Need a new CABLE Router.

InvaderGIR

InvaderGIR

InvaderGIR

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Well the brilliant (:rolleyes:) Belkin F5D7230UK4 I bought from the purple shirted people has died. I bought it in August, and it's been on 24/7 and died earlier this week...much to my amusement as I'm not currently at my uni house where it is. :D

What I'm wondering though is what's a good cable router these days? The Belkin is cheap at £40 and that's about all it has going for it. I'm after something with 4 10/100 ports, and has WiFi. Ideally it should also have a decent web interface, unlike the Belkin's naff one.

From looking around I'm probably going to have to up my spending to something like £60.
I only bought the Belkin as I needed one straight away at the beginning of term, and now the house mates that are in the house currently have done some really quite 'special' set up, something like a ringbus setup because they don't understand Proxying (which is sodding simple and they are ALL computing students).

Anyhow, now it doesn't matter so much when I get the router I figured I may as well get one online, but I don't know what is good and what is not. I understand networking etc. so it doesn't have to be a stupidly simple thing like the Belkin.
At home-home we have ADSL and have a Linksys router, which is great, but unfortunately I couldn't see any for Cable.

All help for a new router welcome.

InvG
 
This thing? Looks ugly as sin!

I forgot to mention, I've had Netgear stuff and they died lots. I also want one with proper holes in it for heat, the Belkin did not have them and I think that is part of what aided it's departure.

InvG
 
Caged said:
Sorry I forgot you wanted something that looked nice as opposed to something that worked.
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:p No, don't care what it looks like. Just thought I'd say it. :p

It won't be in my room, but I will have all the passwords etc. as my house mates aren't the most sensible of people.

Does Tomato have an internal IP network monitor thing? So can I monitor each PC's bandwidth and useage? As that would be quite handy, not needed, but handy. :)

EDIT - Cheers for the info Caged, I shall certainly look into it more, especially as it isn't too badly priced compared to what I was looking at. :)

InvG
 
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Ok, cool. Looks like I shall be ordering that one, on Monday (damn loans).

Will be nice to have a device that actually works, rather than randomly faffs about and half works. :)

InvG
 
Bringing this back to life...

As I can't see it on the Tomato site (may be being blind), does Tomato allow full blocking of things like Torrents?

EDIT - Can it log http requests?

InvG
 
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Ok, got the router today, before I did anything I installed Tomato on it. Much nicer interface and to use than the linksys firmware.

Now I'm trying to set up the bandwidth monitor to save every 24 hours, to a drive on my box that's constantly on. I have it saving and everything, but I have run into a problem.

The file it exports is a *.gz which I can extract with WinRAR but all I get is a file with no extension, so I don't know how to read it.

How do I go about reading my bandwidth monitor files?

EDIT: I have checked the FAQ, the Readme and Wiki and it isn't mentioned anywhere.

InvG
 
Yeah, I have that set up, and it outputs a file. The problem I'm having is being on my PC and trying to read the file, I have WinRAR extracting the *.gz and then there being a file that has no extension, which means I can't read of view it.

It's all well and good being able to have these logs, but not if I can't read them :(

I run Firefox and Vista at the moment.

EDIT: So basically I can only open them via the router?

InvG
 
Foxtrot26 said:
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Down the road? surely that's not all that good, I mean it's great that it has a huge range, but means more people can try to use it.

By the way I bought the Linksys, just didn't want to waste space by making more threads. :)

ns400r said:
See my edit above.
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I did one too. :p

So it saves all of them to memory, but saves the one you set to another PC as well to provide backups?

InvG
 
Ah ok, that's cool, as I plan on keeping data for ages. My machine is on 24/7 so it makes no odds as to space and when it updates etc. :)

I'll look for log viewers, was completely confused as to what to look for. :)

Cheers for the help. :)

InvG
 
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