P1Fanatic

My trusty old 3Com has decided to go into a never ending reboot cycle and no amount of power offs can even get me onto the admin page to do any further troubleshooting or have any chance to upgrade firmware etc.

So time for a new one. What are people using on here these days and would you recommend it?

Cheers,
Simon

Semper

ADSL? Cable?

P1Fanatic

Sorry ADSL needs to be Wireless and have at least 2 wired ports.

Simon

Semper

Any budget? Personally, I have a draytek 2910VG (cable router) and can't fault it at all. But it was the thick end of £170.

Money no object, go for draytek for home router IMO.

Blue by You

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For my money, and after trying 4 other well known brands of router, I'd recommend the Netgear Rangemax DG834N. Owned it for about a year now and it does just what it says on the tin.
Wireless connection through several brick walls and never misses a beat.
Retails around £110, BNIB on fleabay around £35 if you're lucky.

Kieran_Burns

iTrader: (1)

I would thoroughly recommend going for any Linksys kit.

Linksys are a division of Cisco and make for seriously high quality kit. I'm swapping my Netgear 834 for a linksys very soon

Something like:
Linksys WAG160N 300Mbps Wireless-N ADSL2+ Modem/Router

Linksys WAG54GS 54Mbps SpeedBooster Wireless ADSL2+ Modem/Router

would be fine

alcazar

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Avoid Linksys like the plague

Their after sales is crap, their stuff CONSTANTLY loses it's settings and is a NIGHTMARE to set up.

I had TWO of theirs, one binned, one taken back.

I now have a Netgear WGR614v7, and it's not set a foot wrong in 18 months.

Alcazar

P1Fanatic

Thanks for the input. Netgear is closer to my budget than Draytek tbh. Looking to spend £40-60 really.

Simon

LostUser

I use a Netgear DG834G. I always use these for home wireless installs and for friends etc.

Only £39 from Amazon. I'm sure I read this is Netgears No.1 selling ADSL router.

The only kit I would definitely stay away from is D-Link.

mike1210

doing home installs for people in the Uni where I work Linksys were a nightmare, as mentioned above they loose thier settings and were generally unreliable.
The Netgear 834G's were great just keep an eye out for firmware updates and possible issues of the firmware. Some do report they suffer overheating problems and the like but all/most home routers can be a little hit and miss.

Removed.

I've had US Robotics, Draytek, Belkin and Netgear.

USR was reliable, as was the Draytek, although a reboot every now and then was required to prevent lock-ups. Im currently running a Netgear DG384N

As for Bell-end, I mean Belkin, unreliable, unstable pile of pooh, and their support is atrocious

I recommend Netgear to friends, family, people at work, and none of them have tried to strangle me yet.

P1Fanatic

Cheers. Ordered an 834G from Amazon for £40 as I dont need the faster Wireless tbh as never do any file transfer etc that will utilise it. Must admit I preferred the looks though

Simon

jaytc2003

iTrader: (1)

thomson speedtouch 585v6 is a cracking router as well, no issues with mine had it a good few years

Graz

Got a Netgear DG834PN, pile of junk, keep having to re-boot every so often as it loses the connection, always goes wrong if I've got a decent amount of traffic going through it (e.g. BitTorrent).

Think I was unlucky to have bought one of the most unreliable router that NetGear make as the rest of the range seems pretty good by all accounts. Enough to put me off for life though.

FlightMan

I brought a Linksys 3 months ago, can't remember the model.

It's not gone wrong once, and from out of the box to running all my kit online in 10 minutes.