Wireless Router

[ExcaliburMM]

Greetings Anandtech,
In my past 3 routers I have had the worst luck possible. A linksys that died in 4 months, a netgear that lasted a year, and now I took a chance and grabbed a Rosewill, which aside from refusing to port forward, has served me well. However I'm done settling. I need a router with excellent wireless range and guaranteed port forwarding, specifically for Starcraft and Warcraft 3, with no 3rd party firmware hassles. Looking to spend around 50-75$ if possible.

 

[JackMDS]

Buffalo WHR-HP-G54

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16833162134

Asus WL-520GU - http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16833320023

Both are Very Good.

The Buffalo has much stronger Wireless.

If you need more features both can be Flash with DD-WRT.

http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/ind...hat_is_%22DD-WRT%22%3F

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As side Note.

None of the Entry Level Router stand well under heavy P2P downloads.

Taking into consideration the big saving on "Questionable Downloads" One can spend few hundereds $$ on a "real" Router.

 

[ExcaliburMM]

Thanks Jack. My torrents never have enough seeds to go much over 300kbp/s so I don't think it'll be a problem.

Can anyone vouch for the Buffalo's port forwarding capabilities with standard firmware? Or vouch for it with third party firmware even? I'm really hesitant about getting anything until someone can.

 

[JackMDS]

I am not sure what your problem with port forwarding is?

It is Not a common problem with Routers.

I hope that you are aware that any specific port can be forwarded only to one computer.

I.e., you can not run WOW (or any thing else) and forward the same ports to more than one computer on the same Network.

In any case, I have few Buffalo Routers, few running stock firmware, few running DD-WRT, and one running Tomato.

None exhibits any issue with port forwarding.

 

[ExcaliburMM]

I mean that the Linksys refused to open ports, the Netgear would only open them for the first few months of its operation, then stopped, and the Rosewill would never open them at all. I have some terrible luck.

Probably going to go with the Buffalo then. Thanks for all your help. I suppose I'll be back if I need help with the 3rd party firmware.