Reliable wireless router

[andypress]

Our linksys wrt54g died today, had been cutting out over the past few weeks and would not power back up sucessfully. Before that was a netgear and a d-link. Basically I need a reliable wireless router that can handle on average 5 gigbytes of traffic a day, some days up to 30. Has to be relativly cheap, although ill take anything into consideration. Thanks.

 

[nweaver]

wth are you doing transfering 5 gigs of data a day. That's one of two things, pr0n server, or BT...and damn, I like linux, but I dont' think I could find 5 gigs a day worth of distros to download....

 

[andypress]

I'm usually moving files back and forth between my storage server, and soon its going to be lots of raw dv footage.

 

[InlineFour]

Originally posted by: andypress
I'm usually moving files back and forth between my storage server, and soon its going to be lots of raw dv footage.

your storage server is online?

 

[Madwand1]

Originally posted by: andypress
Our linksys wrt54g died today, had been cutting out over the past few weeks and would not power back up sucessfully. Before that was a netgear and a d-link. Basically I need a reliable wireless router that can handle on average 5 gigbytes of traffic a day, some days up to 30. Has to be relativly cheap, although ill take anything into consideration. Thanks.

I've had 2 Linksys WRT54G power supplies die -- which were covered under 3 year warranty. A phone call explaining my diagnostics to that conclusion (trying another power supply) got me replacements shipped promptly. Working fine again. Perhaps they even improved the power supplies, but I'm not holding my breath on that -- at least it's an easy to solve problem even out of warranty.

 

[Aarondeep]

Could it be another issue like power? If not maybe look into getting an access point seperate from your router?

 

[andypress]

I dont tink it's a power supply issue, the thing powers on, but just blinks the power light.

 

[JackMDS]

Originally posted by: andypressBasically I need a reliable wireless router that can handle on average 5 gigbytes of traffic a day, some days up to 30. Has to be relativly cheap, although ill take anything into consideration. Thanks.

The Entry-Level "thingies" were not designed for such traffic in mind.

However if you have so much traffic you probably do a very good business, so you probably can afford professional hardware.

:sun:

 

[tropic]

I would actually recommend a wired router and a wireless access point. This seems to be much more reliable than consumer wireless routers.

 

[andypress]

Originally posted by: JackMDS

Originally posted by: andypressBasically I need a reliable wireless router that can handle on average 5 gigbytes of traffic a day, some days up to 30. Has to be relativly cheap, although ill take anything into consideration. Thanks.

The Entry-Level "thingies" were not designed for such traffic in mind.

However if you have so much traffic you probably do a very good business, so you probably can afford professional hardware.

:sun:

I don't mean 5 gigiabytes of site traffic a day, just 5gb of lan traffic a day. It's about to increase to 150gb on monday once i get my hard drives from woot...

 

[ChiPCGuy]

The Buffalo AirStation TurboG High Power router is hard to beat. Love that thing.

 

[Vesper8]

are you referring to the WHR-HP-G54 router from bufallo? I need to know if that's it's product code. I've had my eyes on it for a while too and I think I'm about to order it

What would you suggest I buy for my desktops? I'd like a PCI card as well as a USB adapter.

Also I heard they make wireless-to-ethernet adapters for game consoles.. could you by any chance give me a product name or model number for one of those? Looking for something that'll be compatible with the xbox360/ps3.. or could I just use a USB adapter for them and would that work?

 

[ChiPCGuy]

This is the exact router I am talking about: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16833162134

As for a PCI card--are you referring to wired or wireless?

On the USB adapter--I have never used one, so I cannot comment on that one.

Here is a wireless to ethernet converter that is also in the High Power series: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16833162168
Considering that it is available as a bundle deal with a XBox, I would say it is designed for this. It will also give you the range and high throughput you are looking for. USB adapters I would think are more limited in capability.

 

[Atheus]

If I was moving that much traffic on a LAN I wouldn't do it over wireless, I'd have ethernet (maybe gb) through a nice switch and leave routers out of it entirely. If I absolutely had to move some of it over wireless I'd get a modular cisco or another professinal solution and hook it up to the switch.

BTW, you can often fix bricked WRTs by adding a serial or jtag port and accessing it directly, it's not too hard, but it requires a bit of soldering and will obviously void the warranty.