Girls and hardware, NO! *slaps wrist* leave it to us men!

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This thread title is purely in jest ladies, put the pairing knife away! :eek:

Someone I know asked me which of the 2 Routers she linked to were the best (Linksys WRP VOIP router or a Netgear silver one, both under £30) and I pointed out the fact that for aonly a small amount more she can have a WRT54GL which is much more reliable and better, plus I can set it up nicely.

She responds back with the following little masterpiece :p

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hehehe... i looked at that one, but ignored it because it doesn't look as nice as the other two.
so typical me, everything must be pretty! hehee silly i know, what can i do i'm a girly girl.

c ya
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The WRT54G series look badass!!! *head 'splodes*


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In fairness I'd put the WRT54GL out of sight anyway so the looks are entirely unimportant or tell her that she could put something pretty on top of it instead. There are ways round things like that. ;)
 
Putting things on top of it though will block the air vents!

/me has his WRT on display so everyone can marvel at the flishy flashy lights ^_^
 
isnt the WRT54G only for cable, and not ADSL?.. i was considering this before i realised that :D... but now im on o2 broadband.. cant be bothered to figure out which one to get that will work..


tell her to put a brown paper bag over it.
 
I had nothing but issues with Linksys kit.

Just because their a division of Cisco it doesn't mean they're any good unfortuately, at least in my experience!
 
Lol women.

Also for a WRT54GL with Tomato. I simply cannot believe the value for money. Shade over £30 for what I reckon is better than most £60 routers out there.

Only weakness is with stock antennas wireless is only "ok". But unless you spend £100 on a router at stock nothings likely to beat it!

Amazing bit of kit.
 
I don't see what's so wrong with what she said actually. Let's just hope she doesn't buy a tacky Thermaltake case and put horrible neon lights inside.
 
Well the ones she chose had a single aerial and the machines using the wireless will be laptops so dual aerials would be best suited with the ability to boost the signal via firmware :)


WRT54GL = Answer to all problems!
 
I've used Tomato on my WRT54GSv1.0 since Oct 06, and previous to that, DD-WRT, HyperWRT, and Sveasoft's Alchemy.

This router is by far the best value for money to be had, probably for below £200. Spend that much, and you can get a Draytek or Zyxel with QoS that can match what the WRT can do for £30!

It's the little things that matter too...every cheap consumer router I've ever used has a tiny port forward limit, or it won't allow you to forward ranges, or worse, a combination of both!

I've seen few with the ability to allow you to statically assign IP's to MAC addresses, and none at all that can intercept port 53 (DNS) to stop clever users on your network from using different DNS servers ;)

My WRT is getting on now, probably time to look for something to replace it when it dies...
 
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