RE: Recommendation required for ADSL modem + 4 port Router

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Can I assume that the NetGear stuff you have been using in the
"domestic"
white or silver plastic cased kit?

I've lost count of the number of routers that I've got through in the last
6
years but invariably I've found that the domestic kit (standard PCWorld
fayre) tends to be pretty crap. (And I'm talking across the board - I've
had
NetGear, Belkin, Linksys, D-Link etc.) All have either been flakey, locked
up, have had poor performance in congested wifi areas or have simply died
completely.

I bit the bullet and decided to get a NetGear Pro Series (blue metal cased)
wireless AP and router recently and that has been far better (performance
wise) than my previous ones and I'm hoping that its longevity will be
better
too.

Phil



> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Jewelie
> Sent: 03 May 2007 15:58
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Recommendation required for ADSL modem + 4 port
> Router
>
> On 5/3/07, family berry <familyberry@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Thanks for the advice. Interesting that you had line dropping
issues
> too
> > with the DG834. What I can't get my head around is why I should
have
> a
> > problem now, when it's been ok since initial installation in Feb
> 2004.
>
> Ours was fine for about 8 months, then died completely.
>
> We'd had some many problems with NetGeat routers and WAPs that we
> persuaded the shop we bought it from to give us a DLink as a
> replacement. That has been a lot better, even though the wireless side
> still poor.
>
> Partly becuase of the 9 different wireless netwroks we can see, 4 of
> them all on channel 1 last time we looked.
>
> Have actually gone for powerline ethernet instead for some things,
> well worth the money, and so impressed by the first pair, we bought
> two more to extend the network in to new areas.
>
> Julie
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