Best Router for gaming and multiple wireless devices (50 meg) EDIT: i think i got a good one (pics inside)...

[IH8PunkRok]

ASUS FTW. DLINK FTL. my other DLINK sucks too (at the shop). Time to get a new one there too.

give it time. in a year we need to dig up this thread and see how well it is working still

but yes i agree Dlink ftl...

[meade916]

ASUS FTW. DLINK FTL. my other DLINK sucks too (at the shop). Time to get a new one there too.

give it time. in a year we need to dig up this thread and see how well it is working still

but yes i agree Dlink ftl...

much like every other computer component i have ever bought

[meade916]

It was not his network, it was a hardware problem with the old router/ap. I have taken CCNA 1-4 2 times back to back (no cert as of yet, still have some commands to memorize and am teaching myself some faster ways to subnet) and his problem is not network bandwidth. If that was the case it would just be lagging not dropping devices off in mid air and then making it so he reboots the devices it will re-authenticate and keep the connection up for a little while before it becomes bogged down from all that traffic and runs out of memory and kicks off devices again. Trust me i had the exact same problem with my home router twice before i upgraded to a firmware that was smaller in size and allowed me to kick up the clock rate of the router as well as increase the memory on the router to handle more traffic streams. My new one has one badass processor and memory layout on it and barely gets warm and i have a good amount of traffic that goes in and out of the router.

I like that i can get the DDWRT firmware for it right out of the box and perform CLI configurations. Since i have taken CCNA i prefer command driven device programming to get my desired results. I think its more fun to setup that way.

and n8, i also have not had the best of luck with d-link. Whether it was for wireless adapters, ap's or anything else they always seem to fail too fast and their quality in my opinion is poor.

i do believe the fact that this one has 4 times the memory (IIRC) that it is a big factor. So far so good! Madden running smooth and now i don't have to yell at my kids to get off while i am playing. Its a damn shame to have 50meg comcast and still have to yell at everyone about bandwith because im trying to play a game of football LOL.

so far, so good.

[WastedTalent]

ASUS FTW. DLINK FTL. my other DLINK sucks too (at the shop). Time to get a new one there too.

give it time. in a year we need to dig up this thread and see how well it is working still

but yes i agree Dlink ftl...

Lol. I've owned Asus routers for a bit and never had problems. Every so often (maybe once every 5 months or something) you have to reboot it and such but that's good. Better than Steve doing his dlink twice a day, if not more.

And I agree Steve. Yelling at others for taking up bandwidth when you pay for so much, sucks. "I GOT INTERCEPTED BECAUSE YOU WANTED ON FACEBOOK? ARE YOU SERIOUS? FOR THAT, YOU'RE GROUNDED!" Lmfao.

[kickass audio]

i do believe the fact that this one has 4 times the memory (IIRC) that it is a big factor. So far so good! Madden running smooth and now i don't have to yell at my kids to get off while i am playing. Its a damn shame to have 50meg comcast and still have to yell at everyone about bandwith because im trying to play a game of football LOL.

so far, so good.

That sure is one good factor. My old linksys wrt-54g i used before i bought that asus i recommended to you i had the ability to monitor the cpu freq, memory usage and traffic monitors all the time anywhere i was, on network or off network. I only had 3 wireless devices connected at one time as well as 2 100mbps connections on the router. It showed that i was using up 75-80% of my total memory on the router for all the traffic that was going in and out of the router and the sad part is that i barely had any true heavy amounts of data streams taking place. A few big downloads, some video streaming, web surfing, a few times playing BF3 online and thats about it. The RIP tables build up fast and take up a damn good amount of space on the router and slow it down if it runs out of room to process new entries.

I only have 12mbps down and 1.5mbps up through my cable provider as i cannot get verizon fios in my area but it works great for my needs. I like having a router that has gigabit on the WAN port because normally they are just 100mbps and the LAN side is all gigabit so you can have the fastest network in the world coming into your home but that wan port will be the part that chokes off your speeds while sharing content locally on the LAN will be fast as they are all gigabit.

[billorr]

I'm pretty new to the gaming world and I got an xbox but my router/connection sucks so I'm thinking about getting a gaming router. This thread has helped me get somewhat of a good idea of what brands are better than others. I found this website looking around online last night http://www.squidoo.com/wireless-gaming-router

and I'm considering the netgear ac 1780 (I think is what it is) but I'm curious what you guys think about that purchase before I do it. There's usually only 3 devices that would be on the router at one time. Any help or advice would be great?