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    Hello guys, need a cheap reliable route.

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by un4tural, Mar 3, 2014.

  1. un4tural

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    Hello,

    Essentially need a cheap router that works properly, i'm in UK, and need a new router for my aunt/uncle's as the one they provide for "free" works as well as a rock. It works brilliantly unless you use more than 2 devices basically... Only requirements would be integrated adsl2+ modem, because there's not much room to put a separate modem and well obviously so it gives a reliable connection and doesn't cut out when say i watch netflix and browse internet and uncle watches youtube... i don't mind an old/used one, as i had an old d-link, though QoS sucked, or lack of.

    nothing too fancy, just a box i could chuck in the corner and not need to reboot it every 10 minutes and let cool down every 15... poking it with a stick all the time because it cannot handle stuff... (torrents+skype+web on my laptop youtube+facebook on uncle's makes it feels like I'm on dial-up, its 1MB/s like, so nothing fancy, and yes i limit torrent downloads to 200kb/s to keep enough bandwidth for the rest of things...)

    it does have one of those tv boxes connected via lan too, though nobody uses it beyond checking tv guide to see whats on tv...which probably doesnt even use any bandwidth as even without the box tv can manage that...

    it's a DSL-3680 currently, even though in firmware it shows 2680...their free offering for "unlimited" broadband (talktalk).

    if i forgot to mention anything important let me know, i have been using modem+dsl modem most of my life so this set-up is fairly weird to me, having modem and router in one.