Recommend a wifi router...

[john.med]

My old sky netgear router is on the blink after 3 years, can someone recommend me a new ADSL router, as cheap as possible, that will cope with hd streaming on my local network and the usual stuff.

I've looked and looked, and it seems there's a big difference in prices...

Thanks.

 

[Damo_Sport]

ring up sky and get a new one?

 

[john.med]

I left sky 2 yrs ago. Thanks anyway Damo.

 

[Damo_Sport]

my sky router is pretty s**t lol. might invent in a netgear one.. had one before adn was pretty good

 

[AK]

I've got a brand new sky router kicking about?

 

[Sym0n]

Old but still the best, IMHO, D-Link DIR-655.

 

[Louism]

I jsut signed up to 02 with 3 months free and a router, may be worth a thought,

 

[KDF]

I did quite a bit of research into this and in the end I went for the NETGEAR RangeMax Dual Band Wireless-N Gigabit Router WNDR3

It rocks ! 2.4 and 5ghz, Gigabit on LAN and WAN, dual SSID's with guest networks,traffic metering etc.. it's a quality bit of kit !

 

[john.med]

Is it pricey mate?

 

[Sym0n]

The WNDR3 is a nice choice, it was my 2nd option after the DIR-655 and only because of the price difference and problems I've had with Netgear recently.

WNDR3 is about £90+ IIRC and the DIR-655 ranges from about £50-100+. Obviously you can pick them both up 2nd hand if you want to try and get them cheaper.

 

[KDF]

The Netgear was about £120 but was worth the money.. i was sick of messing around with cheaper routers.. even the Linksys I had before that wasn't up to the job ! Although I had a wrt54g with DDR-WRT firmware installed and that was very good and rock solid as well but was only 802.11g and 100mbit switch ports.. I wanted 802.11N and Gigabit

 

[AK]

I have this

netgear DG834GT

That you can have for 20 quid + postage..

Brand new only thing is it's missing the arieal which you can probably take from your old router.