Looking for a Wireless Router


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Hi all,

I am looking for a new router to replace my crappy La Fonera. I am taking budget and value in to concideration. I don't think I need N-draft, becuase i have no devices that use N.

I need a router that:

-has VERY good range...my router will be in the basement, therefore i need RANGE.

-decent speed

-VPN passthrough

-QOS would be good

-any common useful features :p

So if theres any router you recommend, let me know! :)

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About your basement, if its got heavy brick or cement walls (including the ceiling) it will degrade the signal of any router. Wood, and sheetrock/plaster generally isn't a problem. Another thing to note is that if your wi-fi card doesn't put out a strong enough signal, it won't help how good the signal from the router is.

I suggest the LINKSYS WRT54GL + Tomato (or DD-WRT) firmware. Mostly because of the features the Tomato firmware offers.

The Netgear WGR614L now also supports custom firmware.

I do torrents and downloads on it. (Use Firefox)

The speed depends on your modem's speed. I have it connected upstairs in my room, I can be at the opposite of the house downstairs, and still get fast internet speeds.

Just be sure to add WEP/WPA

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It's a tomato you squeeze into the router! :laugh:

No, its a firmware that you put into it, and gives you more options than the default Linksys firmware.

same for DD-WRT

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It is unclear if you are after a router that also includes an ADSL modem. Thought that I would mention (if this is the case) that you make sure it is IPv6 compatible. It is currently expected that IPv4 addresses will have been exhausted by 2011. If you buy an IPv4 router, you will likely need to buy an IPv6 compatible router by 2011.

See Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4_address_exhaustion

Quite disturbing really, it will likely cost the entire world a lot of money (who knows it may be as big as the millenium bug)

  mattking said:
It is unclear if you are after a router that also includes an ADSL modem. Thought that I would mention (if this is the case) that you make sure it is IPv6 compatible. It is currently expected that IPv4 addresses will have been exhausted by 2011. If you buy an IPv4 router, you will likely need to buy an IPv6 compatible router by 2011.

See Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4_address_exhaustion

Quite disturbing really, it will likely cost the entire world a lot of money (who knows it may be as big as the millenium bug)

Most current (in fact, a long list of legacy) routers are indeed IPv6-capable (if not with stock firmware, then with custom firmware). I switched from the stock firmware for my WRT54GS to DD-WRT *because* of the IPv6 support that DD-WRT includes. (I bought my GS in 2005.) The biggest hurdles with IPv6 are further up the chain from the typical home/family LAN. (Windows XP has supported IPv6 since SP1, Linux has supported IPv6 since the adoption of the 2.6 series of kernels, and Vista supports IPv6 natively, as does OS X 10.4.x (Tiger) and 10.5.x (Leopard); on the server side, Windows Server 2003 added IPv6 support via R2, and Server 2008 supports IPv6 natively.)

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