On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 12:51 AM, Gibson Tang <gibt...@gmail.com> wrote: > Recently got fibre broadband installed in my home. Anyone has a > recommendation for a good router for my fibre based home usage?
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 12:51 AM, Gibson Tang <gibt...@gmail.com> wrote: > Recently got fibre broadband installed in my home. Anyone has a > recommendation for a good router for my fibre based home usage?
Avoid the buffalos. I have several of the high end ones. Crap. I also bought a smaller one to link for WDS. Crap.
Avoid the new Cisco Linksys prosumer junk. I have several. Junk.
I don't recommend anything but Airport extreme for wifi these days. The airports are crap for doing interesting firewalling, QOS, VPN and no DynDNS. Crap, why do i recommend airport extremes again? Oh wifi does not fall over, is very quick and the PPPOE is rocksolid.
Stephan
On 10 Dec, 2011, at 0:51, Gibson Tang <gibt...@gmail.com> wrote:
Recently got fibre broadband installed in my home. Anyone has a recommendation for a good router for my fibre based home usage?
> Avoid the buffalos. I have several of the high end ones. Crap. I also > bought a smaller one to link for WDS. Crap.
> Avoid the new Cisco Linksys prosumer junk. I have several. Junk.
> I don't recommend anything but Airport extreme for wifi these days. The > airports are crap for doing interesting firewalling, QOS, VPN and no > DynDNS. Crap, why do i recommend airport extremes again? Oh wifi does not > fall over, is very quick and the PPPOE is rocksolid.
> Stephan
> On 10 Dec, 2011, at 0:51, Gibson Tang <gibt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Recently got fibre broadband installed in my home. Anyone has a > recommendation for a good router for my fibre based home usage?
stephan.febru...@gmail.com> wrote: > Avoid the buffalos. I have several of the high end ones. Crap. I also > bought a smaller one to link for WDS. Crap.
> Avoid the new Cisco Linksys prosumer junk. I have several. Junk.
> I don't recommend anything but Airport extreme for wifi these days. The > airports are crap for doing interesting firewalling, QOS, VPN and no > DynDNS. Crap, why do i recommend airport extremes again? Oh wifi does not > fall over, is very quick and the PPPOE is rocksolid.
> Stephan
> On 10 Dec, 2011, at 0:51, Gibson Tang <gibt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Recently got fibre broadband installed in my home. Anyone has a > recommendation for a good router for my fibre based home usage?
while the airport extreme is professional indeed, the dd-wrt firmware still stands closer to my heart, because their web interface is clean, fast and logically well structured and it runs linux which many of us are quite familiar with.
as opposed to stephan, i can't recall having any problems w dd-wrt equipped, sometimes antenna power boosted linksys wrt-54g routers (which i installed in 2-5 person officies and homes in 15 locations at least in wds setups too) neither with the asus wl500-gp (which i installed in ~4 bigger officies and used for myself too)
the biggest easily SOLVABLE issue i have seen was a kind of slowdown http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Router_Slowdown i just had to adjust the tcp time out so tcp connections wont pile up in CLOSE_WAIT state saturating connection tracking tables in the kernel. we ran into this only when my neighbour started using torrent heavily...
so is the winner still the airport extreme these days?
i don't have fiber, but
i want to watch hd movies from one of my laptops on the other thru wifi,
while downloading stuff with 2-3Mbit/s during my wife watching the
news from her ipad.
theoretically even the 802.11g network should be enough for this, but
i think the crowdedness of the 2.4GHz doesn't let it happen in
practice.
since both macs support a/b/g/n, i thought i should have an airport extreme, but
a, it's 1288 HKD
b, the airport utility has been crippled in mountain lion
c, not very hackable; i want dyndns on it the very least (i saw meng's
note above)
i was wondering if i could get some a/n router which is robust, still
easy to use but more flexible in the same price range.
