The Glade 4.0

I'm looking for a new router (that can hopefully be ordered today with overnight shipping at Amazon), so as to have a router set up and ready to go when we move into the rental house.

My criteria:

* Must have at least four wired ports
* Best/strongest wifi signal available for the price
* Hoping to spend no more than $70 (lower is, of course, better, but I have a bit of lee-way at the top end)

Recommendations?

Personal opinion:

Get this and a 5-port switch: maybe this or this

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Darksiege
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Bleah. I've never liked Linksys, but that's a personal hangup.

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I have that router and it has treated me well.

I tried a Netgear wireless N prior to that and decided right then to NEVER use another Netgear product. I will stick with Linksys/Cisco.

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Darksiege
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Linksys, unlike Kaffis, is the only wireless router brand that has been reliable for more than a year for me. I own the first router Stathol suggested and it has been solid as a rock for me for 5 years. I constantly stream videos wirelessly through it for my wii and xbox, from several rooms away.

Another reason I like Linksys is that they are made by Cisco.

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I'm not going to make a blanket recommendation for Linksys. Not all of their networking products are stellar, even after the buyout by Cisco. But the WRT series has been deserving of its reputation.

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I've had the one linked above before (two of 'em, actually), and they both worked great for a while, but then fell into the old "lost connection, need to unplug router to reset" trap.

The two I've been looking at are the Belkin Wireless N+ ($60) and the cheaper, unknown-to-me but well-reviewed Medialink Wireless N Router ($40). But networking is not my strong suit, so aside from a few experiences, I don't really know the best stuff.

Also, quick question...why the recommendation for switches?

The router Stathol was recommending does not have gigabit wired ports. The switch does. Thus, you wire everything to the switch, so that only external traffic and wireless-to-wired traffic is constrained by the 100 megabit wired connections on the router.

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"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

That's good to know, I just ordered a Linksys WRT400N last night because my router is on it's last leg and it seemed like a great deal for the price as newegg had it marked down to $69 from $129 (still $129 on Linksys's site), especially great because I was looking to get a dual band router if possible and they all seemed to be around that price for switchable and $100-200 range for simultaneous dual band and the WRT400N does simultaneous dual band.

I have the dual-band version (dir-825, otherwise identical) of this D-Link DIR-655 router and it works fantastic throughout the house. Decent firmware on it as well.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... -_-Product

I have a linksys WRT wireless G router that I've been using for.... too many years.

Have not had a single problem with it.

I'm with Lenas. D-Link has always been my favorite, and my 6 (?) year old 625 is going strong.

I've been meaning to replace it now that N is out of draft, though.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

And just for referrence, my router reliably covers what I guess to be ~1300sq ft over two floors.

Linksys E3000

That's the one I have Replaced a D-Link with it, which had previously replaced a netgear which had replaced a different netgear. Both were less than 80 bucks, and I got tired of replacing crappy routers every other year.

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Holy shitsnacks!

psst... *points up to Farsky's desired pricepoint*

You missed the target.

I like my E1000. I have not had it for very long, but it has done good by me. I had my prior Linksys for several years, it still works, but I wanted to start the N setup in my home.

And I wanted a cheap router to load the WRTG software onto, so the old Linksys it was...

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Darksiege
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I've had good luck with the WRT line of routers. I've been using two of them for years.

Definitely no complaints.

I have not tried any of their new fangled post-cisco-acquisition stuff, so I can't speak to that.