[Klug-general] Slightly OT: router recommendation?

[Mike]

On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 10:34:34AM +0100, Jake Subs wrote:
> The place I rent office space from is having real problems with their
> BT ADSL router. It frequently resets to the factory settings (which is
> problematic if you're mid-web design workshop!!). I _think_ this would
> be a router problem rather than a BT service issue, though wouldn't
> swear to it.
> 
> Can anyone recommend a rock-solid wireless router replacement? I have
> a netgear at home but only because it was supplied by TalkTalk. The
> existing router is called a "2wire" BT Business Hub (2700HGV)
> http://bit.ly/cFMUs5
>

I guess it depends very much on what you want.  I used to use a NetGear
DG834.  That was OK as a router (dispite a few peculiorities) but wasn't
wireless.  I have found NetGear's wireless kit to be crap.

Linksys do nice stuff.  They are low cost and reasonably feature rich.
If it's just distributing your ADSL via wireless you can't go far wrong
with one of these.

I currently use a CISCO 877 (it isn't wireless but there are models in
the 8xx series that do) cause I got hacked off with the DG834s inability
to do SNMP and I had to hack the DG834 to get it to route the way that I
wanted.  They run IoS and so are a complete pain in the arse to setup
and configure.  They are also really expensive (around £300 for a new
one).  These will give you max flexability though.

Somewhere in the middle (around the £100 mark) come the Zyxel routers,
they tent to be quite flexable, web managed and mid priced.

I'd go with a Linksys if you don't want to do anything fancy.

Mike. 
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