What router should I buy? (not wireless)

Hi,

I've thoroughly read the sticky at the top of this forum, but don't think it applies because I'm not looking for a wireless router. My router is located in my garage, which is separated from the main house by a few concrete walls.

I'm looking for a high performance router (budget approx. $500). I will be connecting four personal computers and five servers handling HTTP, FTP and a few other services. I'd be very grateful of suggestions for fast, reliable routers that sound like they would be useful.

I do need the modem to be built into the router. Also, I'm not opposed to buying a wireless router, I'd just rather dedicate my money to good wired features. If it just happens that the best wired router is also a good wireless router, that's fine.

I am also looking for suggestions of good wireless access points. I want to plug two into my router, to give the main house adequate coverage, and would be very grateful of suggestions of fast, high performance access points.

If you need any more information, please let me know.

With many thanks,

Froskoy.

 

Kind of an odd/unique question you have there. Pretty much everything worth recommending is gigabit which will be your primary concern, so your next focus should be stability. If you truly don't care about wireless coverage from the router, I would suggest picking up a netgear wndr3700 and loading DDWRT on it; it's an 'older' router and loading ddwrt is something that more technically inclined people do, but I have one and the thing has never needed a reboot up until a power failure ended its' 300+ day streak. And then I would just buy a motorola sb6121 cable modem, since motorola modems are tanks. All in one modem/router combos are usually quite terrible at what they do, avoid them if possible.

As far as WAPs go, look at the asus rtn66u. It ships with a WAP mode feature right out of the box (easy to setup) and is one of the strongest wireless routers currently. 802.11AC isn't ready for primetime yet so I'd avoid the AC66U, they are different units.

 

I don't think NBR is the proper place if you are looking for business/managed models routers, maybe download may have some suggestion~~ .I would say try to check out smallnetbuilder.

If you must have the modem build into the router ,I believe the selection will really be limited .

 

Thanks for the replies guys! I've ordered a Netgear wndr3700 and will load the DDWRT firmware on it. I'll also check out smallnetbuilder, as I have some further inquiries along these lines.

Thanks again!

Froskoy.