Looking for a Reliable Wireless Router

Kris

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I've owned two Linksys routers, one D-Link router and a business grade Netgear router. So far, the first Linksys was rock solid (didn't need a reset for an entire year) but that was only wired. Both the wireless Linksys (WRT54G) and the D-Link both crapped out on my regularlly (especially with traffic from Bit torrents) with the D-Link resetting itselt constantly.

I got fed up and purchased a business grade Netgear wireless router (FWG114P) and so far, it has handled everything I've thrown at it and has been very reliable. The only problems is that 1. the wireless seems to have issues where it randomly disconnects from some of my computers at times (I have to go in and change the channel all the time (I know this is probably due to interferance but can't I get a more powerful router to overcome the interferance or am I dreaming?)) and 2. I want to be able to setup a VPN connection on the router itself (while it has advanced features to let me connect the router to a VPN, I cannot create a VPN on the router itself so I can login from Work or School).

Any recommendations?
 
I would recommend going back to the WRT54G but flash it with dd-wrt, the alternative open-source firmware. Mine runs rock solid now.
 
Linksys wrt300n
DLink 655

Both great routers...fast, strong. No way I've look back to G...the benefits of N are simply too much to give up.
 
Get a cheap atheros based wireless card, couple of nics and an old computer.
pfsense, dd-wrt x86, etc...

torrents and p2p are hard on routers, especially wireless.
 
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