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    Need To Buy Most Stable Router.

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by jtay, Aug 19, 2009.

  1. jtay

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    Hey guys. Im moving into a house with five guys and not all of us have dual band supporting wireless adapters. With that being said. What is the most stable router for our house? We don't have gaming going on..well not much. Minimal use like emails and messaging and webcamming to keep in touch with home but most importantly we have online assignments and school quizzes and tests that we do NOT want to miss because of dropped signal or stuff like that. If anyone could give their 2 cents. Money is not an issue because we are splitting it 5 ways but definitely we want best bang for buck and best stability over speed. Thanks!
     
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    oops sorry moving this thread. mis placed it.
     
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    What's your budget?
     
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    um well 100-150
     
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    My Linksys WRT54G router has served me well, although, it died one time a year or two back after a few years of working flawlessly. Even though it was out of warranty, Cisco (Linksys parent company) offered to replace it for free, and shipped us a new one within a week (but during the week of no internet, I managed to survive on my neighbor's surprisingly strong network :rolleyes: ).
     
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    i was thinking dir 655 d link? any thoughts
     
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    is it backwards compatiable with b and g adapters?
     
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    Whoa, that's a huge budget for a router. Do you need wireless G and N?
     
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    yeah yeah look above. we need to do well in school with no "oops" haha
     
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    D-Link DIR-655 is an excellent router. I have one and it's worked flawlessly so far. I purchased it last year for <$100.
     
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    dlink 615 and 625 can be had for less than $50-
     
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    but they dont compare to 655 is what ive heard
     
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    Depends on the features that you need. Check out a comparison between routers and see if the features that the DIR-655 has over the others will be used.
     
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    If you're buying linksys WRT54G, it would be better to buy asus wl520Gu. It has the same chipset, a little bit better signal, cheaper price, and supports usb NAS, usb print server and everything else WRT54G can do.
     
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