opinion needed: linksys wrt54G vs netgear FR114P

to make a long story short, i had a linksys WRT54G version2 for a few years, and was OK with it. it finally bricked on me, and i returned it under warranty for a new one. linksys sent me back a version 6. it has been nothing but a disaster.

my problem with both versions, is that when i have a bunch of torrents going, the router is so swamped with traffic that no one (LAN and wifi users) can access ANY webpage. they all just time out. also, i can't access the router's GUI itself (192.168.1.1) because the router is just completely swamped. i tried every single firmware under the sun, and it made little to no difference. right now i'm running DD-WRT linux on the version 6, which is SWEEEEET firmware, but the hardware itself still can't handle a **** thing. and god forbid, if i'm downloading a large file, and my roommates are downloading stuff, we could only be using 3mb of our 10mb connection, and the router is just dead.

so i've been wanting to get a router that can HANDLE anything i throw at it. i'm willing to spend the money, and i'm sick of not being able to browse websites while torrents are going simply because the router can't handle the traffic, even though i'm only using a small percentage of my actual bandwidth.

with that said, i'm looking at the netgear FR114p: http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16833122120

is this a router that can handle whatever i throw at it? if not...which one? i'm tired of putting up with cheap consumer hardware that can't handle a little bit of traffic....

cheers
matt

 

Any time you use a residential router, they are not design for heavy use. I think the v7 has les ram than your original v2, sam as v5. So it is uanbleto handle multiple threads. \

My recomendation to you is setup your BT to restrict bandwitdth and see if that helps.

Or move up to a bussiness class router. They are design for heavy use.

 

yeah, i keep reading the version 5 and up is a joke. i see they cut the ram, flash memory and cpu speed in half compared to all the previous versions.

the bittorrents don't actually use up all my bandwidth. even at their peak, they're downloading 3-4mb MAX, when my connection can reach 6-7mb easily. as i've stated before, its NOT my connection, it's the crappy router. when i plug my computer directly into the modem, i can be downloading at 1MB+ a second and still surf the web fine and download small files and etc etc. but then i plug back into the router and it requires an act of god to have just a few torrents going at 200kb and let me surf the web...

 

whoa whoa whoa, don't post so fast everyone! don't want to crash teh server....

 

The true replacement to your old WRT54G v2 is the WRT54GL. It doens't have the ram cut and it still has open source OS.
I really think that BT setups overall kill routers. I've used several normal routers and they all seem to get heavy slow downs, even with light BT usage. My 54GL has been fine with bit torrents, but it's mainly the heavy uploads that kill it.
Which, btw, check your upload levels. If you can't transmit your HTTP gets, then you won't receive anything. I think thats the single biggest factor is that people don't cap the uploads to a low enough level. At least, thats my experience.