| Different Twist on Router Needs My router is located in an office/den in the extreme right corner of my house. It is just about impossible to get whole house wireless coverage from that location. Even if I could, 3/4 of the signal would be outside my house and into the neighbor's house/yard. But, I have a central location where a good wireless AP gives me whole house coverage without sending most of the signal outside of my house.
My current router is a DIR 655 with wireless turned off. Performance has been flawless. I haven't had a glitch in months (maybe years). But the 655 is getting a little old and I have been wondering what to get as a replacement. All the focus there days seems to be on wireless performance. I don't need wireless performance on a router, just good router performance and features.
So, I would appreciate any advice about a router to replace the DIR 655, router specs, stability and performance very important but wireless performance of no importance.
Thanks, Jim |
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 mozerdLight Will Pierce The DarknessPremium,MVM
join:2004-04-23
Nepean, ON | Since you're happy with the DIR655 no reason to Change unless you are looking for a REAL ROUTER/Firewall that performs well and has rich capabilities like the ZyWALL USG50 |
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 AnavSarcastic Llama? Naw, Just AcerbicPremium
join:2001-07-16
Dartmouth, NS
kudos:3 | reply to hawkeye62
If your looking for a consumer router the asus rt n56u does very well at small net builder. It has good routing performance. If you want more control mozerds selection is a good one..... Depends on expectations and budget |
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Thanks for the replies. I don't need to replace the DIR 655 now, I was just trying to look ahead.
The USG50 looks like overkill for a home network?
The Asus is interesting. Small Netbuilder shows excellent throughput.
Regards, Jim |
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AnavSarcastic Llama? Naw, Just AcerbicPremium
join:2001-07-16
Dartmouth, NS
kudos:3 | Overkill, depends on what level of control you desire.
Concur for basic use, it is. |
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| The DIR-655 has features I don't understand and many more features than I use. Yet, when ever I go to one of those sites that checks my internet security, the results are always that my network is invisible to the Internet. I guess the only feature I would want that I don't see is something like OpenDNS where I could block access to classes of web sites.
I would want any replacement router to have at least what the DIR-655 has. I don't think I need a business class router. I have no need for VPN which seems to be the focus of business class routers.
Regards, Jim |
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U said u have a special need, yet in the whole post ur only objection is OLD.
Itching to give ur $ away? Don't like the box's color?
Until u can come up with a REAL need to change, get 4 new chrome wheels instead.
How old is your box? Mine is 10 years old but of course it's an honest-to-God hardware firewall, the only thing I wish it has is SNMP monitoring, but to get that am looking to spend $350 and countless hours of research. Nah, I'll get the new iPhone instead. |
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