Cable Wireless Router needed

lazer46 · 5 Jul 2010 at 22:46

My friend has Virgin Media and wants a Wireless Cable Router. Can anyone recommend a good but cheap make / model? Cheers

Rainmaker · 5 Jul 2010 at 22:58

lazer46 said:
good but cheap

The two tend to be mutually exclusive, to a large degree. What does he need the router to do? Wireless G or N? Which package is he on? If it's 20 meg or below wireless G will do fine, though N is a bit more 'future proof' should he decide to upgrade to 50 megs plus later on.

A WRT54GL with Tomato on it would be great for 20 megs. The Asus RT-N16 is great for 50 megs but a bit dearer... As I said, mutually exclusive.

lazer46 · 5 Jul 2010 at 23:34

Wireless G is fine. Its for his disabled daughter in the house. Wants to spend as little as poss.

Rainmaker · 5 Jul 2010 at 23:36

lazer46 said:
Wireless G is fine. Its for his disabled daughter in the house. Wants to spend as little as poss.

Look around for a WRT54GL or an early WRT54G (not the new ones as they're not Linux compatible, and thus can't run Tomato firmware). I sold one in MM for £25 yesterday, you missed it!

They do keep popping up though, so just have a look here and on certain auction websites etc.

Good luck.