Recommend me a new home Wifi Router

[thescreensavers]

Well it seems my WRT54gs is experiencing age issues, hard resets and firmware upgrades changes..ect problem still happens.

Going to upgrade to a 802.11n router


I have done a quick search and it seems D-Link DIR-655 Around 80 bucks is good but its quite aged now. It also seems that Linksys routers are in the pooper since they all have bad reviews/ratings.

Any one else Have a recommendation?

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

What's your price range? What devices are you going to be hooking up? Would you want 5GHz capabilities or no?

 

[thescreensavers]

I would say 100 is soft cap, Just computers, Gaming. No need for 5ghz I am the only network that shows up on any of the wifi devices.

Our network

5PC's
4+ other devices, Phones, Xboxs..ect

We do some heavy netflix streaming and Torrenting..ect

I was reading and I should get a router with a good amount of ram?

Edit: BUFFALO WZR-HP-G300NH has 64mb of ram and is 80 bucks and this just came out a few months ago.

 

[Dasda]

I'm in same boat as you, having a hard time finding a clear standout router these days.

 

[boomhower]

Edit: BUFFALO WZR-HP-G300NH has 64mb of ram and is 80 bucks and this just came out a few months ago.

If you don't need USB I would go with either that Buffalo or the Netgear WNR3500L.

 

[thescreensavers]

I went with the Buffalo G300NH, comes on monday

And It does have a USB port, if you wanted to hook up an external HD. Which is cool, I Might do that.

 

[boomhower]

I went with the Buffalo G300NH, comes on monday

And It does have a USB port, if you wanted to hook up an external HD. Which is cool, I Might do that.

Good choice. I don't know why I wrote USB, I meant dual band.

 

[thescreensavers]

Good choice. I don't know why I wrote USB, I meant dual band.

hehe Its cool

Well I finally got it working after 2 hours bleh

Most of the time was frustrating power cycling, the router and modem were not communicating, I plug the modem into a computer directly it works, so I was about to return the router, until I did some googleing about comcast and routers, blah blah blah

Then I decided to search "BUFFALO WZR-HP-G300NH comcast modem problem"

And came up with a post on Buffalo's official forums, that I had to move some switch from Auto to ON, on the back of the modem. And then make it Automatically get IP address from DHCP from the modem. As soon as I did this, my modem connected with my router.

It seems the Wizard that is supposed to make it easy was screwing things up, I knew this after a few power cycles..ect but I did not know that switch existed. (Thanks Buffalo for not including a what do these lights and switches do.) I dont care much about the what lights mean but I would of seen on the diagram about that switch back there and then I would of been able to figure it out.

Any how I then had one more issue.

Ethernet Devices where Blazing, but Wifi devices where crawling at dial up speed literally. So I tried to install DD-WRT again. Only this time I read the Wiki about it :X

I was downloading the wrong DD-WRT file, I was doing the DD-WRT>DD-WRT update file, and needed the Buffalo>DD-WRT Firmware

So I got that sorted out and reset up my router in about 5 min ( which is how it should of been from the get go :X) and every single problem I had with the Buffalo Firmware was fixed with DD-WRT.


So most of the problems I had was user error, but Buffalo fails at putting simple documents in the box with the router.

But with DD-WRT (14402) so far so good, After some netflix streaming and gaming ill post up about my opinions.