What is the best router for me? Maximum I would want to spend is 120$
I was thinking of giving wifi to my dormmates so that i would have extra money each month and at the same time i would not want my gaming to be compromised so I need a router that can limit their consumption.My Landlord over charges so i want to offer a better substitute to people. He is offering 15kbps at 10$ monthly(its slow but decent if you dont go to youtube like sites) I want to offer 30kbps at 10$, I currently have a 2mbps plan and whenever i download a torrent the constant speed is in 195-200kbps so I plan to have 3 people use my wifi but i only want them to consume only 30kbps each and keep the 110kbps to myself so that i can maintain good ping in games. Thing is, I dont know how to allocate bandwidth too users. I heard you can do this with expensive routers and good QoS. Is this true?
I also want a router that can be beneficial to my BFN 1103. I heard that Dual Band routers are good 2.4-5ghz(?) but i have no idea what the advantages are.
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Cheap and reliable solution- TP-Link TL-WR1043ND and Gargoyle firmware.
Oddly enough I have already described this firmware's advantages in this regard today so I won't repeat myself.
See here for more on bandwidth control in Gargoyle and here for my review of this firmware (review is not the right word come to think of it) and here to see how it all looks like.
As for a router being beneficial to your Bigfoot- excuse me for being blunt but with that kind of connection there's no point spending more to get nothing. The connection is simply too slow and spending big money to get nothing doesn't make sense- TP-Link in question is good and costs $50 in the US and will get the job done. -
1.0 out of 5 stars Defective Product - Do Not Buy, March 15, 2012
By CyberChick (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews
This review is from: NETGEAR RangeMax Premium Wireless-N Gigabit Router (WNR3500) (Personal Computers)
I am sorry to say that I cannot recommend this router. I've had one for about 1.5 years, and it worked great at first. A few months ago it suddenly started dropping connections. Sometimes you can connect, but it won't pass data. Sometimes you cannot connect at all. Rebooting doesn't seem to help. The timing and length of the outages is completely unpredictable. A Google search shows that others are experiencing the same problem. I just upgraded the firmware to the latest a few days ago, and the problem still exists. I have wasted way too much time trying to debug and fix this router. I will be replacing it in the next few days. What a complete waste of money. Do yourself a favor and don't buy this product!
What other routers have this capability? I seem to get random disconnections with all the routers i have. An asus at home a linksys in the condo and d-link in my dorm. . is it my laptop or the router flat out sucks?I I havent tried using those dual band routers/high end though and the disconnections happen like every 10 mins or so when watching youtube and playing dota2. -
You got me lost somewhere along the way- why the review for a Netgear WNR3500?
My recommendation was different, wasn't it?
Anyway- any Atheros router and some Broadcom ones should be able to run Gargoyle. See here for a list.
Also be aware that you're looking for a router to replace stock firmware with Gargoyle or OpenWRT so you can safely ignore any references to stock firmware. -
Planning to sell my wifi to other dormmates
Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by jpsm, Dec 23, 2012.