router opinion

Looking at the 3 but leaning towards the Netgear then the linksys

I just got a cable modem up from what I had and that was DSL from verizon cheapo service



Netgear WNDR3700
Linksys WRT610N
Apple Airport Extream MB763LL/A

 

Cheap, reliable, decent range - WRT54G

 

thanks I have it with dd-wrt I want to upgrade not downgrade

 

Duh lol, I missed your list at the bottom of your post. I thought you just wanted any suggestion. Sorry.

 

I only want an opinon of what's in the thread

Thanks anyway

 

Im currently reading APC magazine October which has a wifi shootout article

Apple Airport Extreme - 9/10 ($279AU)
DLink DIR-855 - 8/10 ($480AU)
Linksys WRT610N - 8/10 ($400AU)
Netgear WNDR3300 - 7/10 ($249AU)

The Airport was the editors choice because it had good performance at both 2.4ghz and 5ghz band at long ranges which was a con for the other competing routers. The only con they wrote for the airport was 'it only has 3 ethernet ports'.

 

I have both the one's in red. DLink has slightly better throughput speed, Linksys has slightly better range.
I might try the Airport even though I don't buy Apple products generally, because the other two suck when it comes to 5 ghz band range, compared to 2.4 ghz. But both my laptops are in the same room as the router, so not a deal breaker.
Otherwise I like them both a lot, not one appreciably over the other.

 

I would either go for Netgear or Linksys. I have tried Dlink before and it often crashes. Apple isn't reliable either for routers. Its either of the first two.
Good luck

 

I also had a dlink and hated it , it was the 4300 DLG gamer it it was really bad

 

I have the Netgear 3700 and am very pleased with the performance. Upgraded recently from a single band Netgear N. Now I have 2 separate bands. I use the 5.0 with a downstream from the router at 300mb/s and others use the 2.4 at 130 (can be set for faster).

 

how exactly do you make the choices of what uses what? is there software for all computers ?

 

If you need just range the new Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH. According to Smallnetbuilder it has the best range. http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/content/view/30889/96/

 

i have a wrt 600n and i just installed a wndr3700 , it blows the 600n away , get 262 Mbps speeds with 95%-100% signal strength where 600 gave me 108Mbps and 60% signal .
No dead spots at all , had a few in the basement before , internet download speeds have gone up as well . So far best router I have ever used , great signal , great features , and not dropped in 4 days now . 2 guest networks are a good idea as well . Just hope it lasts .

 

A real upgrade would be Cisco ASR 871

 

Netgear is very reliable.

 

That might as well be a joke.
Maybe you had a Netgear that lasted, but Netgear is a low end, cheap brand. They're not reliable.

 

I have no issue with cheap brand or model. My $20 TP-Link 54M Wireless Router TL-WR340G works perfectly for our home, supporting macbook, sony, gateway, tohsiba connecting wireless-ly at the same time.

cheers ...

 

The Airport Extreme can support a lot of configuration options such as dynamic WDS with another airport extreme/express. You can also get an airport express as well if your interested in Airtunes and using the Ethernet WAN port to allow Ethernet clients.. ( for computers that can only go online via ethernet. ) In addition the extreme has "Dual Bands" Essentially you would have 3 networks in total from one router. One network would be the primary while the other would be the guest network. Also you could enable a separate '5 Ghz network only' on top of the other networks. 5 Ghz radio band is decent for high bandwidth but is horrible for range.

Linksys is a decent router too.