Suggested Router
July 31st, 2013
I’m looking for some advice on what the best possible router I can get, as of January 2012, according to what I will be using it for:
SPECS
22Mbps Download
1.7Mbps Upload
3 people in the house.
3 desktops (2 Wired, 1 WiFi), 1 laptop (WiFi), 2 cell phones (WiFi)
PlayStation 3 (Wired)
Average GB downloaded per month = 200GB
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MAIN USAGES
Heavy Torrenting
Heavy MMO/Multiplayer Gaming
Heavy Art browsing
Heavy YouTube and Facebook usage
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CURRENT ROUTER & PROBLEMS
WRT54G2 v1.0
WRT54G v8.0
Problems: Torrents and downloads that take longer than a few minutes to download, or require users in the house to connect to many people (torrenting), crash the internet often, which is the router crashing and rebooting.
This is obviously a major nuisance for anyone who does major downloading or multiplayer gaming.
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I’m looking for a router than can obviously sustain 3 desktops + numerous misc. devices while being able to torrent or play multiplayer, without crashing or rebooting the router.
Thanks!
P.S. Not a total newb about this, but haven’t been in the networking loop in years.
Something made by Netgear. I have two different models and have had no problems.
You can build a really awesome home router yourself if you have an pc and a couple of networks cards. Doing it this way will give you a lot more flexible in setting up a really cool Home Media server and awesome traffic routing capabibilities.
www.ipcop.org
www.pfsense.org
And if you are really daring you could also try vyatta, www.vyatta.org
My home consists of a bsd firewall (old intel board with a 3ghz celeron 1gb ram 2 scom 10/100 nics) connected to a dsl connection and I run 2 cisco airnet 1100 off a switch to cover the wireless portion.
skullb0y replied: Something made by Netgear. I have two different models and have had no problems.
This. I have a DG834Gv5 which handles everything I throw at it.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833320038
ASUS RT-N16
ziggo0 replied: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833320038This.
ASUS RT-N16
Install Tomato Shibby on it and you’d be hard pressed to find anything better.
Between the Asus RT-N16 and the Asus RT-N56U, what is on top for my requirements?
ASUS RT-N16
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833320038
ASUS RT-N56U
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833320062
I’m mainly looking for incredibly stability using wireless, as the third person in my house will be needing steady, fast, reliable speeds, using only wireless (wired not an option for them)
~lionden~
Thomson do some pretty good stuff. Especially when it comes to running your own home server.
1) Try to stay away from consumer level crap theres so many cisco routers on ebay at the moment because of the recession.
2) Get rid of whatever crap antennas your ap comes with and attach something with gain
I would second netgear. Had two both worked perfectly
You can forget about online gaming and downloading data at the same time. Even a QOS ain’t that good enough to help spread the traffic to stop your ping suffering. 3 computers with 3 different people will just mean constant fights on who is hogging the bandwidth. If you remove gaming out of the equation then maybe a home made router with pfsense will be your only option. Otherwise don’t waste your money and just buy any second hand router and connect via network cable.
S1driver replied: You can forget about online gaming and downloading data at the same time. Even a QOS ain't that good enough to help spread the traffic to stop your ping suffering. 3 computers with 3 different people will just mean constant fights on who is hogging the bandwidth. If you remove gaming out of the equation then maybe a home made router with pfsense will be your only option. Otherwise don't waste your money and just buy any second hand router and connect via network cable.
Yes, I would expect ping increases with 3 people online, gaming and torrenting, so long as it doesn’t do what it’s doing now; crashing and rebooting whenever too many seeds are connected, or too many connection opened (Example: MSN opened, WoW opened, Facebook opened; normally this would crash the router if all 3 people ((desktops)) were on MSN, Facebook and WoW).
My real question is, I guess, is there a router out there than can provide sufficient wireless strength, and NOT crash/restart?
If all else fails, yes, I was looking into just wiring another router.
skullb0y replied: Something made by Netgear. I have two different models and have had no problems.
You are not entirely correct, if you spend enough time researching routers you will find that yes there are some brands better than others (this will basically govern the cost outlay), but most importantly even good brands do make crap models every now and again.
You did give good advice but not enough information.
I quoted you for this because yes Netgear is generally a good brand and i have different models as well.
A really good model is “Netgear DGN3500” this will give you 4 ports as routing plus wifi.
Hope this helps.
i forth netgear i had two different routers and both of them are better then any of my family routers