Blue Wizard needs new router badly.

Echo

So my router, a Netgear WGR514 (at least I think that was the model) keeps choking on a sack of dicks when torrents are involved, and I'm looking for something new to replace it.

Requirements: WLAN, routing, port forwarding, and the general basic stuff to be expected. Basically, something that doesn't choke on all the connections a torrent requires.

Thanatos

Dude, my Netgear wireless router totally does the same goddamn thing.

japan

I have a 3Com Officeconnect that I've had to power cycle about three times in the time I've owned it, and one of those was when I moved house.

It's taken some pretty heavy torrenting (multiple torrents running for days at a time on multiple machines), plus it seems to handle all the stuff I have connected to it (two desktops, two laptops, a file/webserver using two NICs, my Xbox media centre, a wireless bridge and a 5-port switch, a printer, and various guest laptops as required) OK.

The only issue I had was that it seemed to be dropping the bridge every so often, but setting the DHCP lease time to "forever" seemed to sort that out.

Echo

Thinatos wrote: »

Dude, my Netgear wireless router totally does the same goddamn thing.

The consumer-grade Netgear routers are pretty much crap and don't have enough memory/processing power to handle all the tons of connections a torrent typically uses.

Daedalus

Go to the DD-WRT website and pick anything that's on their compatability list. I'll save you some time and tell you that the Buffalo WHR-G125 is the cheapest option (at $40) and is surprisingly competent for the price, but if you want to spend an extra $20 you could go with the Linksys WRT54GL instead. (for fuck's sake don't forget the L!) Reflash it immediately after buying it; the stock firmware isn't that great. DD-WRT, on the other hand, is rock fucking solid.

Echo

That sounds like something that makes my geeky heart happy. :^:

Krikee

If you have an old, spare computer you could throw Smoothwall on it. I'm not sure what all it supports since I haven't used it yet but I've heard good things about it.

Silvertree

Daedalus wrote: »

Go to the DD-WRT website and pick anything that's on their compatability list. I'll save you some time and tell you that the Buffalo WHR-G125 is the cheapest option (at $40) and is surprisingly competent for the price, but if you want to spend an extra $20 you could go with the Linksys WRT54GL instead. (for fuck's sake don't forget the L!) Reflash it immediately after buying it; the stock firmware isn't that great. DD-WRT, on the other hand, is rock fucking solid.

What he said.

DeathPrawn

Silvertree wrote: »

Daedalus wrote: »

Go to the DD-WRT website and pick anything that's on their compatability list. I'll save you some time and tell you that the Buffalo WHR-G125 is the cheapest option (at $40) and is surprisingly competent for the price, but if you want to spend an extra $20 you could go with the Linksys WRT54GL instead. (for fuck's sake don't forget the L!) Reflash it immediately after buying it; the stock firmware isn't that great. DD-WRT, on the other hand, is rock fucking solid.

What he said.

Third'd.

I just picked up a WHR-G125 and flashed it, it's been serving my dorm of 20 people for two months now without a hitch.

Daedalus

disclaimer: Of course, you'd be instantly violating the warranty, but fuck it, it's some solid hardware. It's just the stock firmware that needs replacing.