Spec me an ADSL2+ wirless router plz

ukSleek · 24 Oct 2007 at 07:06

Coz i havn't a clue..currently using a wired router..

Regards.

Scope · 24 Oct 2007 at 10:44

I'll be following this thread as I too need to buy a wireless router w/ADSL2+.

Netgear DG834N seems to be a good one, anybody got anything bad to say about it?

Columbo · 24 Oct 2007 at 10:48

Do you want to use the wireless function for online gaming?

wij · 24 Oct 2007 at 11:22

I've got a DG834N here, had no trouble so far and the pre-n wireless seems to work very well with my MacBook Pro.

Only thing I miss from my old DrayTek routers was the QoS features and the bandwidth throttling on a port/vlan basis.

Hyper · 24 Oct 2007 at 11:41

Netgear DG834G

daveyp · 24 Oct 2007 at 12:00

Netgear DG834N

philhoole · 24 Oct 2007 at 13:51

Scope said:
I'll be following this thread as I too need to buy a wireless router w/ADSL2+.

Netgear DG834N seems to be a good one, anybody got anything bad to say about it?

I did have a few things bad to say about it but I'm now much happier. My biggest problem with the DG834N was that I couldn't get wireless to work with any consitency. I could put my laptop a couple of feet away from it and it would connect for a few seconds and then drop. The answer was to change the wireless channel from "Auto" to "12" and it has been flawless all over the house ever since. I have no idea why this should be but it works so I'm not worrying about it ! Works fine with my XBox360 via wireless too.

Otherwise it seems to work as advertised.

Muffin` · 24 Oct 2007 at 14:04

Anything on offer from Linksys? I'm in the market right now too, would rather not go with Netgear but its better then the BeBrick

wij · 24 Oct 2007 at 14:59

[DW]Muffin;10341992 said:
Anything on offer from Linksys? I'm in the market right now too, would rather not go with Netgear but its better then the BeBrick

Assuming you are with Be* from your comment, you would actually be best off getting a Netgear as they use Broadcom modem chipsets which are what is recomended by Be* as it matches the DSLAMS they use in their exchanges.

mo786 · 24 Oct 2007 at 18:39

does anyone know what the difference is between the Netgear routers than end in N and G and which is better/why?

tolien · 24 Oct 2007 at 18:45

One does 54Mbps 802.11g and the other does 300mbps 802.11n - depending on the adapter you use.

ukSleek · 24 Oct 2007 at 19:02

ManCuBuS said:
Do you want to use the wireless function for online gaming?

Hi,just got in from work,thanks for the posts.

As for online gaming yes from my PC and at a later date i'll be getting a console as well.

What Netgear model do you reccomend?

EDIT: i forgot to mention i'll be upgrading to BE broadband in November

Muffin` · 25 Oct 2007 at 14:49

wij said:
Assuming you are with Be* from your comment, you would actually be best off getting a Netgear as they use Broadcom modem chipsets which are what is recomended by Be* as it matches the DSLAMS they use in their exchanges.

Thanks.

ukSleek · 25 Oct 2007 at 18:14

Just out of interest atm i am using a SpeedTouch 516(v5) Multi-User ADSL2+ Gateway router..will this be ok for BE Broadband until i decide to go wireless? (i've had it for ages)

http://www.thomson-broadband.co.uk/codepages/content3.asp?c=7&ProductID=540

wij · 25 Oct 2007 at 21:38

ukSleek said:
Just out of interest atm i am using a SpeedTouch 516(v5) Multi-User ADSL2+ Gateway router..will this be ok for BE Broadband until i decide to go wireless? (i've had it for ages)

http://www.thomson-broadband.co.uk/codepages/content3.asp?c=7&ProductID=540

Be* provide a Speedtouch 700somthing with some custom firmware on it to their customers, it has wireless and for most uses is more than adequate, I just choose not to use it and I also wanted the faster wireless speeds for my laptop that are provided by the DG834N.

Scope · 26 Oct 2007 at 10:11

Is it SNMP that is used to measure usage, etc? Is this available on the DG834N?