Here's the situation. I've never been able to get my Mum's laptop to play nice with our network. My older router only supports WPA-PSK using TKIP encryption, which her laptop does not. So, we've mainly left it with no protection - and have occasionally noticed (and MAC-banned) suspicious clients. Some 'not-welcomes' have started torrenting, so it's time to investigate encryption again. Can anyone recommend any ADSL routers? I want something fast and reliable - 1Gbps is a must, so is WPA using AES encryption. On my network, I have iPhone, Android phone, 2x desktop pcs (wired), 3x laptops (wireless), printer (with print server), NAS, so any device would need to be able to handle all of this traffic. Do you have any suggestions?
The D-Link DIR-655 is decent (http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=530) and I've had good performance with it. It has gigabit LAN speeds and excellent wireless performance - I can get signal in every room despite living in a four-story shared house with pretty thick ceilings in all the rooms. If you get its little brother, the DIR-615, you can flash DD-WRT on it which might tickle your fancy but if you want something stock the 655 fits the bill - and it's only 60 quid. If you're looking for a more upmarket router, the 855 has every feature imaginable... http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=548
http://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-Link-TL-...TVTQ/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1295709384&sr=8-3 Is what I use and it works quite well. GB LAN and wireless N MIMO WPA2 ect. check out their homepage for the full specs: http://www.tp-link.com/products/productDetails.asp?class=wlan&pmodel=TL-WR1043ND Hope this helps
None of those are ADSL routers though, which the OP asked for. How about this: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0030XMP...de=asn&creative=22206&creativeASIN=B0030XMPQG
http://www.draytek.co.uk/products/vigor2710vdn.html I've been recommending and using one of these of late... it's excellent and I believe covers all your stated requirements.
Just an update. I ordered the D-Link DIR-655, and received it today. Unfortunately, I did this before I read smc8788's post, and so have a router with an ethernet port for internet. Lovely. Thankfully, I've worked around it, I've disabled my old router's wireless and it simply acts as an ethernet modem (as you'd expect). So no harm done (though it is slightly irritating to have had to mess around with IP addresses for an hour or so. I do think it's slightly misleading of whoever I was reading to advertise it as 'ADSL with modem', which to me implied that there was an embedded modem...
