Mike, you're totally in my wheel house here let me give you some pointers. I've had the DLink DIR-655 for home use for several years now and been happy and I'm not easily impressed. the upsides are that the draft N is very good if you use their adapters. It works ok with the Mac although I can't figure out yet how to see what my wireless bandwidth is negotiated at but with Windows I was able to negotiate at least to 150 mb/s with the cheesy Intel adapters. Spend the money on the DLink matching set and you get 300 solid and HD works very well as well as mixed VOIP, video and gaming. I used a 100 megabit down 25 megabit up connection and it was one of the few routers that had the forwarding rate to keep up. If I were you I'd check out the 855 which is the latest model. This interoperates with Intel much better and has really good processing so your QOS and advanced features work perfectly. (you should use these) Don't cheap out on your router especially if you have a decent connection. Mine was just bumped to 150 and I'm only now considering an upgrade and it's been 3 years which is stunning for me considering I change gadgets like clothes.
Do * Not * Use * Linksys. (and I know you do from your podcasts). These suck, there's no nice way to say this. Cisco products for the most part bite the big one and Linksys is Cisco. The forwarding rates are pitiful frequently less than 10 megabits reliably. The only really good thing is with an older WRT54G or similar you can flash your own linux kernel and your experience improves dramatically. Let me know if you want to hear more about dd-wrt or tomato which are replacements operating systems. If you're up for some adventure I can't highly suggest you go to ebay and buy some used enterprise gear. Juniper has some exciting stuff and even Cisco's mid range gear can be such overkill for the home user but a great tool for teaching yourself network concepts or even building a home lab. I use all sorts of gear in a home lab which really makes it easy to stage experiments with out testing them in the production environments at work. Juniper is where it's at though. Probably steep out of pocket but oh so worth your time or anyone elses interested in learning. Any JunOS device is good for the home lab because you learn JunOS on a firewall you know it on a router and switch, it's all the same. Something like an SRX100 or 210, 240 is you have some bean but want 16 gigabit ports that go line rate. At my office I use a 10 member ex4200 bundle distributed around a building with 10G links and access chassis of the same gear usually 10 members using 128G and 10G all OSPF with no spanning tree. It gets really crazy but you can start learning how to function in these environments for a few hundred bucks. You can spend from under $100 on up so let us know how far you want to go with this. Also, on any level, ebay is your friend save the money, the ressession is a good thing if you're working.:) Sorry for the typos, I'm writing this while on a light jet headed back to CA after a kick ass vacation. On Sep 7, 2010, at 6:53 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote: > Hi all, well, I might be looking at getting a new router, mine has started > having some strange problems, so it may be going bad, was wondering which > routers are the most accessible with their web interfaces. I know the linksys > routers work well, what about net geer, belkin or d-link? I've heard some > routers use a capcha now to get in to their configurations, that is nuts. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
