Wireless-N Router Recommendations?
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what sort of features are you looking?
Perhaps checkout thesmalnetworkbuilders website.
www.smallnetbuilder.com
Was googling something tonight and found that my N router (the Linksys WRT310 scrubs up well but required a separate modem)
Perhaps checkout thesmalnetworkbuilders website.
www.smallnetbuilder.com
Was googling something tonight and found that my N router (the Linksys WRT310 scrubs up well but required a separate modem)
Not sure if it's the same situation, but I want to change my wired LinkSys cable modem for one that is both wired and has wireless capability, so I can browse with the laptop at home and leave the desktop plugged in.
I'm looking for what I think are just "the basics": a few RJ45 connectors, the ability to loop in a few wireless connections, and a built-in firewall.
This is the crappy router that I currently own.
And as per my comments above the same one I do and it's worked pretty well for me.
I was reading some discussion the other day and some were saying if you really want a N router that's going to work - get an Apple Airport Extreme.
My WRT310 is "downstream" to a cable router.
Wall Coax Connector -> Cable Modem -> Router -> Each of my PCs
I find that the router has problems with DNS lookups. Certain domain names -- like trekbbs.com, interestingly -- almost never cause problems, but nearly all others that I try (examples: cnn.com, youtube.com, flickr.com) have problems. Basically the router seems to lose the ability to find the domains. When this happens I have to "reboot" the router by disconnecting and reconnecting the power cord.
Sometimes the router can handle DNS lookups for hours without a hitch, but often it has problems after an hour or less.
Wall Coax Connector -> Cable Modem -> Router -> Each of my PCs
I find that the router has problems with DNS lookups. Certain domain names -- like trekbbs.com, interestingly -- almost never cause problems, but nearly all others that I try (examples: cnn.com, youtube.com, flickr.com) have problems. Basically the router seems to lose the ability to find the domains. When this happens I have to "reboot" the router by disconnecting and reconnecting the power cord.
Sometimes the router can handle DNS lookups for hours without a hitch, but often it has problems after an hour or less.
same as my setup though I've got a Server 2008 box that I use as DNS but even before that I found it pretty reliable. I occasionally get a page has no content.
Try setting it to use a particular DNS server rather than ISP assigned. You can use open DNS on 67.208.222.222 (you can google openDNS to find out about it). That will rule out it being any issues related to your ISP rather than the router.
Just thinking (I'm not at home to check) when it allocated and IP addres to your computer it allocates the DNS server of you ISP i.e it doesn't peform the lookups and it doesn't do DNS caching.
Or even specifiy the DNS in the netowrk connection properties on the computer manually.
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