SPI) on the router. (Those were the days!)
(Edit: I think that router pre-dated wifi.)

Since then, I've had Linksys 802.11b WRT11B, WRT54G 802.11g, and a Motorola 850G equivalent, that I used WDS in the early days with those two, so I could dual-boot Linux, which didn't have drivers right away for my USB WUSB54G.

Been through some Netgear 802.11n routers, with DD-WRT on them, then some Cisco/Linksys E2500 with Tomato, now currently with an Asus AC68R (same H/W as U), running Tomato, using CTF with gigabit FIOS.

Been looking at something newer, something tri-band, I'm not really sold on the 802.11ad (60Ghz) routers. They claim 4.6Gbit/sec max channel bandwidth, but only line-of-site in one room. Which really wouldn't do me any good. Plus, they're like $400-500. I have a hard enough time getting convinced to spend more than $50 on a router. (Which will still get you a darn decent router, with gigabit WAN/LAN, and 802.11ac, at least AC1200. Might have to go refurb though.)

Currently rocking 802.11ac, 200+ Mbit/sec down and up for wireless, also use some 802.11n 2.4Ghz wifi for laptops.
 
I have an eero with 1 beacon. It has eliminated the dead spots in my house and has completely fixed all the weird wifi problems I used to have.
 
I only upgraded from my Asus RT-N16 in January, at the time I thought the capacitor had gone bad again, but now I think it was just Spectrum's crappy service. Now I'm using a TP Link Archer AC1750. Seems fine, though it doesn't play nice as a file share for my PS3/PS4 to play MP3s from (I have an external HDD plugged into it). Moot since I built a living room PC (first PC I've built in over a decade!)
 
ASUS RT-ACRH13, just got it last spring. The only thing it's used for is my wife's laptop, it's plenty fast for that.
 
lxskllr said:
Last router I used was a wrt54gl with tomato firmware. I now use a kyocera phone :^D
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Amazon still sells the wrt54gl new for $29.99 and people are still buying and using them.


I use the built in router in my stove. If that fails then the router in my Samsung dryer takes over. 😀
 
Lanyap said:
Amazon still sells the wrt54gl new for $29.99 and people are still buying and using them.
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They're fantastic routers, and still worth buying if you don't need modern features(speed). If mine still wasn't working, I'd consider getting another.
 
i have a at&t uverse redacted profanitybox, hey at least they update the firmware

i keep a old wrt54g for wireless bridging
 
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Ubiquiti ER-X + UAP-AC-LR

Won't upgrade until WPA3 rolls out and has some time in the field....or something fails.
 
Yes, I'm wating for WPA3 too. Since Asus routers, old and new, all seem to be still getting updates, I'm hopeful that the AC68U/R and AC66U, among others, will get a WPA3-update.

Or maybe, I'll invest in an 802.11ax router, that's the newest standard. (802.11ad seems to have come and gone? No-one noticed?)
 
Taking it out of the box.
Not connected yet.
Is this an obsolete model ?
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AznAnarchy99 said:
Google Wifi. Been great except for that one time where their cloud servers went down and had to manually reset everything.
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Are you saying that Google Wifi is dependent on the cloud, for your local wifi to function properly, or only that you need to reset and re-configure your local wifi, and you were using a cloud-based configurator, that happened to be down at that moment?
 
Linksys BEFSR41 version 2.

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Not really sure how new it's considered but it has to be fairly new, since it's not version 1.

J/K But I do have that router in storage and it was one of my first routers. Currently running Pfsense on an Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E4500 based server. It's the box that says Firewall:

 
RT-N56U. The only times it has been restarted is when the power goes out, which isn't often. Gives good wi-fi speeds for my laptop.
 
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