Need help looking for new router from a WRT-54G

[Jules]

Not sure what to get. looking to spend less then 80 bucks for one. Any advice?

 

[boomerang]

Someone else asked that very question just the other day. Two posts down. 🙂

 

[Jules]

Originally posted by: boomerang
Someone else asked that very question just the other day. Two posts down. 🙂

Thanks 🙂

So that Zyxel is a good router? Getting tired of my WRT54G. It sometimes has problems and needs to reboot.

 

[boomerang]

Myself, I have no personal experience with it, but JackMDS (who recommended it), has some impressive credentials here. In addition, he has a website with a tremendous amount of information regarding networking. I have seen positive comments about him at other Forums also.

I trust his judgment.

I too, recently had problems like you describe with a 54G and returned it shortly after purchasing it.

I really should not speak for Jack, but part of his philosophy appears to be to buy the least expensive piece of quality hardware you can. SOHO routers are manufactured so cheaply these days that if you get 4 or 5 years out of them, you should happily trash it and buy another. BTW that last sentence is my way of thinking.

I have always had very good results with Netgear products. My recent straying has been problematic. Including the Buffalo I currently am using. I can see another Netgear purchase looming for me.

 

[Jules]

Originally posted by: boomerang
Myself, I have no personal experience with it, but JackMDS (who recommended it), has some impressive credentials here. In addition, he has a website with a tremendous amount of information regarding networking. I have seen positive comments about him at other Forums also.

I trust his judgment.

I too, recently had problems like you describe with a 54G and returned it shortly after purchasing it.

I really should not speak for Jack, but part of his philosophy appears to be to buy the least expensive piece of quality hardware you can. SOHO routers are manufactured so cheaply these days that if you get 4 or 5 years out of them, you should happily trash it and buy another. BTW that last sentence is my way of thinking.

I have always had very good results with Netgear products. My recent straying has been problematic. Including the Buffalo I currently am using. I can see another Netgear purchase looming for me.

Oh i see. Ive been having my WRT-54G for about 5-6 years and i figured it times for a new router. My current router is fine but sometimes it just acts like a POS. I think i will be going with that Zyxel.

 

[mageslayer]

Flash your router with dd-wrt I flashed my old one and it has nice options and insane stability.
You can even overclock it!!!

link

 

[blazerazor]

Im in the same boat, my 802.11b linksys died. Shows constant RED Diag light and Link light. It will do NOTHING. 🙁

so im going to go shopping for one this evening. Looks like the WRT-54g is what I am shooting for, but hoping to get a WRT-54s. It has more ram and a USB hook up for sharing directly on the network (but it has to be FAT, so i hear) The version to have is 3 (8meg), 4 (4meg), 5 has 2megs ram. (dont quote me on that, wiki it) I guess linksys didnt like ppl being able to do so much with a 60 dollar router,... no way average joe is buying a cisco box to set up his home network. The WRT-54L is the LINUX version.

[edit] is it worth it for the 'speed boost' ?? Cause B.Buy has the regular one (wrt54g) on sale right now for 49.99. The one with speed boost is like 69.99 and the speed boost card is 20 dollars more too. btw, my network is all 802.11b currently. So only one pc will get the action.

 

[Aarondeep]

Originally posted by: mageslayer
Flash your router with dd-wrt I flashed my old one and it has nice options and insane stability.
You can even overclock it!!!

link

Yes try the new firmware before you go out and spend money on a new one. DD-WRT works better than the linksys firmware.