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Title: o/t Recommend a decent wireless router for me. Post by: Dale on February 13, 2007, 08:29:37 PM Could you guys recommend me a good adsl wireless router?
The one I use just now cuts me off briefly every couple of hours or so, so no good for playing poker as cuttiing out mid session sends me on hyper tilt !!! I bought a £20 antena for my wireless card on the PC but makes no diff. That's why i ended up using a cat5 cable instead. But now i'm moving flat and will have the PC in another room which doesn't have a phone port. So I guess it's just a crap router I have, (it's a Belkin F5D7632-4, so you might want to avoid that one). Any suggestions for a good router or any tips to get as stable a wireless connection as possible? edit: F5D7632-4 not F3D7632-4, Title: Re: o/t Recommend a decent wireless router for me. Post by: Jim-D on February 13, 2007, 08:41:20 PM Could you guys recommend me a good adsl wireless router? The one I use just now cuts me off briefly every couple of hours or so, so no good for playing poker as cuttiing out mid session sends me on hyper tilt !!! I bought a £20 antena for my wireless card on the PC but makes no diff. That's why i ended up using a cat5 cable instead. But now i'm moving flat and will have the PC in another room which doesn't have a phone port. So I guess it's just a crap router I have, (it's a Belkin FSD7632-4, so you might want to avoid that one). Any suggestions for a good router or any tips to get as stable a wireless connection as possible? I use a Belkin F5D7632-4 and havent had a problem in nearly 12 months (is yours a F5 or FS?) Title: Re: o/t Recommend a decent wireless router for me. Post by: Dale on February 13, 2007, 08:47:10 PM sorry, its the same one as yours.
damn :( if it's not the router then maybe the pci card in my PC but i thought that was the unlikeliest thing after the antena and router. Title: Re: o/t Recommend a decent wireless router for me. Post by: happybhoy on February 13, 2007, 08:50:38 PM Netgear do good quality stuff.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Netgear-DG834G-54Mbps-Wireless-Firewall/dp/B0000TZ8Z8/sr=8-1/qid=1171399904/ref=pd_ka_1/203-8790950-4468706?ie=UTF8&s=electronics (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Netgear-DG834G-54Mbps-Wireless-Firewall/dp/B0000TZ8Z8/sr=8-1/qid=1171399904/ref=pd_ka_1/203-8790950-4468706?ie=UTF8&s=electronics) Title: Re: o/t Recommend a decent wireless router for me. Post by: weller001 on February 13, 2007, 09:03:03 PM Vigor 2800G
www.draytek.co.uk Title: Re: o/t Recommend a decent wireless router for me. Post by: lazaroonie on February 13, 2007, 09:05:15 PM I have to say that I am very much impressed with the new bt home hub.
Title: Re: o/t Recommend a decent wireless router for me. Post by: thetank on February 13, 2007, 09:25:48 PM Agrre there
When I used BT's stuff, it didn't go wrong on me even once in over 12 months. telewest are pisch Title: Re: o/t Recommend a decent wireless router for me. Post by: tikay on February 13, 2007, 09:30:24 PM Two Scots agreeing? I'm not having this......
Title: Re: o/t Recommend a decent wireless router for me. Post by: bolt pp on February 13, 2007, 09:35:32 PM I have to say that I am very much impressed with the new bt home hub. My mate is not loving his one, its stopped working twice and hes only had it a couple of weeks. Title: Re: o/t Recommend a decent wireless router for me. Post by: tikay on February 13, 2007, 09:38:57 PM I have to say that I am very much impressed with the new bt home hub. My mate is not loving his one, its stopped working twice and hes only had it a couple of weeks. This is getting silly. You have Mates - plural? Title: Re: o/t Recommend a decent wireless router for me. Post by: Dale on February 13, 2007, 09:42:08 PM looking at the customer reviews on amazon, for each product there is a list of people giving each router 5 stars saying that they've never had a problem then for the same ones others giving it 1 star saying connection drops etc.
consumer nightmare. Title: Re: o/t Recommend a decent wireless router for me. Post by: lazaroonie on February 13, 2007, 09:42:55 PM Agrre there When I used BT's stuff, it didn't go wrong on me even once in over 12 months. telewest are pisch i can only go on personal experience. and from unplugging the 3com officeconnect one, to plugging in the BTHH I had gained about 2meg in speed. And it has never fallen over since i got it. Title: Re: o/t Recommend a decent wireless router for me. Post by: kinboshi on February 13, 2007, 09:49:49 PM I've had so many issues with my wireless router (a Buffalo one, and my Internet connection is via ntl), that I gave up trying to get it to work and got a homeplug thingy instead (the wireless router was interfering with my video sender - although not linking up with my PC ;grr; ).
Some 3 months later (this evening), I get home, switch on my laptop and 'bingo' - the wireless connection is miraculously working! I didn't do a thing. It's been working perfectly all night now... Bloody computers!! ;technophobe; (sorry my story doesn't help at all, but just shows that wireless is the invention of Loki) Title: Re: o/t Recommend a decent wireless router for me. Post by: bolt pp on February 13, 2007, 09:51:16 PM I have to say that I am very much impressed with the new bt home hub. My mate is not loving his one, its stopped working twice and hes only had it a couple of weeks. This is getting silly. You have Mates - plural? "mate" singular not plural!! I wouldn't claim to have more than one friend, it discredits the believability of the story!! Give these guys a try, I've had a browse through their site for you and they do a free check up for over 65s but they do go on to say: "anyone over the age of 90 shouldn't be reading, instead just stay indoors and stop bothering the outside world", but you can pass for 83-84 no probs!! www.visionexpress.com Title: Re: o/t Recommend a decent wireless router for me. Post by: tikay on February 13, 2007, 09:52:34 PM I have to say that I am very much impressed with the new bt home hub. My mate is not loving his one, its stopped working twice and hes only had it a couple of weeks. This is getting silly. You have Mates - plural? "mate" singular not plural!! I wouldn't claim to have more than one friend, it discredits the believability of the story!! Give these guys a try, I've had a browse through their site for you and they do a free check up for over 65s but they do go on to say: "anyone over the age of 90 shouldn't be reading, instead just stay indoors and stop bothering the outside world", but you can pass for 83-84 no probs!! www.visionexpress.com Rumbled..... |