What's a good wired router for under $80?

[nightmare beta]

I was soon going to get a ps3 and a wii if I can ever find one, and I wanted to hook the ps3 and wii up to a wired router along with my pc's dsl. Is there some all in one product I can buy for < or = $80 which gives good/great bandwidth/speed?

[retsam]

dlink sucks!!!....

[Redshirt #24]

While they're not strictly wired, routers like the Buffalo wireless-G model that everybody likes to stick DD-WRT on and the ZyXel X-550 are pretty damn solid wired routers. I'll personally cast my vote for the X-550, which has been astonishingly rock-solid for me for well over a year.

(D-Link isn't bad, but they're not ultra-kickass either. They're functional, and that's about it.)

[OldOfEvil]

Originally Posted by retsam

dlink sucks!!!....

I've got a D-Link router..

It works fine for me, it was cheap and I haven't had any problems with it. YMMV I guess..

[einstein_314]

I'm probably going to get yelled at.....but I have a dlink DGL-4300 gaming router and it has yet to give me any problems. It has loads of options and awesome wireless. I didn't buy it for the l337 gaming super duper ping reducing, frag increasing features. I needed a new router and it was on sale.

Oh and Gigabit ethernet is nice when transfering large files between computers (I was just copying a bunch of stuff from my HTPC and it was transfering at 51 MB/s).

[ViN86]

i installed an 8 port wired Linksys router at work. it handles large traffic very well. we have about 20 ppl accessing it constantly 10 hours a day, and it's pretty solid.

[crainger]

Originally Posted by einstein_314

I'm probably going to get yelled at.....but I have a dlink DGL-4300 gaming router and it has yet to give me any problems. It has loads of options and awesome wireless. I didn't buy it for the l337 gaming super duper ping reducing, frag increasing features. I needed a new router and it was on sale.

Oh and Gigabit ethernet is nice when transfering large files between computers (I was just copying a bunch of stuff from my HTPC and it was transfering at 51 MB/s).

OMG WTF! I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU HAVE A DLINK...

Actually I can't say anything. I use a Netgear, have to reboot the damn thing once a week. Just last weekend it forgot ALL of it's settings. ISP logon, ports, assigned fixed LAN addresses. On top of that, when I install the latest firmware only one wireless device can connect to it at a time.

[Redeemed]

Meh- wireless is teh suck. Wired FTW!!!

[Capt. Picard]

Originally Posted by Redeemed

Meh- wireless is teh suck. Wired FTW!!!

I have a 50 computer network that is going to be wireless tomorrow (when I get the chance to set it up). I didn't really have another option.

I have a TP-Link Router and a Linksys Access point. The supplier in town assured me they'll do fine. My network won't have to handle much traffic anyway. Only mandatory profiles that will have to be distributed to the 50 PCs once every couple of days and also for the odd file I want to upload to all the computers.

No internet traffic is allowed by the headmaster in this particular class. Firstly because some children downloaded porn some years ago and the school got quite some flak for it and secondly 50 users will suck our monthly 3GB cap dry within two days. Unlimited access is way too expensive in South Africa.

[retsam]

Originally Posted by Capt. Picard

I have a 50 computer network that is going to be wireless tomorrow (when I get the chance to set it up). I didn't really have another option.

I have a TP-Link Router and a Linksys Access point. The supplier in town assured me they'll do fine. My network won't have to handle much traffic anyway. Only mandatory profiles that will have to be distributed to the 50 PCs once every couple of days and also for the odd file I want to upload to all the computers.

No internet traffic is allowed by the headmaster in this particular class. Firstly because some children downloaded porn some years ago and the school got quite some flak for it and secondly 50 users will suck our monthly 3GB cap dry within two days. Unlimited access is way too expensive in South Africa.

watch when all those machines start to do broadcasts, its going to bring that wireless network to a crawl....

[Capt. Picard]

Originally Posted by retsam

watch when all those machines start to do broadcasts, its going to bring that wireless network to a crawl....

This will be the first time that I work with a wireless network. I know very little about this. Can I counteract this?

[retsam]

Originally Posted by Capt. Picard

This will be the first time that I work with a wireless network. I know very little about this. Can I counteract this?

are these windows machines? if so, not that im aware of...can someone else chime in here and give a more definitive answer on this? there might be a way of using QOS in windows to limits the amount of bandwidth each machine recieves on the network...'




edit yes you need to learn how to use the windows group policy editor

http://www.xptuneup.com/xptuneup_qos.htm

i forgot about that, sorry im really tired right now ive been working all night...