Topic title says it all. My old router sucks and I am tired of dropped connections and having to reset it daily.
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abaddon4180 Notebook Virtuoso
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TP-Link TL-WR1043ND or Netgear WNR3500L.
Netgear has slightly faster CPU and more RAM but TP-Link has three upgradeable external antennas which may help in wireless department if an upgrade is required. Both have USB port, Gigabit switch, 300mbps Wi-Fi and are supported by 3rd party firmware like OpenWRT, DD-WRT or Tomato yet in both cases stock firmware is good enough so 3rd party firmware is an option. -
abaddon4180 Notebook Virtuoso
Would you recommend one over the other for reliability and consistency?
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Not really- it's hard to choose one of those. Price may help you a bit- TP-Link should be cheaper- if it's not than Netgear is the winner.
Basically Netgear's advantage is 64MB RAM while TP-Link has 32MB- that may come in handy with heavy P2P etc.
On the other hand Netgear's wireless performance is- as smallnetbuilder put it- "undistinguished" which says it all. And you can't to a thing about it.
To counter this- TP-Link has three removable antennas that you can upgrade to ones with higher gain or some specific antennas i.e. directional.
All in all both are good.
What the best cheap (~$60) router?
Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by abaddon4180, Aug 8, 2011.