New Router needed

[FiReSTaRT]

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Would this help?
http://www.netgear.com/home/products/wirelessrouters/high-performance/WNDR3700.aspx

Hellz yeah.. I prefer v1 as it has better wireless than v2. The only "benefit" to v2 is that it has more flash memory, which is pretty much useless past a certain point. I just offered another working solution that's half price in comparison. Half-performance too, but they aren't building an in-apartment data center.

 

[Akshun]

or better yet......
http://canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=27_365&item_id=038664
Good for streaming HD within your home network. I had to update my switch as well.

 

[jeero]

Tell your room mate to sell his Mac and buy a PC. He will have extra money in his pocket at the end of it.
It's a win, win, win solution.
You don't have to change router, he stops losing connection and he has extra cash.

 

[lil sushi]

Tell your room mate to sell his Mac and buy a PC. He will have extra money in his pocket at the end of it.
It's a win, win, win solution.
You don't have to change router, he stops losing connection and he has extra cash.

LOL...#winning

 

[vrus]

Those macbooks are stubborn, eh?

http://ca.asus.com/en/Networks/Wireless_Routers/WL520gU/

This is what I bought so that my sis and I can live in peace. Had to go through dlink and linksys before I found one that works.

 

[FiReSTaRT]

Seriously? Who gives a **** about the chipset?! We've been over this, nobody here has the technical aptitude to understand what the correlation is nor will their internet connection exceed the router's power if they're watching youtube or checking e-mail. Plus what is the point? You keep repeating yourself about the mother****ing chipset! Are you just spouting some **** off that you read somewhere or you overheard someone say? Is that the only part of the router you know? Anyone with half a clue and really uses the consumer level routers beyond their actual capabilities will move on to a SMB router or an open source linux solution.

1) I am basing this on observed differences in wireless signal quality, and not just by myself. Bcm plays nicer with bcm than it does with ath and ath plays nicer with ath than it does with bcm. Won't make a difference in most households but it looks like it will in the OP's. Her roommate's Atheros-based wireless adapter keeps droppin connections with a Broadcom-based wireless router.

2) As for knowing routers.. I have also talked about CPU clock speed (mostly determining the number of connections the router can handle, the top NAT bandwidth and which other packages it can run. I've talked about the RAM (also determining the number and complexity of packages) and flash memory size (how complex the fw can get and how many additional packages it can take). The fw itself also matters.

3) Why would a typical household run an open-source Linux solution on a big, noisy, power-thirsty blade when you can run it on a cheap, small, quiet and power-efficient embedded system? You have Linux-based Tomato for beginners and OpenWRT for more advanced users. Hell, even Netgear people dumbed down OpenWRT and are running their own remix on WNDR3700.

4) A more apt analogy is having a car mechanic explain to an airplane mechanic why he needs to replace the clutch on his Miata.

 

[mongol777]

Dude.. That's like saying that a Yamaha, any Yamaha will meet a particular rider's needs. There's a difference between an R1 and a Virago. Same goes for routers.. You need to look at the wireless chipset, at the CPU, RAM, flash memory.. They are literally mini-computers. Ironically there is a Netgear at the top of my list as well (WNDR3700).. 680MHz (monster by consumer router standards), 64MB of RAM, dual band wireless. In the 120-130+HST ballpark. The 5GHz band is less prone to interference, but it has less obstacle-penetrating power.

To save a few bucks, I'd probably recommend a TP Link TL1043ND ($70 ballpark) and a directional antenna. Also Atheros-based, 400MHz/32MB of RAM. It just depends on the wireless chipset of the client devices.

I am personally using an ASUS RT-N16, with 480MHz CPU and 128MB of RAM, Broadcom chipset, $90 range. I have owned and/or worked on all 3 and quite a few other routers, so I know my stuff when it comes to consumer gear.

Dude, I've been working IT all my life. My advice is to go to BB or FS, buy several netgear routers and try them. Return the ones u don't like. Life is too short to mess around with custom firmware, etc. Home router is now an appliance and nothing more. I'd rather ride then tinker with my home router. If it was winter - sure, I'd look at the chipset, etc.

I did not go through the whole thread yet but looks like OP made a choice and moved from solid IT to BA. So why would she want waste her time tinkering with appliance?

 

[reciprocity]

Dude, I've been working IT all my life. My advice is to go to BB or FS, buy several netgear routers and try them. Return the ones u don't like. Life is too short to mess around with custom firmware, etc. Home router is now an appliance and nothing more. I'd rather ride then tinker with my home router. If it was winter - sure, I'd look at the chipset, etc.

I did not go through the whole thread yet but looks like OP made a choice and moved from solid IT to BA. So why would she want waste her time tinkering with appliance?

Finally, someone gets it.

 

[lil sushi]

Finally, someone gets it.

*points at her nose with one finger and at Reciprocity and Mongol777 with the other*

 

[mongol777]

*points at her nose with one finger and at Reciprocity and Mongol777 with the other*

haha - you are welcome

 

[reciprocity]

haha - you are welcome

you don't know where those fingers have been.

 

[mongol777]

you don't know where those fingers have been.

Well, she is only pointing - not trying to finger us

 

[reciprocity]

Well, she is only pointing - not trying to finger us

That's what you think.

 

[mongol777]

That's what you think.

OMG, it is so going to trash talk. Can someone pls smell the pointing finger?

 

[nfq]

Dude, I've been working IT all my life. My advice is to go to BB or FS, buy several netgear routers and try them. Return the ones u don't like. Life is too short to mess around with custom firmware, etc. Home router is now an appliance and nothing more. I'd rather ride then tinker with my home router. If it was winter - sure, I'd look at the chipset, etc.

I did not go through the whole thread yet but looks like OP made a choice and moved from solid IT to BA. So why would she want waste her time tinkering with appliance?

Finally, someone gets it.

*points at her nose with one finger and at Reciprocity and Mongol777 with the other*

Couldn't agree more.

sidenote: What is it about IT that has a lot of people ride? At my work half the service desk ride motorcycles.

 

[lil sushi]

OMG, it is so going to trash talk. Can someone pls smell the pointing finger?

BA HAHAHAHAHA!!!....

It smells like rainbows and unicorns thank you very much....Please keep in mind that I'm a lady...even after I finger f*** a girl...I'll still wash my hands and purell...

Thanks for reading *squishy hugs*

 

[TwistedKestrel]

I still like to run Linksys routers with DD-WRT firmware. I have a ... WRT610N, I think? I tried using the stock firmware for a while but it was crap, it kept dropping my iPhone for some reason (maybe related to what your roommate is going though). Loading DD-WRT is super easy these days - once you flash it, it requires no special fiddling beside what you would normally have to configure on a router. After I did that I've had no problems at all.

Yes, in theory routers should just work - so far in my experience DD-WRT is more reliable than anything out of the box, on Broadcom hardware.

 

[mongol777]

BA HAHAHAHAHA!!!....

It smells like rainbows and unicorns thank you very much....Please keep in mind that I'm a lady...even after I finger f*** a girl...I'll still wash my hands and purell...

Thanks for reading *squishy hugs*

I know that you are a girl - I would never ask anyone to smell men's finger, that's just gross

 

[lil sushi]

I know that you are a girl - I would never ask anyone to smell men's finger, that's just gross

*scratches head*...hmmm...ok...lol...i figure you knew i was a girl from my sig..

 

[mongol777]

Nope, not from the sig - from your bike knocked over thread

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