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Best 802.11g Router for 3790 WiFi

post #1 of 8
9/28/04 at 10:57am
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Tried searching the forum but couldn't find anything regarding this subject.

Which WiFi routers work the best with the 3970? WHich ones to stay away from?

What about print servers? Considering a BT print adapter but can get a WiFi server for the same price.
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post #2 of 8
9/28/04 at 11:22am
I use the Linksys wireless router with 4 port RJ-45 connections for my other PC's. Works great with the laptop. (I was downloading from a website at speeds of 750kbps last night, and I've listed to streaming music at 192kbps no problem)

I got the regular router, and didn't spend the extra 10 bucks for the linksys router with "superspeed" technology or whatever, and I don't think I need it. It's plenty fast enough.
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post #3 of 8
9/28/04 at 11:48am
stay away from netgear. i originally bought a netgear router, but i returned it because it randomly rebooted itself about once every 45 minutes or so. so i read around online and saw that quite a few other people were having the exact same problem i was. i went back and got a linksys router, and it has given me 0 problems. plus you can get a hacked firmware that will let you boost the signal by increasing the router's transmitting power.
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post #4 of 8
9/28/04 at 12:00pm
I have a D-Link DI-624, and so far it seems to be working well. It gets good reviews from all of the mags, and it was a breeze to set up. It's been up and running for a month now continuously, no rebooting or anything of the sort. Best part is, I paid only $40 for it! My laptop is 60-70 feet away from the router on the second floor and I get "excellent" to "very good" signal quality according to Windows XP. The bandwidth jumps from 48Mb/s to 54Mb/s on accasion - doesn't matter to me though because my DSL line is only 768kb/s (~90KB/s, or 1MB every 11 seconds). I'm guessing that I could wander even farther away from the router and still get a decent enough signal that i'll still be able to surf "normally".
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post #5 of 8
9/28/04 at 12:05pm
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Originally Posted by idioth
stay away from netgear. i originally bought a netgear router, but i returned it because it randomly rebooted itself about once every 45 minutes or so. so i read around online and saw that quite a few other people were having the exact same problem i was. i went back and got a linksys router, and it has given me 0 problems. plus you can get a hacked firmware that will let you boost the signal by increasing the router's transmitting power.
Thanks. I have a Netgear 802.11b now that I bought because my Linksys was a piece of Crap!. But that was waaaay before Cisco bought them out. It was one of the very first DSL routers which I added the WiFi access point to it. It worked for a while but when I got a pair of new notebooks, it seemed to want to time-out the DSL connection. So I got the Netgear because it was PPoE friendly. It's worked very well but it's time to upgrade to 802.11"g".
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post #6 of 8
9/28/04 at 1:07pm
Yup, I too can vouch for this Di-624+ router. No reboot in several months. I upgraded the firmware few months ago, but performance was the same with original firmware. It's capable of delivering upto 108Mbps (practically 70Mbps at most) though for that you'd need a compatible D-Link PCMCIA adapter. With the built-in 11g adapter of 3790 you can't get more than 54Mbps, but for most jobs, that's more than enough. I get around 22Mpps (data transfer speed, not XP's connection speed) at about 55ft from the router.
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post #7 of 8
9/28/04 at 1:36pm
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Originally Posted by idioth
stay away from netgear. i originally bought a netgear router, but i returned it because it randomly rebooted itself about once every 45 minutes or so. so i read around online and saw that quite a few other people were having the exact same problem i was. i went back and got a linksys router, and it has given me 0 problems. plus you can get a hacked firmware that will let you boost the signal by increasing the router's transmitting power.
I went through almost all of the -g routers and since I started from most expensive to the cheapest, the last one that worked for me was also the cheapest -- the Netgear. During my testing, I must have went to Best Buy 5x. Thing is, I found that one of the Netgear revisions sucked. I forget which but I can check if anyone wants to know. With Netgears, you have to buy a certain revision because I looked and there was no way of flashing mine to the other revision that worked. I ended up buying one from Amazon and returning for the other one at Best Buy (I beleive that had the newer rev).
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post #8 of 8
9/28/04 at 1:51pm
testing if my pic is on the left...
BTW, do u have a sister??? I am looking for wife!!!
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