A wired router that can handle heavy traffic?

cabbage · 22 Oct 2006 at 21:22

Hi all,

Me and 3 other guys have just moved into a house and were looking for a wired router (house prewired with CAT5 to all rooms) that can handle heavy traffic. A problem Ive had with previous routers is that they often crash and block all connections for about 30 seconds when used heavily (MMORPG's on several comps, Bittorrent (legal shareware). And since were all avid online gamers this would be a problem

As a comparison of what weve tried, the Belkin F5D5230-4 gave up the ghost within minites, and the Netgear WGR614 (wireless yes, but just using the wired ports) didnt last more than 30 mins beofre needing to be reset.

If no 'home' routers are suitable, are there maybe proffesional ones that dont cost too much?

Loz

oldbag · 22 Oct 2006 at 21:23

What about a cisco 857?

Selekt0r · 22 Oct 2006 at 23:40

One of the Draytek Vigor range should do the job nicely. I've got a Vigor 2600+ and it has never locked up or reset - that's with several PC's using the net at the same time, including gaming, torrents and work VPN.

cabbage · 23 Oct 2006 at 00:24

thanks for those. Theyre both ADSL ones, and weve got a cable modem (/w NTL), i spose the other products from those companies are good as well? Any specific ones to avoid from Draytek or Cisco?

Loz

cabbage · 23 Oct 2006 at 00:55

Eyup, toms-networking did a big round up of home routers for heavy use (p2p and gaming) and they loved the D-Link DGL4100 (4300 for wireless version) aparently. Anyone heard of it?

edit: damn things been discontinued in the UK

They do still do the DI 634M tho which that roundup liked as well, so i guess thatll have to do.

cabbage · 29 Oct 2006 at 01:39

Heya thought I'd bring this back up.

Got my D-Link DI 634M a few days ago. So far is wokring near flawlessly, with 2 peeps having hvy p2p usage, and 4 of us LAN gaming

One net block (enough to log out messenger), net was back up within 20 secs and no resets.

So, all in all, If your looking for an affordable home router that can handle heavy traffic, the D-Link DI634M is a good one

Loz