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Hi chaps,
I'm in a Uni house at the moment, and we have a 10Mb NTL connection. We need a router that:
a) Works with Cable, not ADSL
b) Has Wireless + 4 Ethernet ports
c) Is not crap
Part c) is as follows... We originally started with an Oldish Netgear Wireless router. It was OK, but randomly disconnected and wouldn't work with Encryption. Fine, we thought, we'd go out and buy a new one. We Went with a Belkin G+ model. From day 1 this was shoddy... wireless signal was crap and it slowed the entire network down when we used it.
Again, fine we thought, and took it back to the hell-hole of a shop that I won't mention. After throwing some terms like "packet loss" and "TCP sliding windows" (grade A BS basically), the guy agreed that we could swap it for something else. We opted for the Netgear WPN824 v2 RangeMAX Wireless router. Hurrah, finally, we had the option to use wireless around the house! Everything was going peachy, too, until we fired up BitTorrent.
Oh dear.
The WPN824 has a really low "Max connections" limit, which basically means that as soon as 1 of us starts torrenting the whole thing grinds to a stop. We can't be doing with this, as we, er, download lots of legal things through BitTorrent and as such we need a router that doesn't crap out on us.
Basically, please can we have a router that can support BitTorrent connections and not actually freeze up on us. It's not too much to ask really. There will be 5 PC (3 using BitTorrent) and we would also like throttling (QoS) so we all get a fair share.
Thanks for any help received.
I'm in a Uni house at the moment, and we have a 10Mb NTL connection. We need a router that:
a) Works with Cable, not ADSL
b) Has Wireless + 4 Ethernet ports
c) Is not crap
Part c) is as follows... We originally started with an Oldish Netgear Wireless router. It was OK, but randomly disconnected and wouldn't work with Encryption. Fine, we thought, we'd go out and buy a new one. We Went with a Belkin G+ model. From day 1 this was shoddy... wireless signal was crap and it slowed the entire network down when we used it.
Again, fine we thought, and took it back to the hell-hole of a shop that I won't mention. After throwing some terms like "packet loss" and "TCP sliding windows" (grade A BS basically), the guy agreed that we could swap it for something else. We opted for the Netgear WPN824 v2 RangeMAX Wireless router. Hurrah, finally, we had the option to use wireless around the house! Everything was going peachy, too, until we fired up BitTorrent.
Oh dear.
The WPN824 has a really low "Max connections" limit, which basically means that as soon as 1 of us starts torrenting the whole thing grinds to a stop. We can't be doing with this, as we, er, download lots of legal things through BitTorrent and as such we need a router that doesn't crap out on us.
Basically, please can we have a router that can support BitTorrent connections and not actually freeze up on us. It's not too much to ask really. There will be 5 PC (3 using BitTorrent) and we would also like throttling (QoS) so we all get a fair share.
Thanks for any help received.
