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    A couple questions about buying a new router...what should i get!?

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by kazaam55555, Mar 5, 2009.

  1. kazaam55555

    kazaam55555 Notebook Evangelist

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    Okay, we have a WRTP54g (vonage edition or w/e) and its been absolute hell.

    I'd like to get a wireless-N router, but i dont know what to buy. Are there any of these that are good but cheap?

    Also, if i decide to forgo wireless n, whats the cheapest/best router i can get?

    ive had enough of this, its terrible.

    thanks in advance!
     
    kazaam55555, Mar 5, 2009
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    nizzy1115 Notebook Prophet

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    What is wrong with it...and do you need the voip capabilities in the new router?
     
    nizzy1115, Mar 6, 2009
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    kazaam55555 Notebook Evangelist

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    its just really bad...dropped internet all the time, mixes up addresses, inactivity.

    and NO no voip please!
     
    kazaam55555, Mar 6, 2009
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    What do you mean it mixes up addresses and inactivity. Could you elaborate on them a little?

    For the dropped connections did you try changing the transmission frequency on the router to another end of the spectrum like ch. 1 or 11?
     
    nizzy1115, Mar 6, 2009
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  5. DetlevCM

    DetlevCM Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Just on Belkin...
    our Router was perfectly fine for 2 years... absolutely no problem - then it turned temperamental...

    (I wish I could solve the problem...)
     
    DetlevCM, Mar 6, 2009
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    I had my linksys wrt54g from when it first came out till about a month ago. Still worked great and never had a problem with it. Only replaced it for an all in one iptv/voip/router package thing from uverse.
     
    nizzy1115, Mar 6, 2009
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