Router recomendation requested.

Posts: 2 · New Forum Member Joined: Oct 10, 2004 Posts: 2

I have been fighting with an issue of dropped service now for about 6 months. It occurs in sporatic times. Example: I'll go for 3 weeks without incident and then in (1) day, I have to reset my modem, ATA, and router a minimum of (3) times. Why do I wait till today, because I have been through all 3 companies (Vonage, Linksys, and local cable) for support with limited action. The cable company has checked my line but made excuses. Vonage say's all is good and has me verify my port forwarding -which has been set since day 1. Linksys had me download the latest firmware - which I did. Today was th icing on the cake. No less the (12) times did I have to reset the router. One of those ocassions I had to reboot everything for it to come back. What I am looking for is a recomendation on a good bulletproof wireless router that is being used succesfully in my current set-up.
(2) wireless PC's 802.11b
Cable service - 1275 / 238 - dslreports - Motorola SB5100
Cisco ATA186

Thanks in advance

Posts: 2 · New Forum Member Joined: Aug 14, 2004 Posts: 2

I personally have a D-link wireless -b router, but I would reccomend the Linksys WRT54G. Even though it is -g, and not -b, the reason I would get it would be to get a hacked firmware mod, and enable QoS for the ATA. I can't stand when someone else in the house is using too much upload, and the other party on the line experiences glitches. I don't know of any other rotuers that you can enable Qos on, but give the Linksys a shot (find that hacked Sveasoft firmware first though)

Good Luck!

Posts: 31 · Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 5:05 pm Post subject:

Have heard good things about the Linksys WRT54G router with the ability to use Sveasoft to add more control features to the router.

If you are looking for a wired Linksys router maybe you should take a look at this one at Staples. Broadband router for Vonage

Posts: 1 · New Forum Member Joined: Oct 25, 2004 Posts: 1

I've had the same problem as you. I run p2p apps that pretty much saturate my upload bandwith 24x7. My router, a linksys, would choke at least once a day and had to be reset. The problem is that consumer grade routers couldnt handle the huge amount of incoming connections. A commercial router would do the trick, but they're too costly.

The solution for me was m0n0wall. (http://m0n0.ch/wall/) M0n0wall is router software built on top of a stripped-down freebsd distro. It's painless to install, fairly simple to set up, and the hardware requirements are minimal. All you need is some old PC, I'd say anything over a P-200 will do, 64+ MB ram, a small hard drive (only uses like 8 MB) and 2 NIC's.

My router runs on a P2-400, 128 MB ram. Its as robust as I need it to be and never gives me any problems.