Best router

[vicki2]

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.

[Jason425]

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

[vicki2]

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!

[FatalityShard]

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.

[StinkyMojo]

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

[Aemon_]

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

[vicki2]

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.

[Gotham Dark Knight]

Originally Posted by vicki2

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)

[Jason425]

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

[smartkid]

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.