Spec me a high end Router please

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I'm looking to buy a high end router, im fed up of the one VM gave me (DIR-615 have to restart it everyday) and I need, Reliability, Speed and Range.

Many Thanks
 
High end router and range do not go together.

A "High-end" router will be a router, not a router, switch and access point all-in-one.

The best thing you can do IMO is to stick dd-wrt on the 615. I had dd-wrt on my 615 and it was infinitely better than with the dlink firmware.
 
Just bought a Linksys WRT320N, and although its not true Dual Band (I don't even use wireless TBH), its been rock solid. Consistency of d/l speed has improved over my old Netgear 108Mbps thing.

Well recommended for the price (£65 ish if you shop around).
 
paradigm said:
High end router and range do not go together.

A "High-end" router will be a router, not a router, switch and access point all-in-one.

The best thing you can do IMO is to stick dd-wrt on the 615. I had dd-wrt on my 615 and it was infinitely better than with the dlink firmware.
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what i ment by high end is solid performance and reliability and somthing expensive, i want to invest into my network
 
Arthalen said:
Just bought a Linksys WRT320N, and although its not true Dual Band (I don't even use wireless TBH), its been rock solid. Consistency of d/l speed has improved over my old Netgear 108Mbps thing.

Well recommended for the price (£65 ish if you shop around).
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+1 with dd-wrt
Imo dd-wrt goes best with linksys. If you want the simultaneous dual band version the wrt610n is what your looking for.
 
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Depending on your budget, I can highly recommend the WRT610n. It does dual simultaneous wireless G/N, has gigabit ethernet ports and a pretty beefy processor (for a router anyway). And it supports DD-WRT, which is a huge bonus. £100~ from most places.
 
Caged said:
Spending lots of money on consumer network hardware is pointless, it's all crap to a certain extent.
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Have to agree really, I always struggle to recommend anything when people ask me as I think it's all complete garbage. Something running DD-wrt for £70 or so is about as good as you'll find until you spend £400 on a router and get a seperate wireless access point...
 
I know I've brought this up a couple of times but I'm still looking at building my own. It's not hard and doesn't have to be dear. The little plastic boxes you buy aren't ever going to be that great by their very nature.

You could recycle an old micro or mini ATX rig with a bit of RAM, two network cards and a wireless N card into a cracking wireless router for a few pounds. That or build a small Atom mobo onto some perspex/acrylic, add 1GB RAM (seeing as it's cheap) and a flash card for the OS and you're set. Good router distros include ClearOS, Untangle, Smoothwall and pfsense. That or just make your own from a Debian, Ubuntu Server, or CentOS bare bones install using Firestarter (with DHCP). I'm pretty sure DD-WRT do an x86 version of their software now too, as well; but I personally prefer the freedom of a bare-bones *nix or *BSD install.

You'd have something costing about the same as (or less, if you scavenge) a little consumer box but it'll be 10x more powerful, much more configurable, and will be able to function as a home and/or web server into the bargain.

Once I finally get around to getting some bits together I'll make a little tutorial of my efforts. :)
 
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