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I was looking around on newegg for a router but there are so many differnet things out there with different features I wasn't sure what the best one was. I will be gaming 90% of the time so I'd like a router that can handle long gaming sessions. Also, no wirless! I had to use wireless the entire time I lived at home and hated every minute of it. It was either slow as hell or always disconnecting. I just never said anything because it was free...Anywho, I will probably never use wirless again so I dont even want the router to have wireless becuase I dont want freeloaders running off my connection. I know you can turn it off, but I'd rather not go through that hassel. I was looking at linksys because I heard those were the best. The router that I had at home was a Dlink. I wish I knew what I was looking for or I wouldnt have to ask here. So any suggestions would be awsome. Thanks!
 
If you have a spare computer sitting around doing nothing build your own.

www.smoothwall.org

This is what i am using at home, and I love it. Lots of nice features, and tons of homebrew stuff for it.


Before anyone starts flaming, I know there are others out the but this is the one I use and have had experiece with.
 
Gaming 90% of the time? Much downloading? What kind of reliability do you need? What kind of Internet connection?
 
Nate7311 said:
Gaming 90% of the time? Much downloading? What kind of reliability do you need? What kind of Internet connection?
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Mostly gaming like I said. I do download a lot of random stuff like demos and patches and what not. I need 100% reliability, least amount of downtime and mishaps as possable. I will be getting a 10 meg download 384kbs upload speed. So anything that can do those speeds. And of course thats cable internet. Thanks
 
Snag a Linksys RV0 series....RV082 is the middle model in that range. Can snag one on eBay cheap I bet. They fly..rock solid. A good business grade router that has high horsepower (533MHz, 32 megs of RAM) for a pretty darned good price. They run the mid-to upper 200's pricewise....tis why I mentioned eBay for a used one if you're on a budget.

My favorite "under 100 dollar" home grade router...the Linksys BEFSX41 model. NOT the befsR series...but befsX. Big difference. However..they had a few flakey firmware versions out there...either run it on the old trusty 1.45.7 firmware, or the fairly brand new 1.52.9
 
OEM said:
Mostly gaming like I said. I do download a lot of random stuff like demos and patches and what not. I need 100% reliability, least amount of downtime and mishaps as possable. I will be getting a 10 meg download 384kbs upload speed. So anything that can do those speeds. And of course thats cable internet. Thanks
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How was that rule of thumb again?
"When going above 99.9% reliability, every nine increases the cost more than tenfold"?
 
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