A NOT Shitty Wireless Router? Anyone?

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krazyjosh5

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Alright. Im done!

The past two fucking routers I've had were complete shit. I got the Linksys WRT54G, that would intermittently lag my connection and then start back up. Streaming anything was a bitch.

Right now Ive got a Buffalo WHR-G125. This thing is a pansy of a router if I ever knew one. The memory is constantly maxed out and, if Im doing some serious downloading (read: torrents) or uploading (read: AIM file transfers), it will wimp out or max out my ISP connection or something but it is 100% consumed by the file transfer. Any device connected to it will get damn near 0kbps in and out although LAN-to-LAN connections will be fine.

Can ANYONE recommend me a wireless router that isnt complete shit?

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krazyjosh5 said:
<rant>
Alright. Im done!

The past two fucking routers I've had were complete shit. I got the Linksys WRT54G, that would intermittently lag my connection and then start back up. Streaming anything was a bitch.

Right now Ive got a Buffalo WHR-G125. This thing is a pansy of a router if I ever knew one. The memory is constantly maxed out and, if Im doing some serious downloading (read: torrents) or uploading (read: AIM file transfers), it will wimp out or max out my ISP connection or something but it is 100% consumed by the file transfer. Any device connected to it will get damn near 0kbps in and out although LAN-to-LAN connections will be fine.

Can ANYONE recommend me a wireless router that isnt complete shit?

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I've got a VersaLink 327W and experience the same problems with my home computer (crammed with girly scrapbooking sofware, photo ablum crap, etc.)

Just reformatted my "office" computer and I have no problem with it.

Anyone had success with those booster antennas you see on e-bay?
 
Linksys will never confess this (you have to find their vlsi schemes or talk to one of their engineers) but those wrt routers can only handle 32 concurrent processes. While you may be well below the 100mbps they create a huge bottle neck. This means, while you're downloading a torrent(worse case scenario for a router) with 500 peers, you are actually only downloading from 32 at any given moment (minus a connection for msn messenger, internet explorer, keep alives etc etc).

Same thing with Dlinks. Their highest home use router can only handle 114 concurrent connections. the 604i can only handle 30.

My suggestion?
Try an smc.
Their barracades have 8 times the memory and can handle 4,000 concurrent connections.
This particular wireless router has twice the memory of your linksys and can handle 2,400 concurrent connections.
SMC SMCWBR14T-G 108Mbps 802.11g 4-Port CableDSL Wireless Router at TigerDirect.com
and its about the same price :)
Do some research, call the companies and persist until you get an actual engineer on the phone, ask him enough times and he'll spill it. Do that until you find the one that can handle some f'in downloads while staying in your price range :)

Also use the diagnostic tool on your torrent downloader to make sure your udp and tcp ports are open correctly. That will dramatically slow down if not. Utorrent has a great one built in.

Also check this out. It's absolutely correct.
For those of you who don't know. Windows XP with SP2 and win. 2003 limits the amount of TCP connections to 10. In other words your tools are forced to only 10 threads, it also fucks up shit like bit torrents.
Here's a patch that changes the limit to 50.
Works great.
http://www.lvllord.de/download.php?u...tch223d-en.zip
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Likewise, for your connection problems make sure the router isn't overheating. That and/or a cabling issue is usually the culprit. If not than SMC routers are by far the most reliable.
 
I have the linksys WRT350N. Its a piece of junk. $200 down the drain. I have to reset the firmware once a week, it loses its connection frequently, and their tech supports only know how to do 2 or 3 steps. This was my last linksys router I'll ever get.
 
I've been using a Netgear WGT624 for over 4yrs with no problems. If you're hooked up with cable broadband the coaxial cables could be giving you problems as well if they are older.
 
Deliguy said:
Likewise, for your connection problems make sure the router isn't overheating. That and/or a cabling issue is usually the culprit. If not than SMC routers are by far the most reliable.
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At the school I last worked at, one of the offices had this real cheap wireless router that would overheat and then self shutdown. It would repeat this over and over again whenever a lot of heavy downloading was being done. The two solutions, no downloading in the office or buy a better router, were never heeded. To this day, they still are still dealing with the issue.
 
Deliguy said:
Linksys will never confess this (you have to find their vlsi schemes or talk to one of their engineers) but those wrt routers can only handle 32 concurrent processes. While you may be well below the 100mbps they create a huge bottle neck. This means, while you're downloading a torrent(worse case scenario for a router) with 500 peers, you are actually only downloading from 32 at any given moment (minus a connection for msn messenger, internet explorer, keep alives etc etc).

Same thing with Dlinks. Their highest home use router can only handle 114 concurrent connections. the 604i can only handle 30.

My suggestion?
Try an smc.
Their barracades have 8 times the memory and can handle 4,000 concurrent connections.
This particular wireless router has twice the memory of your linksys and can handle 2,400 concurrent connections.
SMC SMCWBR14T-G 108Mbps 802.11g 4-Port CableDSL Wireless Router at TigerDirect.com
and its about the same price :)
Do some research, call the companies and persist until you get an actual engineer on the phone, ask him enough times and he'll spill it. Do that until you find the one that can handle some f'in downloads while staying in your price range :)

Also use the diagnostic tool on your torrent downloader to make sure your udp and tcp ports are open correctly. That will dramatically slow down if not. Utorrent has a great one built in.

Also check this out. It's absolutely correct.


Likewise, for your connection problems make sure the router isn't overheating. That and/or a cabling issue is usually the culprit. If not than SMC routers are by far the most reliable.
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Just the response I was looking for.

Deliguy droppin some engineering knowledge on that one. Computer Engineer by chance? I am.

Btw, do you own the router you linked to? While the specifications you mentioned are awesome, the reviews from a quick Google scan are not.
 
yes I am, four year hardware engineering from Oregon Tech.

Yes I do, I use it at my house. Great router. I actually tend to like routers that get bad reviews. Generally the public doesn't know shit about routers, so any cheaper router thats worth a damn gets bad reviews because it doesn't come with all that crappy ass easy one touch secure setup software bullshit that every grandma who can't figure out their own microwaves loves.

I plugged it in.
I opened Internet Explorer
I got a "Page cannot be displayed error"
The router is broken!
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^^^ usually equals good router :)
 
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I feel ya...

I just bought a belkin from walmart and it worked for about 30 minutes before my connection would 'slow down to a halt' and then all of a sudden 'ramp back up' full speed. It did this several times before I got tired of it and took it back and went back to wired
 
right now im using a WRT300N V1.1 but i had a WNR854T-100NAS and it worked great for about 9 months, then i think i overloaded it one day and it just basically fried, one of the lights stayed on and that was the only light, no others ever after reseting it. so i took it back to staples and tried the belkin router. piece of shit. then i got the linksys. not too much better, but i like cisco so i will keep it for a little bit now.
 
NEVER buy SMC. NEVER.

buy netgear. one of the new models. same goes for d-link.

and if you decided for a company, stay with them.
i have the BEST results with my d-link router, repeater and wlan pci card.
because everything is from the same company and with d-link you can activate some weird encoding that makes everything even faster... ;)
 
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