Ive had enough of the D-Link router which i currently use, it has too many drop outs.

Recommend me a very good router that has an excellent transfer speed and is a lot more reliable than a D-Link.

 

Apple Airport. I use a Time Capsule and an Airport Express, both have been impeccable.

 

DrayTek imo are the best routers for the sub £300 price bracket, bar none.

 

Another vote for a timecapsule/airport express

 

Why is the airport express limited to 10 users at once? I note the Extreme can handle 50, but why are they advertising this as a main selling point?

 

Another vote for Draytek here 3 years and no major problems except the Power Supply died and had to use a universal one.

Will never touch a Netgear ever again after the issues I had with one. Did have a D-Link previous to this albeit an old 11Mbps one which was faultless, so must be the technology you get and the firmware version to make them stable.

 

Thats a non starter, i won't have any Jobsworths products

I'll take a look at the Draytek range, is their any particular wireless router i should be looking at ? Do the Draytek wireless routers come with any wireless dongles/adapters as standard ?

 

i have a linksys WRT54GL and it's rock solid, but i think it's old school now.

 

My money would go on a Vigor 2710VDn, google that and have a read, makes anything Apple do look like a toy and because it has bandwidth management, can handle more than a stupidly low 10 clients at once

 

Ive used

D-link - good
Thompson - good
Netgear x2 pile of poo

Mart

 

What about this one, is it the latest version ?

http://www.misco.co.uk/applications/...LAID=143300738

 

Billion 7800N is a fantastic router for the home user! Offers excellent wireless range, excellent ADSL compatibility thanks to the Broadcom chipset which means you might get a speed increase on your ADSL, Gigabit ports, good functionality and great reliability and support. It even has Dual WAN so you can use it on either ADSL or Cable.

Second choice would be a DrayTek 2710N series, however Billion is superior for what a home user needs.

 

2820N is a fantastic business class router, a home user doesn't need all those features though. No point in spending the money when you don't use the features.

 

Why not go for a new wireless access point rather than a router. Should be cheaper, you can swap it as technologies change and unplug it if you see a Google Street View car outside of your house

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I have way more than ten people connected to my Express regularly. I don't think it's a hard limit just a recommended number, it's only a tiny little thing you know.

 

Thats the one ive decided to go for, any ideas whats the best place to buy the wireless dongles/adapters from as i presume your using the Draytek Vigor 2710n yourself.

 

Cable or ADSL?

I would recommend an old-school Linksys WRT-54G(s) - can be modd'ed and the DD-WRT or HyperWRT firmware is a definite must

You can get them for £15-20 these days too so a bargain all in!

 

Nah, mines a 2600 series, it's years old, I will be getting the 2710, probably next month, it is an outstanding router.

As for adapters, I would imagine any decent make would do, my PCs and servers are wired in and my laptops have them built in.

They do sell them...

http://www.shop.bt.com/products/dray...product+search

I don't know if they would be any better than a £20 dongle though?

Report back how you get on with it, are you going to be using your DECT phones with it?

 

These are what i currently use with a d-link router, would they work with the Draytek Vigor 2710n or are they specific to the d-link router ?

http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/4-/336648...cat:Networking

Info from the d-link site

http://www.dlink.co.uk/cs/Satellite?...GB%2FDLWrapper

 

They will work fine mate

 

Only issue ive had with Drayteks is , if you leech from Newsgroups at mega high speeds the routers lock up , well they did when it was the 2600 and 2900s.

Unsure what there like now, I had extensive testing going on with Draytek China but they gave up in the end, But other than that Rock solid routers.

I currently have a new netgear supplied by Virgin Media think its the 2000 range of Pre N. and i had before that the common white netgear but that was utter ****e.

Been the best ive had so far never misses a beat,

Ive had the following

both BT adsl Routers N and G <<<<<<<<<< Ok but nowt special
belkin pre-N <<<<<<<<< Look nice and ran ok
netgear 835GT <<<<<<<<<< poo
netgear 2000 <<<<<<<<<< Rock Solid
Draytek Vigour 2600 Voip <<<<<<<<<< Lock up when leeching newgroups with Newsleecher
Draytek Vigour 2900 Voip <<<<<<<<<<<<<<< As above

If your not IT litrate stay away from the Vigours as there more business orientated, that being said you should be able to do it, but the Linksys etc are your bext route for easyness.

 

RoadrunnerV2

I'd never heard of Billion before..... just looking around the net they do have a very good rep. My Netgear one needs switching off every now and again

Tempted to getone ....I presume all I do is swap them over and change to a new WEP key?

Shaun

 

One thing thats putting me off the Draytek Vigor 2710n is it looks fairly complicated to set up, apparently on the model above it the 2820n that one has a quick start set up option which the 2710n doesn't appear to have, it seems like you have to put a lot of manual settings into the router and i'm not really clued up in this area.

I would have gone for the 2820n but from whats been said on here that would be overkill for normal home use.

 

Billion is good, they have been around for awhile but they don't have the same exposure as the main stream manufactures.

For initial setup, you just need your ISP details and your WEP key. However, I would suggest switching from WEP to WPA2. Main reason is because wireless-n is built-in around WPA2 (hardware accelerated). If you use WEP or WPA with wireless-n then wireless performance does take a hit. Also WPA2 is like having a castle for wireless security while WEP is like having a tent

 

To get the router up and running on your broadband won't be too difficult.

There is an old guide which will give you an idea on how it is done. http://www.draytek.co.uk/support/v2600_shooter.html ----> look from part 2 (sub 10. to sub 15.)

Latest interface is here http://www.draytek.com/.upload/Demo/...10%20V3.3.5.1/ - you go to Internet Access > PPPoE/PPPoA

 

Roadrunner

Sorry to appear thick (which I am LOL) but what ISP details ??

Shaun

 

Username / password and any other required setting which can normally be found on your ISP support page

 

Interesting, for me its:

D-link x1 - poop
Netgear x1 - good (Standard issue via Virgin media)
Linksys x1 - ok ish.
Belkin N1 vision x1 - ok but iffy (hangs if UTC server doesn't respond, but is 1Gb capeable)
Some unbranded thing (with WBR-T3 on top of it - google says its made by "Tenda") that was £18 on ebuyer x1 - Suprisingly good (I'm using it right now)