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Nismo

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Registered: 12th Sep 02
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15th Aug 08 at 18:35

Yo Yo Yo, My 3com router dies the other night after a big storm, so looking to buy a new router.

After a decent one, not really interested in Netgear or any BT crap.

Any people have any Linksys or D-link ones? needs to do DYNDNS and the usual extra features.

Tempted by the Draytek Vigor, which has 2 WANs and can have 3g Backup too (we use them at work) loads of features!

But there like £160+

Anyway recommend me what you have and how you rate it

cunningham

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Registered: 25th May 05
Location: Lochore, Fife
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15th Aug 08 at 18:47

just curious whats wrong with netgear and bt?

Nismo

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15th Aug 08 at 18:48

I personally feel that netgears at cheap and have issues (previous experiance when working for an ISP)

and well BT voyagers and what not, where shall i start

Kurt

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Registered: 23rd Oct 05
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15th Aug 08 at 18:51

my bt homehub is fine

cunningham

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15th Aug 08 at 18:52

quote:
Originally posted by Kurt
my bt homehub is fine

im the same although i want the black one would go with the ps3 and tv look

Kurt

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15th Aug 08 at 18:56

quote:
Originally posted by cunningham

quote:
Originally posted by Kurt
my bt homehub is fine

im the same although i want the black one would go with the ps3 and tv look

i know what you mean! theyre meant to be improved too! but only new customers can have them

Aaron

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Registered: 9th Aug 04
Location: Cottingham, East Riding
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15th Aug 08 at 19:00

Netgear DG834G

Hasn't missed a beat in 3 years

cunningham

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Registered: 25th May 05
Location: Lochore, Fife
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15th Aug 08 at 19:03

my 18 month contract is up im going to try blag one of the black ones

dannymccann

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Registered: 9th Aug 06
Location: Doddington, Lincolnshire
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16th Aug 08 at 07:39

quote:
Originally posted by Aaron
Netgear DG834G

Hasn't missed a beat in 3 years

Mine hasnt and nor has my dad's

- they are both on 24/7, my dad's has to handle a constant download speed of 300 - 500kbps pretty much all day and night and then theres the wireless computers its connected to as well

DONT GO FOR A BTHOMEHUB, THEY ARE A CROCK OF SHITE

[Edited on 16-08-2008 by dannymccann]

Ant

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Registered: 12th May 02
Location: Hereford and Worcester
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16th Aug 08 at 09:21

as above been running a dg834g for 3 years now with not a single issue

Marc

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Registered: 11th Aug 02
Location: York
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16th Aug 08 at 09:24

I have a 3Com too, constantly drops out, I'm pretty sure its the router as I've changed providers 3 times now!

Tim

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16th Aug 08 at 09:40

I've been through a few. Draytek Vigor I used to have would only achieve 7Mbps on ADSL2+ (Netgear achieved 18Mbps). That Draytek above does look pretty well specced though

Best router I've had in a while is the free one from Be* (Speedtouch 780WL). Hassle free and the CLI lets you do pretty much whatever you want...

Also has two VoIP ports, backup PSTN, etc, etc.

flame1987

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Registered: 20th Nov 06
Location: North Wales
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16th Aug 08 at 17:50

quote:
Originally posted by Aaron
Netgear DG834G

Hasn't missed a beat in 3 years

Same here really good routers, so easy to setup with an abundance of features

flame1987

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Registered: 20th Nov 06
Location: North Wales
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16th Aug 08 at 17:51

quote:
Originally posted by Nismo
Yo Yo Yo, My 3com router dies the other night after a big storm, so looking to buy a new router.

After a decent one, not really interested in Netgear or any BT crap.

Any people have any Linksys or D-link ones? needs to do DYNDNS and the usual extra features.

Tempted by the Draytek Vigor, which has 2 WANs and can have 3g Backup too (we use them at work) loads of features!

But there like £160+

Anyway recommend me what you have and how you rate it

We only use Draytek in work, and have put quite a few of these routers in recently very good replacement for the older 2800g

James_DT

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Registered: 9th Apr 04
Location: Cambridgeshire
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16th Aug 08 at 18:28

I've got a Netgear DG834GT, it's never caused a problem on two different ISPs. Supports DynDNS etc. too.

Mussolini

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16th Aug 08 at 18:59

had a netgear had intermittent wireless problems with it, wont go netgear again. Got a D-link MIMO, works well

Welsh Dan

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16th Aug 08 at 21:11

I have two. A Netgear DG834G (which we've had no problems with) and a Linksys (which is Cisco) WRT54G (which i've never had any problems with either).

[Edited on 16-08-2008 by Welsh Dan]

Ash_EP3

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Registered: 15th May 07
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16th Aug 08 at 21:27

quote:
Originally posted by Aaron
Netgear DG834G

Hasn't missed a beat in 3 years

FTW

Andrew

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16th Aug 08 at 23:47

quote:
Originally posted by Aaron
Netgear DG834G

Hasn't missed a beat in 3 years

These tend to fall over when put under load. Version 3 is a little better.

Agreed that the BT Home Hub is very poor. Mine used to die 2 - 3 times a week.

Currently i have a Thompson router from Sky which has not fallen over once in 3 months

Sunz

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Registered: 12th Jan 07
Location: SE England
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17th Aug 08 at 01:57

quote:
Originally posted by S214_UPP

quote:
Originally posted by Aaron
Netgear DG834G

Hasn't missed a beat in 3 years

FTW

Once again same router and its been faultless

Dom

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Registered: 13th Sep 03
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17th Aug 08 at 08:49

Got a netgear here, WGT6t24v3 no problems what so ever

Bart

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Registered: 19th Aug 02
Location: Midsomer Norton, Bristol Avon
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17th Aug 08 at 15:36

I have the netgear DG834PN, but im tempted to get the Linksys WRT160N

Dual band 5ghz (can run in dual band mode for supported clients, ie file transfer/video streaming will run off one band and other clients surfing will run off the other band. if theres little client traffic, the video streaming will use both bands).

I dont have any experience with it, but the previous version (without the N) comes highly recommended on every website/forum.

[Edited on 17-08-2008 by Bart]

Nismo

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Registered: 12th Sep 02
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24th Aug 08 at 10:05

Went for this in the end.

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/119456