What cable router without wireless ?

Ice Tea · 9 Nov 2007 at 10:08

What cable router without wireless ?

Are they all the same or do any stand out from the rest.

thanks

Avalon · 9 Nov 2007 at 17:37

WRT54GL and click the disable wifi option ? Smoothwall/M0n0wall ?

Thebug · 9 Nov 2007 at 19:02

Avalon said:
WRT54GL and click the disable wifi option ? Smoothwall/M0n0wall ?

Seconded as they are around about the same price and you might want wireless in the future.

Ice Tea · 10 Nov 2007 at 00:44

Thanks for the reply but i've just been told that i will need a gigabit router when VirginMedia upgrade to 50Mb internet in the new year is that true ?

Chong Warrior · 10 Nov 2007 at 01:10

50mb? They might want to get their 20mb service running properly first, I've yet to see mine get anywhere near flat out yet, it's more like 10mb.

Ice Tea · 10 Nov 2007 at 01:26

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/07/virgin_media_results/

"Virgin confirmed the next stage of efforts to further differentiate itself by ramping maximum downloads speeds up to 50Mb/s in 2008. To that end, it's reviewing an implementation of DOCSIS 3, a newer cable standard, which is capable of downloads in the hundreds of megabits per second."

Ice Tea · 12 Nov 2007 at 23:54

Just got an Email from Netgear.

"For such fast internet connections, we recommend that you buy business class products. The FVS114 will have the firewall throughput you need to support a 20Mbps connection."

From the specs it has 100Mb WAN as opposed to 10Mb WAN on most other routers.

Caged · 13 Nov 2007 at 00:16

That's a lie - Netgears business gateways are incredibly underspecced. Here's the datasheet:

http://www.netgear.co.uk/pdfs/FVS114_DS.pdf

Throughput: Up to 11.5 Mbps WAN-to-LAN,
up to 2.1 Mbps for 3DES throughput

In other words, it sucks. I hate to sound like some sort of Linux fanboy but your best bet is to get a nice small PC from the Pentium 3 era, put two proper NICs in (like Intels) and run m0n0wall on it.

Edit: Or buy a Juniper Netscreen of some description.

Chong Warrior · 13 Nov 2007 at 00:22

Hmm this thread has me thinking. Is my D-Link Dl-524 upto the job of my 20mb cable connection?

Sorry for jumping in your thread dude.

bledd · 13 Nov 2007 at 15:55

chong

do speedtest.net with & without router

Avalon · 14 Nov 2007 at 11:03

WAN to LAN is 53Mbs according to Small Net Builder's router chart for the WRT54GL. You could pay over the odds for a GB wan based router now or buy a GL and save some money for 12 months time when you actually need one, by that time they'll more than likely be cheaper/better anyway.

Chong Warrior · 15 Nov 2007 at 11:07

bledd. said:
chong

do speedtest.net with & without router

Seems the router is fine and it was Virgins fault as for the last 3 days I've been getting the same results from Speedtest. It was down to 2mb at times before and never seemed to go above 8mb, hence me thinking my router wasn't upto the job.