A NOT Shitty Wireless Router? Anyone?

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tobsn said:
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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tobsn coming in to mess everything up. :error:

first of all, i will NEVER purchase d-link ever again. one year i purchased approx. 3 products in a row that just out-and-out FAILED on me. id open the box and shit wouldnt work. 3 in a row. never again.


ps - eli posts about vlsi schematics and #s as to why you should buy SMC. you post 'NEVAR' care to elaborate ;)
 


i tried 3 different SMC and all failed on serving the signal in our house.
i live in german, we have solid walls not those papermache walls you have over there hehe... :p
so it really had not enough power. but the d-link did a good job especily in combination with the repeater... with SMC i got like 10% signal from the floor under me, now im getting 80% from the router and of course 100% from the repeater who is sending 60% up to the 3th level... ;)
 
signal loss has much more to do with the antenna and its db range and environmental variables than it does with the actual router. The smc I linked to has a 15db antenna. The most expensive dlink router comes with only 3 7db antennas(no that doesn't add up to 21db), which multi antennas helps with signal loss through a bad environment but won't help with range. But more importantly, if you're having signal problems its much more economical to just upgrade your antenna. Should be done anyways, unless of course it already comes with a good 15db antenna :)
 
Deliguy said:
signal loss has much more to do with the antenna and its db range and environmental variables than it does with the actual router. The smc I linked to has a 15db antenna. The most expensive dlink router comes with only 3 7db antennas(no that doesn't add up to 21db), which multi antennas helps with signal loss through a bad environment but won't help with range. But more importantly, if you're having signal problems its much more economical to just upgrade your antenna. Should be done anyways, unless of course it already comes with a good 15db antenna :)
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we changed the antenna(s)... nothing worked... i guess there was somthing wrong with the smc.

with all 3 of them.
 
I'd suggest heading to smoothwall.org and installing their free customized linux onto an old pentium class box with 2 NICs and a wireless access point if you want to do wireless.

your ethernet goes in and goes out the second NIC into your switch.

It's got routing, firewall and some other technical stuff bundled with it, and on a 128mb ram and pentium machine can support about 1,000 concurrent connections.

some of the heavy duty users have compared its performance to a $5,000 cisco enterprise-grade router
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most off the shelf stuff consumer routers will have about 8mb ram and the equivalent of a 486 processor on it, so when you do heavy duty torrents, it crashes the firmware.

if you've a linksys wrt54g router, you can check which version it is. if it's v1-v4 it can be flashed pretty easily to one of the third party firmwares.

if you're at v6 or v7, you're kinda screwed.


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the other alternative is not to seed/leech 100 torrents at a time...
 
andrew wee said:
if you've a linksys wrt54g router, you can check which version it is. if it's v1-v4 it can be flashed pretty easily to one of the third party firmwares.

if you're at v6 or v7, you're kinda screwed.


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the other alternative is not to seed/leech 100 torrents at a time...
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QFT. I had a V3 for the longest time flashed with some killer firmware but it finally died last year. I packed it up in the box and took it back to Wal-Mart and got a V6 and learned that I couldn't do the same to it. I installed the latest Linksys FW and it has worked pretty well for me ever since. *knock on wood.* But I don't DL from torrents very much. Maybe once a month, if that.
 
You might like to check out NetLimiter which is a handy bandwidth metering app.

You can throttle down your torrent upstream or downstream to let the email or FTP get through, or adjust the bandwidth within yr torrent client.
 
I recommend a Linksys WRT54GL with DD-WRT installed. Have been running that well over a year with no issues. It is the version made specifically for those wanting to add third party firmware.
 
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