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Purchasing a wireless router
Alistair Hutton
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I'm going to be buying a wireless router and am trying to decided which of the many options I have available to me.
No computer in the falt will be more than 20 feet away from the router although the walls in the falt are reasonably solid. I'm looking to do online gaming so a router that puts in big latency spikes is not looked upon favourably.
I have my eye on THIS router. Any horror storys or knowledge that it's entirely innapropriate?
No computer in the falt will be more than 20 feet away from the router although the walls in the falt are reasonably solid. I'm looking to do online gaming so a router that puts in big latency spikes is not looked upon favourably.
I have my eye on THIS router. Any horror storys or knowledge that it's entirely innapropriate?
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I do know that with my stock WAP I saw a 5-10ms difference between wired and wireless (wired being better).
I can comment on what I own though. I own a lower end D-Link router and I am only marginally satisfied with it. My biggest qualm is issues with the number of connections open. When I have something like BitTorrent running, if I don't limit the number of connection to something like 100 connections or less, my router will sometimes get overloaded. Not really a huge deal if it just refused to open additional connections, however rather than handling the situation gracefully, the router just crashes and restarts itself.
I also had an issue with a faulty wireless card in a seperate computer connecting to my D-Link router. I guess every now and then the wirless card would send a bad signal to the router and it would crash the router, and I'd have to manually power cycle the thing. When I replaced the faulty wireless card (with a loose antenae) the problem went away, but I was not impressed with how the router handled bad data.
Like I said, what I have is a lower end D-Link router, so the more expensive stuff (like what Ruckus linked to) might be better, but I have not had good experiences with them.