o/t Recommend a decent wireless router for me.

[Dale]

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,

[Jim-D]

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?)

[Dale]

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.

[happybhoy]

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

[weller001]

Vigor 2800G

www.draytek.co.uk

[lazaroonie]

I have to say that I am  very much impressed with the new bt home hub.

[thetank]

Agrre there

When I used BT's stuff, it didn't go wrong on me even once in over 12 months.

telewest are pisch

[tikay]

Two Scots agreeing? I'm not having this......

[bolt pp]

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.

[tikay]

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?

[Dale]

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.

[lazaroonie]

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.

[kinboshi]

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  ).

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!!   


(sorry my story doesn't help at all, but just shows that wireless is the invention of Loki)

[bolt pp]

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

[tikay]

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.....