New wireless ADSL router?

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » February 4th, 2006, 12:21

My router is begging to be released so it can make it's way to the router graveyard, it needs frequent beatings to keep it working. So I need a replacement, any suggestions?

My current one is a Linksys WAG54G and reviews I looked at recently made me LOL, seems as though I've been lucky it's worked this long.

Jinxx · Post by **Jinxx** » February 4th, 2006, 12:25

spoodie wrote:Linksys WAG54G

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » February 4th, 2006, 12:44

Ok, any other suggestions that don't involve screaming in terror?

Stoat · Post by **Stoat** » February 4th, 2006, 13:55

As likely as it is that this will cause screaming again, I recently got the WAG354G. It's worked very well in the few weeks I've had it so far. Before that I had a 3com (rebranded- same as a Belkin, apparently) OfficeConnect. It lasted a year and could be a little flakey sometimes.

edit: Just read some reviews for the WAG354G. All I can say is that I've had no connection droppages and it was piss easy to set up. The range is fine for my house, but if you want to extend it there's a plug for an aerial.

Lee · Post by **Lee** » February 4th, 2006, 13:59

I've had a BT Voyager 2100 for over a year now and its still going strong, havent had any problems with it. I connect to it with a wire but my brother connects through wireless and he still gets good pings on games.

Post by **FatherJack** » February 4th, 2006, 18:07

My WRT54GC has been fine, although I don't actually use the wireless function. It has recently been slashed in price by about a half.

The old Netgear MR314 was still working but an XBox server "upgrade" to make some other routers work caused it to "fall off" the compatibility list.

Edit: By fine, I mean it has never failed in the 4 or so months I've had it. It's on 24/7 has never dropped a connection and when I'm not playing a game it's downloading documents pretty much full-time.

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » February 4th, 2006, 18:23

Well I couldn't stand it any longer and went and got a WAG354G from PC World. It took just 5 minutes to get connected and it's so much better now. Thanks for the recommendation Stoat.

Post by **deject** » February 4th, 2006, 20:11

make sure you enable QoS for maximum gaming goodness!

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » February 4th, 2006, 20:46

deject wrote:make sure you enable QoS for maximum gaming goodness!

I was going to ask about this. Can it cause any problems? Guessing at how I should configure it I've set http to high priority and left most the others as low, FTP medium, as I don't use the other standard protocols. There's space for 3 custom ports, suggestions?

Also what about enabling QoS on my OS? I'm not using it yet.

Post by **FatherJack** » February 4th, 2006, 22:12

I've got 3724/6112/6881-6999 for Azureus/WoW downloader and 12975 for Hamachi.

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » February 5th, 2006, 10:43

QoS is bad. It was causing problems so it's off for now until I read up about it and understand what I'm doing.

Lateralus · Post by **Lateralus** » February 5th, 2006, 13:21

Is QoS the same as fowarding ports on the applications and gaming bit of the setup? Which ports should one foward for CS:S?

Post by **deject** » February 5th, 2006, 15:47

QoS prioritizes data packets going out by their impotance, so important things like the BF2 data gets through with less lag, while your porn download is running at the same time.

Lateralus · Post by **Lateralus** » February 5th, 2006, 16:32

deject wrote:impotance

So your floppy is at the top of the list then?

Post by **deject** » February 5th, 2006, 16:33

pfffffffffffft! Freud would be proud...

Lateralus · Post by **Lateralus** » February 5th, 2006, 16:42

deject wrote:pfffffffffffft! Freud would be proud...

He'd want to know about the dreams we all have about your mother

Stoat · Post by **Stoat** » February 5th, 2006, 16:53

Lateralus wrote:
deject wrote:pfffffffffffft! Freud would be proud...
He'd want to know about the dreams we all have about your mother

Zo. Tell me about zis "Verd". How does it related to your mozer?

Lateralus · Post by **Lateralus** » February 7th, 2006, 12:34

Ok, just upgraded my router's firmware (it kept dropping the signal) and theres now a QoS option. How does one find out which ports a game uses, specifically CS:S?

Hehulk · Post by **Hehulk** » February 7th, 2006, 14:06

Stoat wrote:
Lateralus wrote:
deject wrote:pfffffffffffft! Freud would be proud...
He'd want to know about the dreams we all have about your mother
Zo. Tell me about zis "Verd". How does it related to your mozer?

What the feck what I dream have to do with my mother? I'd be serously worried if they did have something even closly related (and no, oddly enough, I don't dream about eve. much.)

Post by **Roman Totale** » February 7th, 2006, 18:13

Hehulk wrote:
Stoat wrote:
Lateralus wrote:
deject wrote:pfffffffffffft! Freud would be proud...
He'd want to know about the dreams we all have about your mother
Zo. Tell me about zis "Verd". How does it related to your mozer?

What the feck what I dream have to do with my mother? I'd be serously worried if they did have something even closly related (and no, oddly enough, I don't dream about eve. much.)

Chopping your father's bits off?

5punk

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