Best router
 

I live in a rural area and from time to time, there are cluster drop outs in my broadband service. So, many times I have to unplug the router for an hour and reset it. Big pain, but endless investigations haven't come up with anything as the cause. So, I need to buy a back up router and since it's always the router in question (never ever the incoming broadband lol), I thought I'd ask what the thoughts are here on a good router.

I'm currently using a net gear one.

i'm starting to think about a linksys... I my AT&T wireless router kinda sucks, but the netgear one I had was worse... :(

Guess I really have to shop around ...at PC World, they highly recommended the netgear one. And, I'm still not certain that the dropouts are due to the router, but I need a back up anyway. Just what I wanted to spend money on this weekend!

I have a d-link and have had no problems with it, the only thing bad about it is that it sort of has a difficult setup feature.

yea you want linksys for complete simplicity. they make very nice routers.

i have a linksys wireless G router, i don't use the wireless though, my last employer sent it to me and told me to keep it when i left.

before that, i was using an old P166 running SmoothWall (linux) as my router/firewall.

later

I'll look for a lynksys since that seems to be a good consensus brand.

It's wierd about these cluster disconnects. I'm beginning to think it isn't the router at all. This weekend there have been none at all, and they're happening with too much regularity from 2 p.m. until 6 p.m.

I am told CB radios can affect broadband, and it may be that there are so many tractors running this time of year (planting season) that the interference is coming from them. It's a puzzle.

I am going out on a limb here and guessing its a scheduled Alien attack on our current technologies...they want to push us towards lynksys because it will help coordinate the Invasion... :) ...look its just a theory...

(I have fallen for their ploy...I like lynksys by the way...just a lamp being pushed towards the intergalactic slaughter house)

But momma, I don't want to go to the intergalactic slaughter house!

linksys i have had few problems with, netgears cheep wireless router kicks you off every 5 minites (im not the only one it happens to) and the company ignores the issue becuse they know its a hardware problem.

Agreed... netgear is garbage... they won't update their firmware, and when they do, it doesn't fix it!

i use netgear and think it is great. i have had no problems at all and the range on it is brilliant.

I'll add one more vote to the reliability of the Linksys, of all the people who own one, I have never heard enough bad things about it to shove it aside.

I own both a netgear and a linksys, and even though the netgear works as my access router, currently, I still prefer the linksys head and shoulders. It is just a more solid piece of equipment with more solid software.

solid = good!

Does that make netgear liquid?

I'm cool with netgear, fortunately its never caused any trouble at all for me but maybe I'm just lucky.

consider yourself very lucky

I know I'm just repeating what's already said, but, Linksys is the best option, hands down. They make everything on their equipment well, right down to the power cord; the plug extends from the transformer so it doesn't take up 2 or 3 outlets. That's of course excluding Cisco, but Ciscos are very expensive and can be a pain to configure since they're so almighty powerful.