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    Best Recommended Router for Small Household?

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by Sandstorm1903, Mar 7, 2010.

  1. Sandstorm1903

    Sandstorm1903 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi, I live in a house of 3 who use the internet daily and constantly! We use it for gaming, internet surfing, uploading, streaming, etc! I'm looking for a new $50-$150 router that will replace our old one and boost the bandwidth or connectivity of the wi-fi.

    Any suggestions?

    Further questions?
     
    Sandstorm1903, Mar 7, 2010
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  2. redrazor11

    redrazor11 Formerly waterwizard11

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    linksys wrt54G.

    /thread
     
    redrazor11, Mar 7, 2010
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  3. gaah

    gaah Notebook Deity

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    WRT610N - $94.99 refurbished @ shoplinksys.com
     
    gaah, Mar 7, 2010
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    Shyster1 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    What's your old router?
     
    Shyster1, Mar 8, 2010
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  5. mannyA

    mannyA Notebook Evangelist

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    Hi Sandstorm1903,


    I love my Linksys WRT610N, it is a Simultaneous Dual-N Band Wireless Router.
    <O :p</O :p
    If you buy it new from Best Buy, or something like that you will get V2.

    You may all so want to look at Google Linksys WRT610N



    I hope this helps :)
     
    mannyA, Mar 8, 2010
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  6. downloads

    downloads No, Dee Dee, no! Super Moderator

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    Definitely not that. Reason.
    What used to be WRT54G is now known as WRT54GL.
     
    downloads, Mar 8, 2010
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    ren3g7ade Notebook Evangelist

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    DLink DGL-4500
    Its a solid all-round router for gamers, multimedia users and heavy internet usage.
     
    ren3g7ade, Mar 9, 2010
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  8. leslieann

    leslieann Notebook Deity

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    If you share LARGE files, 1gig or more, and have N or plan on upgrading to N, then I recommend either the Linksys WRT610N, Netgear WNDR-3700, or the dual radio Asus.

    If you don't share large files then N is overkill and the Linksys WRT54GL as mentioned before is very difficult to beat. Buffalo and Asus offer similar models. Linksys made soem other versions as well.

    Similar models: (most are no longer available new most likely)
    Buffalo
    WHR-G54S, WHR-HP-G54, WZR-G54, WBR2-G54, WBR-G54, WZR-HP-G54, WZR-RS-G54, WZR-RS-G54HP, WVR-G54-NF, WHR2-A54-G54, WHR3-AG54

    Asus:
    WL500G Premium, WL500GE, WL520GU

    Linksys (beware of model versions, if it's not listed, it's not good.)
    WRT54G v1-v4, WRT54GS v1-v4, WRT54GL, WRTSL54GS
     
    leslieann, Mar 9, 2010
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  9. yejun

    yejun Notebook Deity

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    I use linksys wrt320n at 5g, and keep old router to handle 802.11g at 2.4g.
     
    yejun, Mar 9, 2010
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  10. leslieann

    leslieann Notebook Deity

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    If anyone is considering this router, go look at D-links support forum and look at post counts for each section, Most sections and router shave a few hundred at most, the 655 has THOUSANDS of tech support needed threads. Be sure to read the longest threads and the ones saying "I FINALLY FIXED IT!" where they proudly proclaim the fix was buying a new router.

    Seriously, if you must buy D-link, buy the next model up. I hear it is decent. I won't buy it, I won't recommend it, but it has to be better than the 655.
     
    leslieann, Mar 10, 2010
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