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Re: [Internet] Best Routers for Bridged Networks

I stand by my claim. It will route data over 50 Mbps.

This is not the router I have.

You guys are apparently recommending a buggy $130 router with a Ralink chipset that is nothing more than a niche product.

I've provided an example of something that is 1/5 the price that has proven firmware and proven performance, whether I own this particular model or not. There are over 30 router models in existence from various manufacturers that use this same chipset and it is supported by every major 3rd party firmware. Thousands if not hundreds of thousands of people use this particular type of router. The 3rd party firmwares available for this platform have many more users/testers and are consequently more mature than a single proprietary firmware for a particular Asus model router. There is nothing hypothetical about my argument. Speed and/or potential does not equal "best" in my book. Tried and true and cheap do. This is only my opinion.

@ispgeek Not really sure what you mean by media share? I have an Apple TV2 that I stream to but I gon't think that's what your talking about.

I have a VERY LARGE (20,000+ songs) music library on a dedicated 1TB drive that I share but it is plugged into my main hard wired PC. Don't see any reason to move that over to the router since my shares are all set up already.

As for the other issue, sorry to come off a bit weird about testing that issue for you. I'm extremely technical in some areas but not so much in others. Also, I have already run into issues of having to unplug and do a hard reboot of my router after a change didn't take properly. Everything came back up ok but it was still scary.

Okay this is important. What changes were you making and what happened? Some changes take several seconds to take and reset your router and others are fairly quick....tell me what you are seeing, how etc so I can attempt to duplicate them here.
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If I remember correctly;

In one case, I was in the ADVANCED>WIRELESS>5GHz>GENERAL tab. I changed:

wireless mode to "n only"
channel bandwith to "40MHz"
channel to "165"

Can't recall the other issue right now

And when you did this what happened as best you can describe it...

And you are still on .14 firmware right?

Thanks I'll try to duplicate situation tonight/tomorrow and get back at ya.

Zyxel USG100 here with bunch of N WAPs in repeater mode.

While it may appear expensive, it's very cheap for all the features you get.

If you have more sophisticated home network setup and you depend on high network availability (dual WAN), love high VPN throughput, USG series is the way to go.

Enterprise class features in a SOHO class price range.

Zyxel generally speaking has a very good name and has been around a long time. I don't have a ton of experience with their routers but years ago I wouldn't accept anything but their modems (back in the day) because they were tops in their game for what I needed and yea I paid extra for those buggers but they worked every single time without fail.
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"I can’t give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time."
~ Herbert Bayard Swope

Boomer would you like to try .15 of the firmware and see if it goes away? I still have my copy here if you want me to send you a link to it.

No but thanks, it's no big deal. Everything is working great. The way I see it, they pulled .15 for a reason so I'll just wait until the re-release it.

You mentioned the Media Server a few posts back. I commented back to you but didn't see a response. Are you using the media server in any particular way or is their an advantage I don't understand to using the router USB vs the way I'm currently doing things?

The advantage of using the media server feature of the router is that you can attach small footprint and power consumption USB drives to your network available to all (and even people off your network if you want). As you have it setup now in order for others to have access to your network shares your main computer must be on.
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Is this a Good Router ?

Buffalo Tech AirStation™ High Power N600 Gigabit Dual Band Wireless Router & AP - WZR-HP-AG300H

»www.buffalotech.com/products/wir···-related

Please let me know. I like the fact that it has dd-wrt inside with OpenVPN support.

Re: [Internet] Best Routers for Bridged Networks

FT Boomer I've discovered an issue that warrants posting. Apparently this router has some issues with certain external hard drives. My two WD elements drives work fine but another external drive I have doesn't work with the media server...it essentially refuses to mount the drive. I know of another person having similar issues with the Seagate Go Flex series of external drives. One of his drives works but the other two either don't work at all or work for a bit and then stop being recognized by the router.

Some very strange stuff and while it'snot the purpose for owning this router it's important for everyone to know about these things in advance. I'll try to get some info from Asus in next day or so.
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"I can’t give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time."
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Odd, I don't own one of those and the WD I have is way to embedded to remove it from it's current connection.

Yup it's an odd one. Hope to get some answers soon. Like I said I don't need or use the feature but I know others that do and figured what the heck I'll play too. We both discovered the weirdness about the same time.
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Re: Is this a Good Router ?

No Problem, Thank You so much for what you do here in this Forum.

Bigdaddy I did some research on that router. The initial reviews are mixed and if the review trend were to continue its present direction I would have to say that customers aren't thrilled with the device. Not to say its bad...it isn't just not what I want to see in that price range ($90+-). That said it is a true VPN endpoint which is good and yes it will run DDWRT however the chipset is not officially supported by DDWRT so some features are not available. This box is also single processor which means that it will be impacted faster at lessor session counts which means if you are a heavy torrent user or have lots of people on your local network it's likely to bog a bit.

That said IF I had my choice today, right now, this instant knowing everything I know I would still spend the extra $30.00 and get the Asus...yes even with the minimal quirks it appears to be a better box, by user reviews, my own personal experience and by specifications. Just my two cents (ok four cents).
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"I can’t give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time."
~ Herbert Bayard Swope

Thanks my decision on Routers will be based on which VPN service provider I will use for instance HMA use's OpenVPN and work's with routers with dd-WRT inside. Other vpn services is software based. What i have to deiced is what VPN Protocal i want use PPP PPTP L2TP or SSTP and OpenVPN. So if i use a software or dialer based VPN I'll Go with the Asus, if i go hardware I'll Try the Buffalo with openvpn.

You don't need DD-WRT to use OpenVPN. You can install a OpenVPN client on your machines like any other VPN client. DD-WRT includes an OpenVPN server and client, the server is useful for running your own OpenVPN service but since you just need a client, DD-WRT is not essential.

Good point!

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