So, We have a 4-port wireless router at home. Except one of the ports doesn’t work at all. So, really, we have a 3-port wireless router. Except the wireless is pretty flakey. Okay, so we have a 3-port router at home. Except my port was being flaky. I swapped it with
Time to go hardware shopping. Does linksys usually suck this much? Who makes better routers?
[ETA: Woohoo! 19″ lcd monitors for less than $300? Who cares about the absence of flying cars, yay for teh future.]
Netgear is good. Linksys is known to be utter crap.but it’s cheap.
I bought a linksys BEFW11S4 wireless router and it gave me lots of problems; it would work for an hour or two then totally freeze up. I exchanged it for another of the same model, and it had the same problems. I searched online for reviews and found it to be a totally unreliable piece of crap that most everyone has had problems with. No wonder it was only $10 after rebates. I switched to netgear and it works great.
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You DID switch them back after your little experiment right? RIGHT?
I consider you a dear friend, Stephen, so it would be a painful loss should you succumb to the repeated enstabbination naturally resulting from compromising my net access.
It’s not hard for you to switch them back. Do you propose we screw Chuck instead, Mr I’ll-be-gone-for-the-weekend? 😉
I didn’t know our router was so decrepit! Although I suppose the dead port thing was known to me. But if a dog can get by with just 3 legs, I figured we we’d do okay with 3 ports!
It was vexing to come home Thursday and have no connection, yet seem to be plugged in. Further investigation revealed that my cable was plugged in about as far as it could be without actually being plugged in. Sneaky.
As for a new router, I concur! I’ll pay for 2/3 of the final cost if we get one of the cooler beefy ones. I easily usurp the most bandwidth the most frequently. Someone mentioned D-Link was poo, but I’m curious to know if the model they had was the DGL-4300.
Here’s the meaty part of a review, but basically it’s a “gamer’s router”. It has the much desired traffic shaping that I had been pining for (which they call “GameFuel”) back when you guys were having FFXI connection dropitude. And it’s only about $130: newegg.com
Actually switching to‘s router until we get a decent replacement is probably a better plan than any malthusian situation where we end up with two bloody corpses and one murder conviction. =)
I have an extra netgear router if you want it
Sweet baby Jebus stay away from the evil that is D-Link. I thought it would be alright to buy the cheapest because I thought wireless routers were a commodity… but I was only getting EVIL!