Reliable and stable router under heavy traffic

[hyelton]

I'm looking for the best option $60 or under including refurbished. At least 6 active devices. And at all times at least 20 connected devices. And has a goof QoS for uploading as I only have a 2mbps upload speed. Also it needs to be able to handle a almost constant 24mpbs downstream the E1200 v2 seems to act up after about 30min of a constant 24mbps stream of bw. I just want something stable and reliable I'm tired of buying routers I don't keep for very long due to some issue.

Current router is an Dir-655 Rev C its actually pretty awesome besides the part that QoS doesn't work very well.


Wireless is not really important. As most clients will be on an access point or wired

Thanks

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[theveterans]

I'm looking for the best option $60 or under including refurbished. At least 6 active devices. And at all times at least 20 connected devices. And has a goof QoS for uploading as I only have a 2mbps upload speed. Also it needs to be able to handle a almost constant 24mpbs downstream the E1200 v2 seems to act up after about 30min of a constant 24mbps stream of bw. I just want something stable and reliable I'm tired of buying routers I don't keep for very long due to some issue.

Current router is an Dir-655 Rev C its actually pretty awesome besides the part that QoS doesn't work very well.


Wireless is not really important. As most clients will be on an access point or wired

Thanks

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Since WiFi isn't a priority, I suggest to get a dedicated router such as Microtik RB750GL for full QoS control (limit bandwidth per Ethernet port, dhcp client, and even file extensions such as exe, pdf, etc!). It only costs $60 and it's always rock stable. http://routerboard.com/RB750GL

 

[hyelton]

Since WiFi isn't a priority, I suggest to get a dedicated router such as Microtik RB750GL for full QoS control (limit bandwidth per Ethernet port, dhcp client, and even file extensions such as exe, pdf, etc!). It only costs $60 and it's always rock stable. http://routerboard.com/RB750GL

What sort of OS is installed on them? RouterOS? This is just for the home so doesn't need to he too complicated but extra features are nice

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[theveterans]

What sort of OS is installed on them? RouterOS? This is just for the home so doesn't need to he too complicated but extra features are nice

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Most of consumer routers (even with 3rd party firmware such as DDWRT or Tomato) have crappy QoS. Since you mentioned about QoS, limiting upload speed, and WiFi not being a necessity, that's why I recommended a dedicated router such as Microtik routers with RouterOS (CLI expertise needed to configure the router). The closest consumer firm QoS to the enterprise level OS QoS feature is from TP-Link: http://www.tplink.com/en/article/?articleid=160

Some users report buggy implementation but YMMV. Hope this helps. BTW, if you're considering TP-Link router in case you want to test their upload/download limit per DHCP IP, choose the Archer C7 v2 since AC routers often comes with more powerful CPU and higher capacity RAM.

 

[hyelton]

Most of consumer routers (even with 3rd party firmware such as DDWRT or Tomato) have crappy QoS. Since you mentioned about QoS, limiting upload speed, and WiFi not being a necessity, that's why I recommended a dedicated router such as Microtik routers with RouterOS (CLI expertise needed to configure the router). The closest consumer firm QoS to the enterprise level OS QoS feature is from TP-Link: http://www.tplink.com/en/article/?articleid=160

Some users report buggy implementation but YMMV. Hope this helps. BTW, if you're considering TP-Link router in case you want to test their upload/download limit per DHCP IP, choose the Archer C7 v2 since AC routers often comes with more powerful CPU and higher capacity RAM.

I don't really need QoS on different IPs I just need QoS to throttle the entire upload down a few kbps to keep my ping in tact while uploading. I've tried to do pfsense & monowall etc but QoS is way to complex for what I need and usually never works correctly for me. The E1200 I tested with stock, tomato, & ddwrt QoS works great! But the router just can't handle the constant load.

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[Scooterit]

Perhaps you should consider spending more than $60 on this key piece of equipment that handles all your network traffic...

 

[stevech]

upstream QoS won't fix high peak demands for low latency (games, VoIP).

 

[hyelton]

upstream QoS won't fix high peak demands for low latency (games, VoIP).

It always has for me on my cable connection, I have only a 2mbps upload. I usually set QoS around 1.8mbps on the QoS settings and I can upload to my hearts content and latentcy to say World of Warcraft never goes up past 80ms (Without doing anything WoW is around 69ms) And I can strain my upload and still have a 20ms ping to google or a 10-15ms ping without uploading. Only thing it affects is it usually cuts my download in half while uploading which is fine. For Where I live I can get pretty good latency. Latency To Atlanta, GA is only 8ms and that`s about 200 miles away.

How is the:

TP-Link WDR3600? Stock or DD-WRT.



My Budget can now be raised to $100

 

[Miyuo]

I also think you should consider spending more than $60 on this key piece of equipment that handles all your network traffic. if you want a outstanding router, It is necessary to improve the budget. I have been using the Huawei B880 router for the past couple of years and it has worked great. The range is adequate, I get good signals from all rooms of my house. I have been using Huawei router.

 

[hyelton]

I also think you should consider spending more than $60 on this key piece of equipment that handles all your network traffic. if you want a outstanding router, It is necessary to improve the budget. I have been using the Huawei B880 router for the past couple of years and it has worked great. The range is adequate, I get good signals from all rooms of my house. I have been using Huawei router.

My last posted I noted Raising my Budget to $100.

That is a 3G/LTE router. Thats not need.


Im really thinking about getting the TL-WDR3600

Any reason to choose the EA6300 over the TL-WDR3600 or vice versa?

 

[microchip]

The WDR3600 is a fine router, even with stock FW. I own a couple of TP-Link routers and never had issues with them

 

[hyelton]

The WDR3600 is a fine router, even with stock FW. I own a couple of TP-Link routers and never had issues with them

As an access point/repeater? Or using it as the Wireless Part?

Theres a lot of people that say a Router is good but only use it as a repeater/access point which is sort of pointless to me.

I have a few older routers laying around WRT54G as an example, Routing is sucks really bad with my current connection, BUT use another router & turn it into an access point it works amazingly!

 

[microchip]

Using them as routers. Only one is set as AP and that is the WR1024ND

 

[hyelton]

Using them as routers. Only one is set as AP and that is the WR1024ND

Oh okay Thanks! I still got about 4 hours to decide. Gonna use One day prime shipping

 

[hyelton]

Sadly the WDR3600 is going back it works really great! But every 2 days it has to be rebooted it looses the modems IP. Not a problem with modem / ISP as I have 1 dynamic IP and 1 static IP both do the same thing. Doesn't happen on dd-wrt firmware but on dd-wrt pages load incomplete and its sort of problematic. So back to looking

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