Need a new router, which one?

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I need a new router - I don't really use wireless since I mostly game with pc and consoles so I like to have it hardwire, but getting a wireless router and just using the LAN ports would suffice. I'd like to get one just incase I do decide to use wireless. So I've read reviews and came down to three:

D-Link DGL-4300
D-Link DIR-655
Linksys WRT54GL (What's custom firmware going to help?)


Any suggestions on which and maybe on I missed?
 
If you don't feel like messing around with firmware upgrades, then I highly recommend the DIR-655 router. IIRC, the DIR655 is based on the older DGL-4300. Anyway, I have the DIR-655 and it's one of the best routers I've ever bought and used. It has wireless draft-N capability and hopefully should still be compatible when Wireless N is officially ratified. It also has gigabit LAN ports which should speed up transfers between multiple PCs and consoles faster than the 100Mbit LAN ports on the WRT54GL.

DD-WRT and Tomato are the two often recommended 3rd party firmware for the WRT54GL series.

But definitely ask a mod to move this thread to the Networking subforum.
 
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