Help pick a router

[mark]

Finding having to cycle power about once a week on the old Trendnet so time for an upgrade (plus never was that stable on the kids Wii).

Though house is all wired, still looking for a good wireless router. Leaning toward the Asus RT-N56U but also considering the Linksys E3200.Thoughts?

[The Grizz]

I have a DLink in my upstairs and a Linksys on my main floor both have been flawless for me.

[syncro]

A few months ago I was looking at the Airport Express Base station and the one of the Netgear open source routers. From what I remember of the two routers - one was a bit faster with 5ghz clients and one was faster with non 5 ghz clients. The Netgear router had the advantage of open source firmware options to gain feature not included in the Netgear firmware (I am currently running two WRT54G routers with the tomato firmware).

[fishytime]

Originally Posted by syncro

A few months ago I was looking at the Airport Express Base station and the one of the Netgear open source routers. From what I remember of the two routers - one was a bit faster with 5ghz clients and one was faster with non 5 ghz clients. The Netgear router had the advantage of open source firmware options to gain feature not included in the Netgear firmware (I am currently running two WRT54G routers with the tomato firmware).

huh?

[scherzo]

Originally Posted by syncro

A few months ago I was looking at the Airport Express Base station and the one of the Netgear open source routers. From what I remember of the two routers - one was a bit faster with 5ghz clients and one was faster with non 5 ghz clients. The Netgear router had the advantage of open source firmware options to gain feature not included in the Netgear firmware (I am currently running two WRT54G routers with the tomato firmware).

I have a linksys wrt310N and have dd-wrt running. It is awesome. Similar to to the Tomato firmware.

Basically this means getting similar functionality as the 3200 in a much cheaper box. If you don't want to do the firmware swap then you can't go wrong with the 3200. I like being able to monitor the signal strength of my devices as well as monitor what is hooking up to the system.

**I forgot to say that you probably don't need the 5ghz range in the 3200 anyway because you probably don't have any 5ghz devices.

[Dez]

I have an Apple Airport. My office is half a block away from my house and when I'm at my desk I can pick up 3/4 bars of wifi from my own house. That way I don't have to pay for internet at work

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by mark

Finding having to cycle power about once a week on the old Trendnet so time for an upgrade (plus never was that stable on the kids Wii).

Though house is all wired, still looking for a good wireless router. Leaning toward the Asus RT-N56U but also considering the Linksys E3200.Thoughts?

who is your internet provider. if it is shaw.. call and get there modum/wireless router combo.. I was going through 1 router a year and all brands, linksys, belkin, asus, ect same senario would work good for a bit then I have to start cycling it more and more often. aparently there is something going on that the routers don't like with shaw but theirs works flawlessly for the last 8 months here.

Steve

[mark]

Originally Posted by StirCrazy

who is your internet provider. if it is shaw.. call and get there modum/wireless router combo.. I was going through 1 router a year and all brands, linksys, belkin, asus, ect same senario would work good for a bit then I have to start cycling it more and more often. aparently there is something going on that the routers don't like with shaw but theirs works flawlessly for the last 8 months here.

Steve

Not seeing much details on Shaw's site for their wifi modem. Looking for at least 4-Gigabit ports and though already have a NAS, like the idea of the USB port for installing USB drives for more storage, does Shaw modem have this?

Edit, from the picture see model is smc8014wn. It's 10/100 no USB.