I'm looking to implement a wireless solution to my Virgin Cable modem setup. Thought i would ask the views of those who have experience in this. So here is what i am trying to achieve The wireless router must be able to connect via a network cable to the cable modem Wireless setup has to be wpa or better and if there is an option of a multi setup to WEP (for the DS) then that would be usefull. A few ports are required on the router to cater for network connectivity for a couple of desktop machines. I think that basically covers it. I live in the UK so that might influence your recommendations for postage etc. Someone mentioned the Netgear Cable / DSL 54Mbps Wireless Router - WGR614 as it also has some form parental content filtering. Usefull but not essential. http://www.blueunplugged.com/p.aspx?p=115970 is the link but i'm sure there are newer / better models out there? Thanks in advance p.s. apolgies if i posted in wrong forum but this is probably the most appropiate place
I like the Cisco brand for their fast throughput speed. The wireless has the same speed as the cable connection. Linksys WRT54G2 is a good one.
See my signature for a few hints at routers that can be bought on eBay (for example) quite cheaply, and can be fairly easily made into much more useful routers if you put DD-WRT firmware on them. This part caught my eye especially. A few of my routers are capable of this, and i have recently tweaked my WRT54GS v6 to do this very thing - WPA2/AES on the normal physical interface, and WEP on a virtual, secondary interface. The best part of this is that the virtual interface is completely isolated from the internal network so you're safe from any idiots who think it's fun to (very easily) crack your WEP password. The only thing the virtual interface can do is ping the router itself, it can't access it nor the rest of the network (all it can do is get out to the internet). You have to ensure that you buy the correct model of router for BSSID functionality - very important as not all routers have the correct chipsets to run BSSID's. I can summarise if you like but have a read thru my posts on the last 2 pages of this thread ~ http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=39240&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=135 if details are your thing And here's an excellent tutorial on "multiple BSSID's" ~ http://www.pennock.nl/dd-wrt/Multiple_BSSIDs.html - see the section in there re corerev's of router models, that's the key thing that determines whether or not you can run BSSID's. That tutorial is discussed heavily in the DD-WRT thread i linked to.
Cisco is total junk...the same as LinkSys. The super-high-end Cisco units are nicer, but they are still very unreliable, made with VERY low quality parts. 3Com makes good routers.
For the 3rd time now, yes, 3Com do make good routers, but saying that all Linksys routers are junk (that an amazing amount of people out there still use - and have you never heard of DD-WRT - obviously not; my point about DD-WRT is purely that there's a huge following with DD-WRT and i certainly don't see huge amounts of junk routers there, some do fail due to old age but not from being junk as you call them) is just your opinion. Now if you stopped generalising then maybe your comments would (maybe) mean something. Though i've answered two of your 'All Linksys are crap' posts and instead you ignore those comments and post the same comments here. Feel free to ignore my reply here too.
