My WRT54G finally died today, well I put it in its grave (el-hammer-o). Not sure if it has been going or if the PS3 BFBC2 content DL my son did yesterday evening that pushed it over the edge. Ever sense the PS3 DLC the router would reboot at random when a wireless connection was used to browse the net. It was very odd, never seen anything like it before. Anyways, have any recommendations for the NON Lynksys wireless router that also has at-least 2 rj45 ports?? -Trice
I really like the upper end D-Link routers. Always been good to me The DIR-655 is one of the most used, but its a bit old now and doesnt have all the latest features. For a router with most of the newer features you could go with the DIR-825: http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=DIR-825 Top end: http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=DIR-855 Basically the same but the 855 has an additional antenna and no LED screen on the outside for checking on the status of different things the router handles. Basically at longer ranges the DIR-825 runs about 1/3 slower since it cant get as good of a connection. Also note that if you run Wireless G on your network while trying to run Wireless N on the same 2.4GHz band the wireless N performance will be terrible, although the 5GHz wireless N will not be affected. All routers have this problem. EDIT: Ok, so for some hardware details: the 825 and 855 both use the Ubicom IP5170U processor at a speed of 350MHz. Both have a single PSC A2S28D40CTP RAM chip that provides 16MB of DDR RAM. The DIR-825 uses the Realtek RTL8366SR gigabit switch chipset and the DIR-855 uses the Realtek RTL8356 chipset. The radio chips are the Atheros AR9160 MAC/Baseband and AR9103 for 2.4GHz. the 5GHz band has the same AR9160 chip for Mac/Baseband and the AR9106 for 5GHz radio. Both DIR-825 and DIR-855 use these same chips for their wireless bands. The 855 provides support for up to 9K jumbo frames. I do not know what the 825 supports up to, it could possibly be the same. The jumbo frame support would come from the gigabit switch chip not the processor so thats why I dont know if the 825 has the same jumbo frame support or not. Just cause the 825 has a higher numbered model chip doesnt mean it is a better chip. With the 350MHz speed of the CPU in these routers they should handle a pretty high number of connections at once without crapping out. And last but certainly not least, here is the DIR-855 and DIR-825 router configuration for you to look through. So you can see if it is easy for you to configure the things you need or not: DIR-855 - 192.168.0.1 DIR-825 - 192.168.0.1 Comparable model for the DIR-855 to Linksys is the WRT600N. And since your a fan of the WRT54G, youll probably be happy to know that the DD-WRT firmware flash should support both of these D-Link models as well
I just purchased one of the new Netgear models (unfortunately don't know the model number, just woke up from a nap - too lazy - will update) and its been rock solid so far, had it about 2 months.
I'll have to do some research, the router needs to have the ability to restrict access based on MAC during a specific time range. Loved the Linksys for this, but fear that I have lost confidence in the WRT54G.
Click on one of the router configurations from my last post and under the ADVANCED area, look in access control. Unfortunately you cant select the schedule area for it to see how you can schedule the filter, but it should include all the basic stuff like between certain times or if a certain traffic limit is reached
I really like my Netgear WNR3500L, had it for about 5 months now, wireless N, 4port gigabit switch, open source firmware compatible, USB port for printer/harddrive.