Post #340,454
3/13/11 12:44:43 PM
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Tired of craptastic routers.
I've been through D-Link, Linksys, Netgear, and now Buffalo. The Buffalo was great to start with but now it requires random rebooting once or twice a day.
If I were willing to pay more than the standard $60 or so for a POS model, what are the ones I should be paying attention to?
Regards,
-scott
Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
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Post #340,457
3/13/11 1:49:33 PM
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Maybe it's the wiring or interference?
My step mom had trouble with her Buffalo due to a bad Ethernet cable.
Or maybe there's radio interference? I made sure our Panasonic DECT 6.0 cordless phones run on a different frequency band.
I've got 2 Buffalo G54 boxes and a recent Buffalo Nfinity that have worked very well. I don't recall even updating the firmware on them. The Nfinity gives a choice of running some open source version but I haven't tried it.
Note that I don't use DHCP as that seemed temperamental long ago. But visitors do and don't seem to have issues.
Sorry you've had issues. :-( I know this doesn't answer your question, but I hope it helps anyway. :-)
Good luck.
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #340,458
3/13/11 2:23:40 PM
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I switch to an Airport Extreme.
Been happy with is since.
I went through a few different ones about every 2 years.
Airport seems to be good.
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Post #340,459
3/13/11 2:49:23 PM
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Ditto
I've had an airport extreme for about 2 years now. It's been utterly trouble free. I have a 2tb drive attached to the USB port on it, and it serves as time machine backup disk for the 4 macs in the house.
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Post #340,461
3/13/11 3:12:43 PM
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mostly happy with mine as well
though I did have an issue with my iPhone (both the original and 3GS) and Ubuntu netbook not always wanting to talk to it that took a long time to figure out. Until I figured out the solution, I just used cellular for internet and an ethernet cable for the netbook.
After much searching, I found mention to try changing Wireless Security from WPA/WPA2 Personal to just WPA2 Personal, and that fixed it; however, now my PSP won't talk to it. I don't use the PSP on the internet, so it's not been a problem.
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Post #340,463
3/13/11 5:19:47 PM
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What he said.
It's no different (as far as I can tell) from any of their other hardware. It's rock solid.
-Mike
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 Historical Review of Pennsylvania
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Post #340,464
3/13/11 5:38:44 PM
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What's the firewalling like?
I need a certain amount of flexibility with the filtering to keep tabs on my teenager...
Regards,
-scott
Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
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Post #340,466
3/13/11 7:17:44 PM
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Re: What's the firewalling like?
What exactly are you looking for?
Its got lots of things, gimme something specific you are looking for.
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Post #340,467
3/13/11 7:46:56 PM
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Re: What's the firewalling like?
Filters by website, logging, inserting a transparent proxy, stuff like that.
Regards,
-scott
Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
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Post #340,469
3/13/11 7:57:35 PM
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Nope.
none of that.
You'd be better off using a an IPTables based firewall you can tweak its setup that does the proxying. There are "web based control" router/firewall setups that do that.
Personally, if you want that level of stuff... nobody but you is going to be able to make what you want.
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Post #340,501
3/14/11 2:49:52 PM
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my $25 dlink clone does all of the above
but a cheap linux box does it better
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Post #340,562
3/16/11 12:15:53 AM
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You might try this...
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