Need a good, reliable router for 10-15 devices

[Legthigh]

So I'm on my 2nd O2 Wireless box and in my own opinion they just can't cope with what I have set up here, constantly resetting and just generally seem to be struggling when everyone's home and switched on.

So I'm on the lookout for a new router that is reliable and can take at least 4 wired devices and anywhere from 5-10 wireless devices without throwing a fit.

Traffic shaping of some sorts would be great too.

Budget is sub-£100

 

[whitecrook]

how many people? For that budget a pfsense itx box might be a good bet. Stick squid on there and have a proxy to cache to improve performance.

 

[Legthigh]

how many people? For that budget a pfsense itx box might be a good bet. Stick squid on there and have a proxy to cache to improve performance.

It's 5 people but I work from home doing PC repairs and usually have a couple of pc's set up on my workbench copying stuff across the network or running windows update etc.

 

[whitecrook]

You want to look at caching the windows updates, this saves loads of time and bandwidth.

Get a good switch, netgear FS or HP do highly recommended unmanaged switches.

 

[CrimsonAvenger]

You want to look at caching the windows updates, this saves loads of time and bandwidth.

Get a good switch, netgear FS or HP do highly recommended unmanaged switches.

I'd second the switch idea. All the wired connections go to the 1Gb Netgear switch at home with a single connection into my router.

The switch will cope far better than your average router with this.