What's the best cable router these days?

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I've owned a linksys WRT54GS for 5 years now and it's fantastic (with tomato installed).

However I have moved out of my parents and left it behind, now I'm stuck with a virgin media branded belkin job which is pants, I need to reboot it twice a day to get it to work with certain sites. I have no interest in trying to fix it as I hate belkin network equipment.

So my question is, what's the best router to buy to replace it? No requirements other than wireless and stability.
 
On Virgin media (i have a 50Mb link), I had problems with Netgear and Linksys routers (**** at routing consoles).

But i got a Belkin N1 Vison (yes i know u dont like them), but it been rock solid...
 
Depends what your budget is.

This commands a lot of respect and will meet all your needs and be relatively future proof for years to come. I dont think you can flash the firmware on them (might be wrong?), but I dont think you'd really need to.

edit: read thread title
 
Im on Virgin and have a Linksys WRT610N with the latest DD-WRT firmware on it and it is great - rock solid with all the features I could want. Expensive, but worth it...
 
paradigm said:
Lol @ consumer grade router (let alone a netgear) "commanding a lot of respect".
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Take the right consumer grade router (WNR3500L/RT-N16), add Teddy bear's tomato, get a very, very god router for the price.

Easily the best choice considering the op. That said it depends entirely on how you use it. My WRT54GL is still running 1.25 RAF mod and will be for along, long time yet. A 54GL can work well on virgin's 50meg* if you don't push qos/connections too hard and you can find them for ~£30 these days. If you're panning on keeping it longer, and want better speeds one of the above would be better.

*You failed to mention your line speed.
 
My cable speed is currenly only 10mb although I might go up to 50mb in the future.

The 3500L looks good, it's a little more than I was wanting to spend but with Tomato it should be very powerful and I do love the open source aspect.

Thanks all
 
The DIR615 @ £10 with DD-WRT is a pretty good buy :) I personally use a WRT610N but it's pretty expensive for what it is.
 
Go onto the dd-wrt forums and see which routers people are having problems with or even ask for a recommendation on the best router to get, Once there flashed with dd-wrt it really comes down to whats under the hood.
 
I just received my Linksys WRT610N and it's probably the best thing you can find, I would definitely recommend it (as would my friends who are internet guru's and know this sortof thing).
 
I have virgin 20mb connection with a Netgear WNR3500L with Tomato 1.28 beta 18 on and it is faster than my previous wrt54gl with tomato especially with multiple connections. The main reason I got this is because of the tomato support, although still in beta it is very solid with no crashes.
 
Saltank said:
I just received my Linksys WRT610N and it's probably the best thing you can find, I would definitely recommend it (as would my friends who are internet guru's and know this sortof thing).
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Any advice getting this setup? Bought one for someone at work who is on vm and it'll show wirelessly, but will not allow any Internet activity via cable or wireless :(
 
Its pretty much plug ethernet from cable modem to WAN port, job done. It may take a little while to get an IP address the first time round as the WAN port MAC address will be different to what he was connected to before, maybe an hour or so, but it will work.
 
Switch the modem off and back on with nothing connected to it then wait a few minutes before connecting the router.
 
RedGooner said:
On Virgin media (i have a 50Mb link), I had problems with Netgear and Linksys routers (**** at routing consoles).

But i got a Belkin N1 Vison (yes i know u dont like them), but it been rock solid...
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the belkin n1 vision had problems with my pc games CS source (causing 5 seconds of screen freeze every 15 minutes). it also booted me out of games of fifa halfway through them on my ps3. both of these problems were solved by changing to the supplied 615 and dd-wrt.
 
Zap said:
I've owned a linksys WRT54GS for 5 years now and it's fantastic (with tomato installed).

However I have moved out of my parents and left it behind, now I'm stuck with a virgin media branded belkin job which is pants, I need to reboot it twice a day to get it to work with certain sites. I have no interest in trying to fix it as I hate belkin network equipment.

So my question is, what's the best router to buy to replace it? No requirements other than wireless and stability.
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Why not just get your other one from your parents house
 
If your budget goes that far, the WNDR3700 by Netgear is actually really good. But it could be rather over-specified for your requirements... if you want simultaneous dual-band wireless N though and Gigabit though, you can't go wrong with this one! Open-source firmwares (DD-WRT) are on their way too...
 
I'm using the DLink 615 which came from VM but flashed with DD-WRT firmware - seems stable and good to me.
 
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