wireless router recommendations

Get a linksys WRT54G off the 'bay, peach of a router, only about £40 new in PC world. I woudn't give netgear house room, let alone work room. Netgear switches (the big ones) maybe but their white domestic range is pure junk. The draytek stuff is OK but offers far more more than almost any home user will ever need or use and by the time you need all the functionality it does offer you will want something branded a bit higher up the food chain than draytek.

Jay_jet wrote: belkin N1 is the best!!

For about four months, till it dies, if it works out of the box in the first place.

toastyghost wrote: If you use a Netgear DG834Gv2 or above, update the firmware to the latest. We worked with them a lot about a year or so back to fix some stupid bugs in their chipset's modem code and it'll give you much better stability particularly on long lines. nickyburnell: After the 2600 it seems Draytek got on crack basically, they've not made anything anywhere near as good since. We recalled all of the 2800s we sold and replaced them with Speedtouch 605s routers at our expense because they were that bad.

godathunder wrote: any suggestions for something "affordable" for domestic use.   ve got a netgear dg834g at the mo but Im having a lot of trouble with signal loss unless Im in the same room (which rather defeats the purpose of having one).   Ive tried repositioning it but no joy. any thoughts chaps?

Before you go changing the router, have you tried setting the router to a different channel? Also a small change in positiong of the aerial can make a big difference. I can't remember if the dg834g has a removeable aerial, if it has then a higher gain aerial may help, check out http://www.solwise.co.uk/wireless-indoorantenna-24.htm for WIFI bits.

The main gripe with Draytek is that they're only based in Taiwan and their UK distributor is a joke. The issues with the 2800 were never resolved because Draytek don't have anyone remotely capable of fixing their dodgy line handling code and hardware in the UK, where we're in the lovely position of using a bastardised version of ADSL to get the infamous 'up to' 8Mbit connections.

If you're buying new now, it's not worth considering a router that doesn't do ADSL2+.

21CN is coming up very fast despite being an utter shambles with the most piss poor 'diagnostic' tools I've ever seen and failing processes left right and centre - faults can't be passed back to BT Wholesale diagnostics teams once they've been rejected under the current system for example, so every fault has a maximum of 1 chance to be fixed and if that doesn't happen you have to wait 5 days to raise the fault again!

adambomb wrote: Sorry, no offence but I REALLY have to disagree there... utter rubbish products IMHO... the ONLY reason to buy one is the functionality that some models give (3G broadband backup etc).

The 2820 is actually quite an improvement on the 2800 (it can handle an SnR margin fluctuation of more than 1dB without spazzing right out for a start!) but it's still not up to the heady days of the 2600 being launched.