Recommend Wireless Broadband Router for NTL?

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hello all

i just got the netgear 834g for the bt line and it works a treat, can some one recommend me a wireless broadband router for the ntl broadband please.

Thanks
 
The Netgear ones are in my experience, a bit cruddy.

The WRT54GS is also a good choice, but the new versions (version 5 IIRC) don't have the ability to run the plethora of third party firmwares. If that isn't a concern to you, then you could get one of them.

Personally I'd do a quick google for the GL version.
 
is this the Linksys WRT54GL best one you used?

if so why?

i'll do dome googling and i,m not interested in anything else really aprt from running wirless network & net securly?

quick question

Security Options:

WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy)
WPA-PSK (Wi-Fi Protected Access Pre-Shared Key)
WPA-802.1x

is it wep thats recommended for security?

thanks
 
The best one I've used is a Cisco 871W, but I don't expect you want to spend that much.

I know several people who have the WRT54GS and GL and they're all happy with it.

WEP sucks, WPA is a much better option. Which particular flavour of WPA you should use depends on what equipment will be on your network. I use WPA-PSK with a nice long PSK (preshared key - essentially a password) because my laptops don't support WPA2 and so on.
 
hi

thanks for that

the gl version seeme to be much sought after i cant seem to find it i can get some info on it but not on where its avaiable?

thanks
 
You're not looking hard enough then - the first result on google.co.uk when I searched for "Linksys WRT54GL" was a UK supplier showing it in stock.
 
hi

managed to find some thing my bad bad spelling anway there some other version s i.e version 5 are there any i should stay away from or would be same as the gl one you recommended i know the difference it being on linux and more stable than the gs version.

thanks
 
Like I said, if you don't mind not being able to run third party firmware, then a v5 GS should be ok. Personally I wouldn't bother as they have less RAM then the v4's (and GL's) so if you run P2P clients you are more likely to run into connection problems due to the router hitting a hard limit of how many open connections it can have.
 
hi

thanks for getting back to me, i think the gl is the one as i dont really want any probs of any kind :)
 
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