What is the best wireless router?



D-link btw if you are planning to access it on different floors of a house then it won't work. I'm using it for more than 1.5 year now.
 
I have gone through 3 different $100 + routers in the last 6 months. The issues were when running scrapebox on my wireless laptop, the router(s) would just take a shit and stop broadcasting a wireless signal. It was a major pain in the ass and was effecting my ability to use scrapebox successfully.

Well after doing some major research I settled for this: netgear N600
So far it has been 3 days (running scrapebox almost 24-7) with ZERO dropped signals. I haven't had to restart it once aside from upgrading the firmware when I first set it up.
 
That ASUS RT-N56U router for just $125 looks like the best bang for your buck at the moment.

Any here actually own one?
 
That ASUS RT-N56U router for just $125 looks like the best bang for your buck at the moment.
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Been using it for the past 6 months it's been pretty good. Router is in the corner of the basement so the main floor and basement get good coverage, 2nd story the signal drops off quite a bit. The desktop on the 2nd story uses the asus usb-n13 wifi card and it's not that good with dropping the connection all the time. Everything else from laptops, ipods, tablet all connect well via G or N wifi modes well but that 2nd story the throughput with any device is poor. Asus updates the bios about every 3-4 months. It has a USB port so you could attach storage if needed for NAS and/or FTP server. The admin interface is a bit odd compared to linksys or netgear. It doesn't have any antenna's so you can orient it either standing up to radiate the signal out horizontally or lay it flat to radiate vertical.

I went through looking at a bunch of higher end routers including Netgear's the SOHO Cisco models. Comes down to what you really want from a security standpoint IMO, otherwise buy multiple cheap routers. For my second story connections the plan is use some powerline adapters for either a direct connection or add another wifi router extended from the asus router.
 
I'm going through the same search right now. Seems like a lot of the high end, new models all have issues with dropped connections, either wireless or wired.
 
CharisMannequin said:
What does the firmware have to do with anything?
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It is the "operating system" on the router. Some are proprietary pieces of shit that can't handle large amounts of connections, hog resources, and/or crash all the time. DD-WRT and Tomato are linux based, don't crash, and add many features of more expensive routers. The only time my router gets restarted is when my power goes out.
 
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