I need a good wireless router

[pstylesss]

Constantly am having problems with them. I need a good router for around $150. What do you guy suggest? I want to purchase it today.

 

[rickeo]

http://www.smallnetbuilder.com...m_wireless/Itemid,200/

Personaly i would go with the D-Link DIR-655, great for the price. ~$140

 

[blacksheep312]

The DIR-655 like rickeo said would be my only recommendation. I have had mine for 3 months now working flawlessly. And for some reason, I can download faster then when I was wired. 🙂 Network never drops, and have used it intensely. So far have Downloaded close to 100 gigs, no interruptions. I have aslo created a VPN setup on my wireless PC, had a friend join, and played multi-player games on a LAN. Incredible!

 

[pstylesss]

Thanks for the comments guys. I'm glad you both suggested them because that's what I had just spotted at newegg. Anyone have any bad experiences with it yet?

 

[JackMDS]

Buying hardware has to be decided on the Functional needs and technological Value.

To benefit from the Draft-N component you need Draft-N cards.


Good Draft-N card is about $80 to $100. So between the Router and the Card you end up spending almost $250.

The majority of Home users can get the Functioning that they need by buying this Device.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...181218&Tpk=zyxel%2b550

So for an expense of $70 most people would get the same outcome as from buying a $250 concoction.

Do you belong to the few that might benefit from the $250 Hardware?

I do not know since thus far the approach that was taken is the merchandizing approach rather than a technical one.

 

[rickeo]

I've been on these boards for all of a few days, and i have read many of you're great posts Jack, but don't you think that reliability also plays a part? The DIR-655 is absolutely rock solid. Had mine for 3 months like blacksheep and have never had to reset it. Never. I'm a heavy bittorrent user aswell. Also, the reason i suggested it in the first place was the high price range he originally posted.

 

[pstylesss]

I'm sorry I didn't clarify more. This is for use in City Hall and will have relatively heavy use. I can't spend 20 minutes every morning fixing it because it decides to not work. Reliability is very important, I don't give a shit about draft-N.

 

[JackMDS]

http://www.nextag.com/Proxim-O...0-65020889/prices-html

 

[Griffinhart]

Now, I'm a huge fan of the DIR-655 and highly recommend it because it is so reliable, but I'd look at a business class router for your needs.

 

[Kelemvor]

Were you using the WRTs stock or did you flash them with better firmware? I'm had mine with DD-WRT running for quite a while now (a year maybe) and I've never hard to reset it even once that I can think of. Not sure what you might be doing to yours to make it keep stop working...

 

[pstylesss]

Originally posted by: Kelemvor
Were you using the WRTs stock or did you flash them with better firmware? I'm had mine with DD-WRT running for quite a while now (a year maybe) and I've never hard to reset it even once that I can think of. Not sure what you might be doing to yours to make it keep stop working...

When I bought it I got two. When the first one started having its problems, I dida lot of troubleshooting and eventually updated the firmware. That didn't make a difference. I continued to try to figure out what was wrong and never got it working. I replaced it with the other one and it was having the same problems.

Maybe you got lucky. It hasn't received good reviews on Newegg.

 

[Madwand1]

The D-Link DI-724GU is like a DGL-4300 with a couple of additional features and "business class" marketing instead of "gaming" marketing. I'd say the lineage is good, based on the success and popularity of the DGL-4300 line, continuing on to the DIR-655 and many others, including the earlier ZyXEL X-550 -- their common feature is an underlying Ubicom chipset.

 

[cjvon]

Originally posted by: ZeroIQ
I'm sorry I didn't clarify more. This is for use in City Hall and will have relatively heavy use. I can't spend 20 minutes every morning fixing it because it decides to not work. Reliability is very important, I don't give a shit about draft-N.

Commercial use = Cisco or other high end wireless solution.

We use Cisco wireless in our office/factory environments and they work flawlessly. Forget about finding a commercial solution for $150 though.

 

[crispytreat]

Originally posted by: cjvon

Originally posted by: ZeroIQ
I'm sorry I didn't clarify more. This is for use in City Hall and will have relatively heavy use. I can't spend 20 minutes every morning fixing it because it decides to not work. Reliability is very important, I don't give a shit about draft-N.

Commercial use = Cisco or other high end wireless solution.

We use Cisco wireless in our office/factory environments and they work flawlessly. Forget about finding a commercial solution for $150 though.

I agree

 

[drebo]

For use in this kind of situation, I would have to recommend Cisco or Aruba. Proxims are notoriously unstable...I've got a customer with a Proxim bridge that goes down every other week...I've got four or five customers with equivalent Cisco wireless bridges and have yet to had one go down.

Aruba is also nice from an access-point standpoint.

So...Cisco or Aruba.