thanks stevech, but is trendnet really budget oreiented? i see alot of the routers are pretty pricey, whats your opinion on dual band simultaneous routers? are there any good ones? or am i better off using my old wireless g router as an AP to seperate my G's and N's
thiggins arent you the admin of this site? whats your input on my questions? and should i pay attention to the stress tests?
He means from DSL forum, but well now everyone wants wireless just can't tell them not to do wireless. I test my stuff and post videos on Youtube. I stress beyond what most here might go through. You need to know what the router can do and what it can or what it's limits are.
I am looking for:
Wireless (through-put & being stable 802.11g/n)
Gig (through-put & being stable LAN to LAN to WAN to LAN)
Issues with:
Web Sites (non-responsive to clicks to post, save, change, login an etc..)
Overheating (unit case becomes hot)
Wireless (going poof! (disappear off the radar scope) or sluggish behavior
Gig (starting to go sluggish) on LAN to LAN to WAN to LAN
P2p Fluctuations
Frozen non-responsive unit
an etc..
Not all routers are made the same, they might look the same on FCC ID photos. Each have to follow FCC guide lines as stated below:
Typical 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz transmit power, which is regulated by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), is around +17 to +30 dBm (50 mW to 1 W). Typical radio receiver demodulation maximum sensitivity is around -90 dBm for base data rate modulations and all data packet headers for 802.11a/b/g/n. Antenna gain maximums are limited by the FCC.
You buy a wireless router you expect it to perform out of the box experience. You don't want it to start acting flaky. Or go out of control.
Trendnet
EnGenius
Belkin
Dlink
Netgear
TP-Link
Cisco Linksys
Asus
MSI
3Com now taken over by HP
So much other companies all have there wireless network gear to sell.
Nothing wrong with these companies listed above, there hardware been around for several years. We all have a preference or brand you rather use then others.
450/450mbps is what I really like to see and use. 300mbps its been around and we all know what the limits are already. 54 G well you know that was very stable for years. But now since we're going into more HD and wireless streaming G just can't handle the mother load anymore. Wired is good if you have the jacks to access the ports. Wireless is where everyone going. Sure going to take time to get to the point where wireless is can be just as good as wired. But going to take time.
I can only view 480p over 802.11n or mix mode wireless LAN to WAN using ESR-9850 even on my best laptop which I had go recently and that's supports LED/LCD Blue-Ray HDTV 1080p Dolby Digital Surround the 802.11n is based off Atheros. No real issues with that model. I can go 720p on TEW-673GRU over the wireless LAN to WAN on youtube. Wired Gig LAN to WAN I can view 1080p without any issues on youtube.