RE: Recommendation required for ADSL modem + 4 port Router

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/52245

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Mike Griffiths
> Sent: 03 May 2007 18:24
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Recommendation required for ADSL modem + 4 port
> Router
>
> Where did you get the AP  from Phil?
> Mike
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Phil Harris
> Sent: Thu 03 May 2007 17:06
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Recommendation required for ADSL modem + 4 port
> Router
>
> 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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