DarkScythe
Limp Gawd
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- Mar 7, 2008
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Thanks for the info, coconutboy; apologize for the lengthy delay as I've been busy. However, I did give those links a read and did some more research on it.
From what I've seen so far (found emulators for DD-WRT, and went to a friend's house to poke at his Netgear WNDR3700 and a tomato router) it doesn't seem like I'd be happy with anything other than D-link at this point. Biggest issue is the logging; everything else seems to do very basic logging, where the dlink will log everything, even web access and sites being visited.
Price is not too big of a concern for me, I'm willing to put down around $200 for a good one (and I mean GOOD; otherwise I'll go with a sub-100 option.)
The problem with dlink is that I have no idea if they've gotten their firmware problems fixed yet. I was looking at the DIR-855 which seemed perfect for my requirements, but SmallNetBuilder seems to be against it and also claims it was plagued with problems at launch. However, the 825 does not seem to be simultaneous dual-band which kind of negates its usefulness (I want to set my home network/laptop up with 5GHz, but my phone can only access N via the 2.4GHz band.)
I don't know what else to do at this point. I could build my own router probably from my spare parts, but I really have no time to wrestle with a new piece of software right now. My last resort seems to be to just try and pick up a cheap G router or a used DGL-4300 again and continue waiting for a better N router.
Any other ideas?
From what I've seen so far (found emulators for DD-WRT, and went to a friend's house to poke at his Netgear WNDR3700 and a tomato router) it doesn't seem like I'd be happy with anything other than D-link at this point. Biggest issue is the logging; everything else seems to do very basic logging, where the dlink will log everything, even web access and sites being visited.
Price is not too big of a concern for me, I'm willing to put down around $200 for a good one (and I mean GOOD; otherwise I'll go with a sub-100 option.)
The problem with dlink is that I have no idea if they've gotten their firmware problems fixed yet. I was looking at the DIR-855 which seemed perfect for my requirements, but SmallNetBuilder seems to be against it and also claims it was plagued with problems at launch. However, the 825 does not seem to be simultaneous dual-band which kind of negates its usefulness (I want to set my home network/laptop up with 5GHz, but my phone can only access N via the 2.4GHz band.)
I don't know what else to do at this point. I could build my own router probably from my spare parts, but I really have no time to wrestle with a new piece of software right now. My last resort seems to be to just try and pick up a cheap G router or a used DGL-4300 again and continue waiting for a better N router.
Any other ideas?