router for gaming

[logixs]

Alright thanks. Does any1 know why when my house phone rings, it disrupts my internet connection?

 

[KaOTiK]

Alright thanks. Does any1 know why when my house phone rings, it disrupts my internet connection?

56k ftl

 

[EarthwormJim]

It's hard to justify the power consumption for that. Routers are at most a few watts, but even ultra portable laptops are around 20W. Desktops aren't even worth considering for this type of usage for most people.

It's not that much power consumption, my smoothwall box draws 30-40 watts. A typical router will draw 5 watts. At $.1/KWh it costs about $30 to run my smoothwall box per year vs. about $4-5 per year for a typical router. A smoothwall box is very stripped out, it's basically a processor, motherboard, memory and drive.

Plus you can recycle an old computer, so there isn't much to any hardware cost.

I'd gladly pay $25 more a year for a device that has given me 100% up-time for over a year now when no other router has, will probably last longer, and can handle way more computers.

Alright thanks. Does any1 know why when my house phone rings, it disrupts my internet connection?

You did not install your DSL filters properly (or at all), that is what's causing that issue. You need a filter between your phone cord and every single telephone/fax in your house.

The second cause could be wireless phones if you have them. If you have 2.4ghz phones, I'd suggest changing phones to 5ghz or any other frequency that your wireless does not use.

 

[logixs]

I believe I installed the filters in properly (I think) and my house phone is not wireless. It disconnects most of the time, sometimes when I answer it, it doesn't D/C at all.

 

[EarthwormJim]

I believe I installed the filters in properly (I think) and my house phone is not wireless. It disconnects most of the time, sometimes when I answer it, it doesn't D/C at all.

So there is a filter between every single phone and phone jack?

Maybe try hooking the modem up to a different jack?

 

[lothar]

Hi, I was wondering what is a good router for gaming?
The router I have now is a Netgear WGR614v5 54Mbps, it's about 5 years old.

My is ping always high, I gonna upgrade my internet too. What is usually the average Mbps for DSL on speedtest? Mine is usually low.

KillerNIC.

 

[you2]

Hum. I use one of these little trendnet routers that cost something like $27 and have had 100% uptime for 3+ years (I think i rebooted twice). Of course it is wired and my setup is rather simple cbl-modem -> router -> 2 (sometimes 3) pcs. Never had an issue though everynow and then mostly late at night comcast will burp. I suppose if you want to drive 10's or 100's of mb across the local network this router will choke (don't know for sure never tried) but it is fine for samba which I use when editing photos on the win box (raid is on the linux box; which I understand better ).

Anyways most on line games dont' require a lot of bw so I have to suspect this is your net connection or perhaps the wireless if local. You can test this by pulling data from the local net and if things are fine during a burp then you know it is the external net connection.

 

[TheVrolok]

I have no problems with my Linksys WRT54G. Put DD-WRT on her and it's been smooth sailing.

 

[logixs]

Thanks guys.
Yea I have filters on every phone line. I think I'm going to change and put new filters in. Also I'm going to contact my ISP.

What difference does having a good network card make?

 

[you2]

On latency probably very little or none. However if it is dropping packets then it will make a huge difference. You should be able to determine if there is packet loss @ the router with a bit of testing.

Thanks guys.

What difference does having a good network card make?