Need Advice

  • Tom P.
    Whitehall Wi.
    Posts: 3526
    November 29, 2011 at 5:36 am #1274723

    I currently have a Linksys router which is acting up and dropping the connection, unplug it for a few minutes and usually it is good to go again.

    Need recommendations for a new router. Have one other PC and a lap top that I use in the garage that uses the WIFI connection. The lap top in the garage only has good WIFI connection if I am closest to the house. Approximately 50 feet the closest and 90 the farthest. At 90 feet the connection is intermittent.

    What say yee????????

    igotone
    Posts: 1746
    November 29, 2011 at 8:33 am #1012874

    Here is the one I got after looking 4 a router a couple years ago – add upgraded firmware and this baby rocks
    Router
    Best thing I have ever got – never drops out
    Power has to go out before this will

    I have it in my basement and can connect anywhere in the house – have had neighbors tell me that they can connect if I give them the password

    Can hook printer to it and print from any PC in the house

    I installed Tomato on mine – software that comes with it is not as good as what U can flash to it

    Dave Koonce
    Moderator
    Prairie du Chien Wi.
    Posts: 6946
    November 29, 2011 at 10:15 am #1012879

    I have been uning a Belkin for the past 8 to 10 years or so.. It has been great !!

    BCNeal
    Bloomington, MN
    Posts: 370
    November 29, 2011 at 1:25 pm #1012911

    I have had a D-Link router for several years that has been rock solid.

    Tom P.
    Whitehall Wi.
    Posts: 3526
    November 29, 2011 at 1:36 pm #1012920

    What is meant by an OPEN SOURCE router?

    jerad
    Otranto, IA/Hager City, WI
    Posts: 616
    November 29, 2011 at 1:43 pm #1012924

    get a verizon hotspot, no router required and you can take it anywhere you go.

    BassEye
    rochester,mn
    Posts: 70
    November 29, 2011 at 2:27 pm #1012932

    I have Linksys Wireless-G 2.4Ghz for the last five years. I have desk top connected to it in the living room, ps3(online gaming) in the basement and in summer i can connected with my laptop in the garage(detached garage) with out any problem.

    life1978
    Eau Claire , WI
    Posts: 2790
    November 30, 2011 at 1:23 pm #1013208

    Quote:

    I have Linksys Wireless-G 2.4Ghz for the last five years. I have desk top connected to it in the living room, ps3(online gaming) in the basement and in summer i can connected with my laptop in the garage(detached garage) with out any problem.

    Same here! Love it!! We use em at work too.

    Ralph Wiggum
    Maple Grove, MN
    Posts: 11764
    November 30, 2011 at 1:26 pm #1013212

    Quote:

    I have had a D-Link router for several years that has been rock solid.


    I bought a D-Link about this time last year, and it has been great.

    icenutz
    Aniwa, WI
    Posts: 2540
    November 30, 2011 at 3:06 pm #1013245

    How old is the laptop, does it have a G or N wireless card in it? What model router do you currently have, is it G or N?

    N will transmit much farther and faster than G, so that would be your biggest concern. If the Laptop is only G it will not gain you much if anything by adding an N router. I would still get an N router even if the laptop is only G, but that would explain part of your distance problem.

    all manufactures are basically the same.

    phigs
    Twin Cities, MN
    Posts: 1046
    November 30, 2011 at 5:16 pm #1013304

    get yourself another linksys, they are about the best there is for a consumer router.

    jbob
    Hastings, MN
    Posts: 725
    November 30, 2011 at 5:21 pm #1012942

    We had the same problem losing the internet, we found out that our site was unsecured( so the kids could use it when they came home as well as all the neighbors were. We changed it to a secured site and hasn’t done it since,the only problems were the neighbors complaining that they couldn’t use our internet anymore.

    fireline
    Rochester
    Posts: 813
    November 30, 2011 at 5:30 pm #1013312

    Can a modem be coded if it isn’t from your server ?

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