ok my router died help me pick another one.

**VenomXt** · January 24th, 2006

Titles says it all my wirless on my old LINKSYS has given up on me. Time to buy another one and as much as i use the computers in the house id like some flexibility.

Ok i Run 2 desktops and a Win 2003 server Off of hardwire.

I have two laptops that use wirless.( I use cisco aironet 350 series wirless cards for them. )

Id like some flexibility with the server side of things. I Run alot of port forwarding for p2p on the server. And i want to set up some fancy stuff with the server in the future. I reguarly RMT connect two the server too from laptop and desktops.

Ok thats what i do. Any ideas on what i would want? i can only spend tops 125 right now. Oh and i have Time warner Cable. Id kinda like to stick with LINKSYS but this death has made me a bit edgy of them. But coming from the fact that petabytes of info have moved through it. ID imagine its just old age.

Reps for your time.

Edit oh and 2 more things.
1. Iv used WEP on the old one (128 bit) & MAc filtering but the more secure the better in the city in my opinion. So im open to some new stuff there too.

2. I relize the best idea would be to take a old machine and put linux on it then hub it but a router is just so much easier. hehe

EDIT

OK because of you guys i have decided to get the WRT54G

But newegg has two of them and the more expensize one seems to be not as good What you guys think should i go with the second link or am i missing something?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16833124136

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16833124010

**X-Istence** · January 24th, 2006

Linksys WRT54G, if you want to run the Linux firmware, you have to get the Linksys WRT54GL (Special Linux edition).

That is the only router worth buying in my opinion, I have tried many other routers, and have always found them lacking, while Linksys has it's weak points, it is one of the best routers I have tried, and it still does a great service for me and my family. In total count, since I moved a server in place to count traffic from the local subnet through my server out to the router, I have counted over 10000 GB has been transferred to and from the router. This is however not a wireless router, it is one of the older BEFS models.

**falconguard** · January 24th, 2006

Use the Linksys 54g series, w/wo the speed boost it's been a great router for me handles everything I throw at it, wired and wireless plus the interface. It has WPA for more security....yada yada yada, but you know all this. Of course this is my preference, I'm sure everybody else will chime in with their own.

**VenomXt** · January 24th, 2006

got a link to the one your talking about. i found this.

Looks exactly what i have im too lazy to crawl up there and look what model it is. hehe

Any other ideas guys?>

ok i crawled up there my old one was a Wirless B BEFW1154 ver 2

Repped both of you i want as much input from all of you guys as yo will give me then i will make a few choices and od my own research hehe.

XeoNoX · January 24th, 2006

Linksys WRT54G with speedbooster, it works awsome.

**mlakrid** · January 24th, 2006

Originally Posted by falconguard

Use the Linksys 54g series, w/wo the speed boost it's been a great router for me handles everything I throw at it, wired and wireless plus the interface. It has WPA for more security....yada yada yada, but you know all this. Of course this is my preference, I'm sure everybody else will chime in with their own.

I agree on the model... but why without speedbooster?

I did a google, and found very few complaints about speedbooster messing peeps up...

**Admiral Michael** · January 24th, 2006

Just remember that you need a Linksys Speedbooster card to get the full effect. If you are using integrated wifi on a laptop and dont want to use a PCMCIA card (like me) then it's not worth it.

Also, a friend has the speedbooster version and he said its not worth it. All comes down to preference and price.

**Henyman** · January 24th, 2006

i love my linksys wag54g, but is for ADSL. presume you can get one with a cable modem in stead of an adsl modem in it.

it just works all in one, and works well.

**kcnychief** · January 25th, 2006

Bah, WRT54G or bust!

**Admiral Michael** · January 25th, 2006

LINKSYS! LINKSYS! LINKSYS!

Luna · January 25th, 2006

The WRT54G is a good router, been using it for a while. I've tried D-Link but always found them to be lacking when it came to basic thinks like port forwards (on older models)

There is also a fairly large firmware community out there designing new firmware for the router to give you even more options. http://www.sveasoft.com/

You can read more about it here http://www.sveasoft.com/modules/phpB...topic.php?t=49

Xenoboar · January 25th, 2006

A few good links to help you with your decision

Technical Autopsy of the WRT54G/Sxxx Series(www.linksysinfo.org)
Opensource/3rd party firmware(www.linksysinfo.org)

If you decide to get one and use unofficial firmware (highly recommended), be sure to read carefully into the flashing methods or else you can end up bricking the router (there are some debricking tools).

I havent personally got one of these myself, but should be getting one soon

. Good price for an abundance of features and a large opensource community. I like.

**Grandmaster** · January 25th, 2006

I was getting really crappy wireless with the WRT54G (lots of packet loss). Now I have a Netgear WPN824. Been a lot smoother since.

But I didn't have a problem with the WRT54G until I moved. It had been working really well for 3 and a half years.

You can't really go wrong with either of these.

**LeeJend** · January 25th, 2006

I have:
7 year old linksys running my network
2 year old dlink sitting in the closet collecting dust.
1 year old netgear sitting in the closet collecting dust.

That pretty much says it all.

**VenomXt** · January 25th, 2006

OK because of you guys i have decided to get the WRT54G

But newegg has two of them and the more expensize one seems to be not as good What you guys think should i go with the second link or am i missing something?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16833124136

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16833124010

**falconguard** · January 25th, 2006

Remember you will not be able to take advantage of the speed boost without a speedboost card, like Admiral Michael said. So if, you are not looking to put more money out, than the cheaper one should suffice.

If I may say so, excellent choice!

**Mainframeguy** · January 25th, 2006

If you want free - I have a WRT54G and it would only cost you shipping! I'd swap it for something like a couple of audio CDs or a DVD I do not have....

Only reason for swap is Lord does not like these, prefers our Dlink and also is itching to get a new one anyway (but he has forgotten why and until he remembers I am not parting with any £'s for replacement to our Dlink!)

So - this is a serious offer - just you may be in States and in a hurry is only problem I guess

**VenomXt** · January 25th, 2006

yah i will trade. I get back later today (going to work) We can figure out what to trade then.

**mlakrid** · January 25th, 2006

Originally Posted by VenomXt

yah i will trade. I get back later today (going to work) We can figure out what to trade then.

check the time you posted this and read your PMs and check the time I sent you the PM...

AHEM.... **taps foot impatiently**

**VenomXt** · January 25th, 2006

PMed you.

Originally Posted by Mainframeguy

If you want free - I have a WRT54G and it would only cost you shipping! I'd swap it for something like a couple of audio CDs or a DVD I do not have....

Only reason for swap is Lord does not like these, prefers our Dlink and also is itching to get a new one anyway (but he has forgotten why and until he remembers I am not parting with any £'s for replacement to our Dlink!)

So - this is a serious offer - just you may be in States and in a hurry is only problem I guess

I dont have alot of CD's DVD's anymore id be happy to trade for something else. I have alot of crap lol. Have to make a list.

January 24th, 2006	Top \| #1
VenomXt Blame me for the RAZR's Joined: March 2004 Location: Houston, Texas Posts: 3,442 Reputation: 1240 Power: 146	ok my router died help me pick another one. Titles says it all my wirless on my old LINKSYS has given up on me. Time to buy another one and as much as i use the computers in the house id like some flexibility. Ok i Run 2 desktops and a Win 2003 server Off of hardwire. I have two laptops that use wirless.( I use cisco aironet 350 series wirless cards for them. ) Id like some flexibility with the server side of things. I Run alot of port forwarding for p2p on the server. And i want to set up some fancy stuff with the server in the future. I reguarly RMT connect two the server too from laptop and desktops. Ok thats what i do. Any ideas on what i would want? i can only spend tops 125 right now. Oh and i have Time warner Cable. Id kinda like to stick with LINKSYS but this death has made me a bit edgy of them. But coming from the fact that petabytes of info have moved through it. ID imagine its just old age. Reps for your time. Edit oh and 2 more things. 1. Iv used WEP on the old one (128 bit) & MAc filtering but the more secure the better in the city in my opinion. So im open to some new stuff there too. 2. I relize the best idea would be to take a old machine and put linux on it then hub it but a router is just so much easier. hehe EDIT OK because of you guys i have decided to get the WRT54G But newegg has two of them and the more expensize one seems to be not as good What you guys think should i go with the second link or am i missing something? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16833124136 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16833124010 www.venomxt.com

January 24th, 2006	Top \| #2
X-Istence * Joined: December 2001 Location: USA Posts: 6,496 Reputation: 2808 Power: 220	Re: ok my router died help me pick another one. Linksys WRT54G, if you want to run the Linux firmware, you have to get the Linksys WRT54GL (Special Linux edition). That is the only router worth buying in my opinion, I have tried many other routers, and have always found them lacking, while Linksys has it's weak points, it is one of the best routers I have tried, and it still does a great service for me and my family. In total count, since I moved a server in place to count traffic from the local subnet through my server out to the router, I have counted over 10000 GB has been transferred to and from the router. This is however not a wireless router, it is one of the older BEFS models. An engineers technical notebook

January 24th, 2006	Top \| #3
falconguard Carbon based lifeform Joined: February 2004 Location: SoCal Posts: 3,406 Reputation: 2305 Power: 158	Re: ok my router died help me pick another one. Use the Linksys 54g series, w/wo the speed boost it's been a great router for me handles everything I throw at it, wired and wireless plus the interface. It has WPA for more security....yada yada yada, but you know all this. Of course this is my preference, I'm sure everybody else will chime in with their own.

January 24th, 2006	Top \| #4
VenomXt Blame me for the RAZR's Joined: March 2004 Location: Houston, Texas Posts: 3,442 Reputation: 1240 Power: 146	Re: ok my router died help me pick another one. got a link to the one your talking about. i found this. Looks exactly what i have im too lazy to crawl up there and look what model it is. hehe Any other ideas guys?> ok i crawled up there my old one was a Wirless B BEFW1154 ver 2 Repped both of you i want as much input from all of you guys as yo will give me then i will make a few choices and od my own research hehe. www.venomxt.com

January 24th, 2006	Top \| #5
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January 24th, 2006	Top \| #6
mlakrid OSNN BASSMASTER Joined: February 2005 Location: Land O Lakes, YES, JUST LIKE the CHEESE! Posts: 2,338 Reputation: 1410 Power: 126	Re: ok my router died help me pick another one. Originally Posted by falconguard Use the Linksys 54g series, w/wo the speed boost it's been a great router for me handles everything I throw at it, wired and wireless plus the interface. It has WPA for more security....yada yada yada, but you know all this. Of course this is my preference, I'm sure everybody else will chime in with their own. I agree on the model... but why without speedbooster? I did a google, and found very few complaints about speedbooster messing peeps up... Quote: "Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity." R.I.P. the best comedian of our time; GEORGE CARLIN.

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Admiral Michael Michaelsoft Systems CEO Joined: February 2003 Location: Hamilton, Ontario Canada Earth Posts: 3,125 Blog Entries: 8 Reputation: 2216 Power: 166	Re: ok my router died help me pick another one. Just remember that you need a Linksys Speedbooster card to get the full effect. If you are using integrated wifi on a laptop and dont want to use a PCMCIA card (like me) then it's not worth it. Also, a friend has the speedbooster version and he said its not worth it. All comes down to preference and price. Apple MacBook Pro Intel Quad-Core i7 2GHz \| Corsair 8GB 1333MHz DDR3 Memory \| WD 750GB 7200RPM Black Edition SATA Hard Drive \| Intel HD Graphics 3000/AMD Radeon HD 6490M 256MB GDDR5 \| 15.4" LED backlit glossy screen @ 1440x900 \| Dual Band Airport Wireless/Bluetooth \| Gigabit Ethernet \| Thunderbolt I/O \| Built-in Webcam \| Backlit Keyboard \| Firewire 800 \| DVDRW \| OS X Lion 10.7.1 My Site \| My DVD Collection \| Your Chevrolet Guy

January 24th, 2006	Top \| #8
Henyman Secret Goat Fetish Joined: June 2002 Location: Dorset, England Posts: More Than You Posts: 9,602 Reputation: 3548 Power: 253	Re: ok my router died help me pick another one. i love my linksys wag54g, but is for ADSL. presume you can get one with a cable modem in stead of an adsl modem in it. it just works all in one, and works well. http://Henyman.com

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Admiral Michael Michaelsoft Systems CEO Joined: February 2003 Location: Hamilton, Ontario Canada Earth Posts: 3,125 Blog Entries: 8 Reputation: 2216 Power: 166	Re: ok my router died help me pick another one. LINKSYS! LINKSYS! LINKSYS! Apple MacBook Pro Intel Quad-Core i7 2GHz \| Corsair 8GB 1333MHz DDR3 Memory \| WD 750GB 7200RPM Black Edition SATA Hard Drive \| Intel HD Graphics 3000/AMD Radeon HD 6490M 256MB GDDR5 \| 15.4" LED backlit glossy screen @ 1440x900 \| Dual Band Airport Wireless/Bluetooth \| Gigabit Ethernet \| Thunderbolt I/O \| Built-in Webcam \| Backlit Keyboard \| Firewire 800 \| DVDRW \| OS X Lion 10.7.1 My Site \| My DVD Collection \| Your Chevrolet Guy

January 25th, 2006	Top \| #11
Luna OSNN Senior Addict Joined: January 2004 Location: Houston, Tx Posts: 303 Reputation: 359 Power: 109	Re: ok my router died help me pick another one. The WRT54G is a good router, been using it for a while. I've tried D-Link but always found them to be lacking when it came to basic thinks like port forwards (on older models) There is also a fairly large firmware community out there designing new firmware for the router to give you even more options. http://www.sveasoft.com/ You can read more about it here http://www.sveasoft.com/modules/phpB...topic.php?t=49

January 25th, 2006	Top \| #12
Xenoboar OSNN Junior Addict Joined: March 2004 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 7 Reputation: 0 Power: 100	Re: ok my router died help me pick another one. A few good links to help you with your decision Technical Autopsy of the WRT54G/Sxxx Series(www.linksysinfo.org) Opensource/3rd party firmware(www.linksysinfo.org) If you decide to get one and use unofficial firmware (highly recommended), be sure to read carefully into the flashing methods or else you can end up bricking the router (there are some debricking tools). I havent personally got one of these myself, but should be getting one soon . Good price for an abundance of features and a large opensource community. I like.

January 25th, 2006	Top \| #13
Grandmaster Electronica Addict Joined: February 2002 Location: Santa Clara, CA Posts: 10,574 Reputation: 2960 Power: 260	Re: ok my router died help me pick another one. I was getting really crappy wireless with the WRT54G (lots of packet loss). Now I have a Netgear WPN824. Been a lot smoother since. But I didn't have a problem with the WRT54G until I moved. It had been working really well for 3 and a half years. You can't really go wrong with either of these.

January 25th, 2006	Top \| #14
LeeJend OSNN Veteran Addict Joined: January 2003 Location: Fort Worth, TX Posts: 5,261 Reputation: 3386 Power: 199	Re: ok my router died help me pick another one. I have: 7 year old linksys running my network 2 year old dlink sitting in the closet collecting dust. 1 year old netgear sitting in the closet collecting dust. That pretty much says it all. Thought for the new millenium: In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates? - Open Office - Firefox - Thunderbird - Gimp -Ubuntu - Red Hat -

January 25th, 2006	Top \| #15
VenomXt Blame me for the RAZR's Joined: March 2004 Location: Houston, Texas Posts: 3,442 Reputation: 1240 Power: 146	Re: ok my router died help me pick another one. OK because of you guys i have decided to get the WRT54G But newegg has two of them and the more expensize one seems to be not as good What you guys think should i go with the second link or am i missing something? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16833124136 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16833124010 www.venomxt.com

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falconguard Carbon based lifeform Joined: February 2004 Location: SoCal Posts: 3,406 Reputation: 2305 Power: 158	Re: ok my router died help me pick another one. Remember you will not be able to take advantage of the speed boost without a speedboost card, like Admiral Michael said. So if, you are not looking to put more money out, than the cheaper one should suffice. If I may say so, excellent choice!

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VenomXt Blame me for the RAZR's Joined: March 2004 Location: Houston, Texas Posts: 3,442 Reputation: 1240 Power: 146	Re: ok my router died help me pick another one. yah i will trade. I get back later today (going to work) We can figure out what to trade then. www.venomxt.com

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mlakrid OSNN BASSMASTER Joined: February 2005 Location: Land O Lakes, YES, JUST LIKE the CHEESE! Posts: 2,338 Reputation: 1410 Power: 126	Re: ok my router died help me pick another one. Originally Posted by VenomXt yah i will trade. I get back later today (going to work) We can figure out what to trade then. check the time you posted this and read your PMs and check the time I sent you the PM... AHEM.... taps foot impatiently Quote: "Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity." R.I.P. the best comedian of our time; GEORGE CARLIN.

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VenomXt Blame me for the RAZR's Joined: March 2004 Location: Houston, Texas Posts: 3,442 Reputation: 1240 Power: 146	Re: ok my router died help me pick another one. PMed you. Originally Posted by Mainframeguy If you want free - I have a WRT54G and it would only cost you shipping! I'd swap it for something like a couple of audio CDs or a DVD I do not have.... Only reason for swap is Lord does not like these, prefers our Dlink and also is itching to get a new one anyway (but he has forgotten why and until he remembers I am not parting with any £'s for replacement to our Dlink!) So - this is a serious offer - just you may be in States and in a hurry is only problem I guess I dont have alot of CD's DVD's anymore id be happy to trade for something else. I have alot of crap lol. Have to make a list. www.venomxt.com