What do you suggest in the $50 range?

Anything but a Lynksys. I've had two of them and gradually your internet connection will slow down until you can't connect at all. Rebooting fixed the problem but then it would start all over again. You could probably get a good Cisco router in your price range.

I've had good luck with Lynksis but my last go around the $200 ASUS had the signal strength coverage and bandwidth to actually run all my gear without slowdowns or crashes.

http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/20...d-wrt.html

(12-19-2013 10:06 PM)smn1256 Wrote:  Anything but a Lynksys. I've had two of them and gradually your internet connection will slow down until you can't connect at all. Rebooting fixed the problem but then it would start all over again. You could probably get a good Cisco router in your price range.

You know, Cisco owns Lynksys. In fact, Lynksys was a very good and stable router until Cisco bought them. Ever since, they all seem to act just like you said. I've had 2 quickly fade away on me.

Netgear WNDR3300. Works great.

Great timing for this thread...I had a cheap ($25) Belkin that worked fine for like 6 months. Two days ago, I was having some issues and did a factory reset...I even established a new connection and NONE of my devices can pick up a signal from it. My phone, my Roku's (streaming devices), laptop...nothing can pick up a signal.

Has anyone had an issue like this before? My cable company says my modem is outdated as well, but that shouldn't be causing this. Would Lynksis be the way to go fo rme new one?

I would suggest buying an Asus AC66 router. Yea, it is triple your budget. BUT IT IS WORTH IT.

No more reboots. No slow performance. Exception signal. Exceptional throughput. Exceptional build quality. Full dual band AC ( b < g < n < ac ). We're talking about slinging around speeds competitive with 100mbit wired LAN on your home network. No theoretical BS math ... real world performance.

Do you really want to chuck $50 into some plastic crapbox that can barely run 802.11n just so you can do it again in another few years when it craps out or you get tired of having to reset it all the time?


DO IT. http://www.amazon.com/RT-AC66U-Dual-Band...008ABOJKS/

I have a D-Link that I bought after Thanksgiving for about $30 and I have had it for probably 4 years and it has worked great.

As others have mentioned before that I had a Lynksys and it sucked....

http://reviews.cnet.com/routers/d-link-d...18042.html

or

http://reviews.cnet.com/routers/d-link-d...54030.html

Bothh D-links

(12-20-2013 10:23 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  I would suggest buying an Asus AC66 router. Yea, it is triple your budget. BUT IT IS WORTH IT.

No more reboots. No slow performance. Exception signal. Exceptional throughput. Exceptional build quality. Full dual band AC ( b < g < n < ac ). We're talking about slinging around speeds competitive with 100mbit wired LAN on your home network. No theoretical BS math ... real world performance.

Do you really want to chuck $50 into some plastic crapbox that can barely run 802.11n just so you can do it again in another few years when it craps out or you get tired of having to reset it all the time?


DO IT. http://www.amazon.com/RT-AC66U-Dual-Band...008ABOJKS/

I'm with ya on dual band AC. A few weeks ago I upgraded to a linksys AC1900 that I bought for $200 and some change at Best Buy. It rocks with speed and range and comes with 3 adjustable antennas. I needed a higher performace wireless router since my family of four all spend time on the internet. This may not be for everyone but I agree that you get what you pay for and it's worth it to spend more now for quality and performance.

Went with the wife and bought a Belkin 300. It will be going back very soon and the budget will be expanded. Wow it sucks.

(12-23-2013 11:12 PM)GrayBeard Wrote:  Went with the wife and bought a Belkin 300. It will be going back very soon and the budget will be expanded. Wow it sucks.

You are going to end up paying for some **** box built to a price far lower than you're paying so that every big box can get their fat markup. And you're going to do it over. And over. And buy the time you come to your senses and get an Asus AC66U, you will have already paid for one with 3 or 4 or 5 **** boxes.

It was the road I traveled as well, it just took me longer because I flashed open source Linux firmware onto my routers.

A Linksys wireless B* ($50) that was bone stock ... and needed a weekly reset.

A Linksys "Open Source" WRT54G* ($40) flashed with Tomato ... that was very slow and needed a bi-weekly reset.

An Engenius G that was much more expensive ($80), came with the full feature set out of the box, and was rock solid ... but a wireless bridge over G is just preposterously slow. I was only able to push about 7 mbit of my 30 mbit connection through the bridge.

A D-Link DIR-615* N ($40) flashed with DD-WRT ... that was flashed with DD-WRT. It was able to get about 22 mbit of my 30 mbit connection across the wireless bridge, but needed a bi-DAILY reset and sometimes would go full tard and need to be completely reconfigured. Used mixed beta DD-WRT firmware (diff version on bridge and router due to bugs in Atheros chipset) and pushed that to weekly reset.

And now an Asus AC66U dual band AC ($150). 5 GHz dedicated to the bridge. 2.4 GHz for general purpose and guest traffic. Able to push the full 30mbit and then some. Full feature set right out of the box. I've only had to reset it once in 6 months of use and that was only because it stopped issuing DHCP leases ... everybody who had a lease was still renewing it and staying online.



* "Crippleware" stock firmware ... the chipset supports bridging and other features but they are left intentionally not implemented in firmware to force you to buy more expensive products that are the same hardware. This can be remedied by flashing open source Linux firmware like DD-WRT ... but only some models are supported, and some chipsets have nasty bugs in their drivers.

(12-24-2013 05:40 AM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  * "Crippleware" stock firmware

I despise this stuff. Windows 7 Starter, the pointless OS which came included on netbooks a few years back, didn't have internet connection sharing. Definitely wasn't a hardware issue...