routers

[pontifex]

whats a good router? i think mine is dying.
needs to have built in firewall.
i'd prefer something in the $50 range.

 

[arcenite]

i've been using a dlink di-604 for 2 years and it is still going strong

 

[obeseotron]

Any router will serve as something of a firewall, it is inherent in a NAT router as I understand it. What exactly do you mean it is dying? I understand it could be dead, but is should be either working or dead, not "dying."

There isn't a ton of difference under $50, get something popular (Linksys, D-Link, whatever) so it's easy to troubleshoot/find documentation.

 

[itechand]

Originally posted by: pontifex
whats a good router? i think mine is dying.
needs to have built in firewall.
i'd prefer something in the $50 range.

D-Link, Linksys & Netgear make the best!!

 

[Ika]

D-Link, Linksys (i would rec belkin, but mine is stupid and shuts down randomly when running bittorrent...)

 

[Koharski]

I'll second the DI-604 from d-link. I got it a futureshop for 25 bucks with a 25$ MIR, sent in the MIR, came back and pricematched to 20$.

So I basically was GIVEN 5 dollars to but the router

 

[The Batt?sai]

Originally posted by: arcenite
i've been using a dlink di-604 for 2 years and it is still going strong

my di-604 is still going strong too. i was going to get a wireless one but decided for a cheap 50 foot cat6e cable to go from the 604 to upstairs where my roomate's pc is

 

[OSX]

I use the wireless DI-604, which is the DI-524, which is important so I can use the wireless functions of my iBook. I also have 100 feet of cat5e running to the linux computer.

 

[Varun]

I have the DI-604 as well and it's been great. Easy to work with as long as you are happy with the 100Mbps switch.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: obeseotron
Any router will serve as something of a firewall, it is inherent in a NAT router as I understand it. What exactly do you mean it is dying? I understand it could be dead, but is should be either working or dead, not "dying."

There isn't a ton of difference under $50, get something popular (Linksys, D-Link, whatever) so it's easy to troubleshoot/find documentation.

it keeps disconnecting me from the internet.
i have an old di-604 sitting here but i can't get it to work right. i can't log into it and it doesn't recognize that the cable is plugged into the wan port.

tried to reset it but that doesn't seem to work. i don't even know if it works to begin with because it was laying around unused for a long time at work.

 

[BW86]

DI-604 here also.

 

[Koharski]

haha, wow. this is a popular device

 

[Paulson]

Well I have the linksys WRT54G, actually I have 2 of them. They've both been working for more than 2 years and have had a LOT of bandwidth through them. (One is for my djpsmusicmix.com site which for a few months in a row managed to put out 100gb's a month easy. Also I use them for all my torrent needs as well, no problems.

 

[SlitheryDee]

I have a DI-614+ which I aquired from someone who thought it was fried by a lightning storm. Turned out that only the power supply was fried and the router itself is now part of my home network. I know for a fact that this router was in operation for nearly 2 years before I got it. Seems like a D-link would be a pretty safe bet.

 

[FeuerFrei]

Originally posted by: Koharski
I'll second the DI-604 from d-link. I got it a futureshop for 25 bucks with a 25$ MIR, sent in the MIR, came back and pricematched to 20$.

So I basically was GIVEN 5 dollars to but the router

I just bought a DI-604 last week. $25 after MIR. It's doing fine. I set it up yesterday.