Author Topic: Please recommend gigabit wired / wireless N router  (Read 5817 times)

nazrix

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Please recommend gigabit wired / wireless N router
« on: September 01, 2010, 11:48:05 PM »
Am moving to new house, will add CAT6 wiring around house and want to get good gigabit (1000/100/10) and wireless N router. Please recommend a good one, it will be on 24/7/365 and usage will include torrenting.

Would it be better to get separate routers for wired and wireless?

kitsuna

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Re: Please recommend gigabit wired / wireless N router
« Reply #1 on: September 02, 2010, 06:34:39 AM »
asus rt-n16 (ram=128mb, flash=32mb) = rm 399
linksys wrt320n (ram=32mb, flash=8mb) = rm 375
buffalo wzr-hp-g300nh (ram=64mb, flash=32mb) = rm 259
tp-link tl-wr1043nd (ram=32, flash=8mb) = rm 189

all can run dd-wrt

nazrix

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Re: Please recommend gigabit wired / wireless N router
« Reply #2 on: September 03, 2010, 04:33:51 PM »
Thank you, i will take a look :)

nazrix

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Re: Please recommend gigabit wired / wireless N router
« Reply #3 on: September 03, 2010, 04:43:05 PM »
By the way, which would you recommend?

kitsuna

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Re: Please recommend gigabit wired / wireless N router
« Reply #4 on: September 03, 2010, 07:20:37 PM »
if you want just plain router usage, go for tp-link
but if you want more features, go for buffalo or asus
both support usb drive and can run as file sharing center (never tested though) = http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/USB_storage

nazrix

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Re: Please recommend gigabit wired / wireless N router
« Reply #5 on: September 10, 2010, 06:14:34 PM »
Got the Linksys WRT320N. It was crap until flashed with DD-WRT. Now seems to run fine. Thanks meh :)

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Re: Please recommend gigabit wired / wireless N router
« Reply #6 on: September 10, 2010, 09:50:55 PM »
unless you guys are doing some serious work like a centralized massive file server for video / network intensive activity, else i don't see how would 5 computers benefit from a gigabit network :D
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nazrix

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Re: Please recommend gigabit wired / wireless N router
« Reply #7 on: September 11, 2010, 01:19:49 AM »
Well, there are benefits, mostly when backing up which sometimes involves big files (emails especially). I also have a NAS and plan to get another as backup (RAID5 is fine for redundancy but better safe than sorry). Nightly backups would take a lot less time with CAT6+gigabit switch. Gigabit routers are cheap enough nowadays. Of course, it all depends on your usage :)