comfortablynumb
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I've been using a Netgear MR814 for about 7 or 8 years, in the last 6 months it's been about daily with the power cycle game to keep it up and running. Straight to my modem I'm fine, also throughput and performance has just steadily gotten worse lately with this router, but it's old and to be expected.
I'm not interested in N, and I don't really care to much about range, I'm usually wired and when I'm not I don't venture outdoors and it's a single floor residence. I want' to stay in the $40 - $60 range preferably.
I know every brand has it's good and bad products and the reviews across the board seem pretty unimpressive. I'm looking now at Dlink and Netgear, Linksys I've seen to many problems in the past with them. About all I'm concerned with is stability, and decent throughput on the wired side. I just want a stable router that don't require constant daily power cycles, I know they all eventually lock up and require a power cycle though.
I've narrowed it down so far to:
- DLINK DIR-601 I know it's faux N I would put it in G only mode, can't find much good nor bad on this router. The WBR-1310 reviews scare me off the G offering.
- NETGEAR WGR614 I've read a few weird things on this, quit a few reviews state that there is a high pitch squeal that emits from the router (I can't see how a solid state router can make noise, but what ever), slow throughput, flaky. Other reviews mainly gamers talk about to many simultaneous connections causes the router to go offline for 30 seconds, I'm guessing this is the DOS protection kicking in. I don't game much so that one isn't huge for me but still something to consider.
- Linksys WRT54G2 I know I've said no Linksys, but I've look at it anyway. In looking online, I've seen lots of complaints of equipment dying after a years time. Also numerous complaints about the routers locking up and needing to be cycled several times a day. This has been my findings in the past with Linksys equipment when I used to do support work.
I'm not interested in N, and I don't really care to much about range, I'm usually wired and when I'm not I don't venture outdoors and it's a single floor residence. I want' to stay in the $40 - $60 range preferably.
I know every brand has it's good and bad products and the reviews across the board seem pretty unimpressive. I'm looking now at Dlink and Netgear, Linksys I've seen to many problems in the past with them. About all I'm concerned with is stability, and decent throughput on the wired side. I just want a stable router that don't require constant daily power cycles, I know they all eventually lock up and require a power cycle though.
I've narrowed it down so far to:
- DLINK DIR-601 I know it's faux N I would put it in G only mode, can't find much good nor bad on this router. The WBR-1310 reviews scare me off the G offering.
- NETGEAR WGR614 I've read a few weird things on this, quit a few reviews state that there is a high pitch squeal that emits from the router (I can't see how a solid state router can make noise, but what ever), slow throughput, flaky. Other reviews mainly gamers talk about to many simultaneous connections causes the router to go offline for 30 seconds, I'm guessing this is the DOS protection kicking in. I don't game much so that one isn't huge for me but still something to consider.
- Linksys WRT54G2 I know I've said no Linksys, but I've look at it anyway. In looking online, I've seen lots of complaints of equipment dying after a years time. Also numerous complaints about the routers locking up and needing to be cycled several times a day. This has been my findings in the past with Linksys equipment when I used to do support work.