l'm in need of an ADSL modem/router.. This is on sale locally (Dixons) for £60 l'm not knowledgable about these things but it sounds ok This one
dont get a d-link adsl modem/router the one i had was very bad it it was on for more then a day it would stuff up and would disconnect you at random times and other strange stuff like that.
I've personally had fairly good luck with D-link stuff, but I've only used their routers and switches, never any type of modem.
Brands are like girlfriends, you need some luck... I never had any problems with Dlink, and they have a good customer support. In contrary to Casey, I never ever ever had any chances with Belkin (My students house uses Belkin) Dlink had some problems in the past with buggy firmwares, but those times are over.
Its hard to generalise by brand on routers the all use third party chipsets, youd be better off looking for a review of the specific router.
linksys (even the tesco branded stuff ;-) netgear are my most hassel free for me.. just my opinion. the advice above is better ^^
Get a Belkin, period, I'd say! Yeah, £60 don't sound bad, but that router is still very expensive, I've got a Belkin 125mbps one, and it is perfect!
From now on if one asks for a brand, let's all agree on nothing less then cisco We all agree those are great. For the rest of the brands we all have different succes/preference...
Glider is indeed correct. Would suggest going for one of the well known names however - D Link being one of them.
I'll tell you what, I will give you a bit of info on my experience. I first went to PC World, and bought a standard Belkin 54MB router. It was faulty, I thought, but it was a returned one. So I took that back as faulty, but I now know it was fine. I then went to John Lewis, and bought a D-Link DSL G604T for £108. I was on the phone for around 3 hours, just trying to connect it to the Internet, and I only needed one piece of info: PPPoA. That night went by, and I came back in the morning, and it discconnected, so I reset it, and re typed all the settings. It disconnected around 15 times a day, for around 1 1/2 years. Four days ago, I bought a new Belkin 125 MB router, currently the quickest you can buy, faster than the Pre N models. I have had no problems so far, it connects to my Mac everytime I turn the system on, it never fails, and transfers pages faster than the D-Link. I have heard very few cases about D-Link roducts that have not failed, out of hundreds, so I would throughly recommend to stay far from D-Link, and go with Belkin, or Netgear. I have not heard anything at all about Linksys, but they use the same chips as Belkin, and I think Netgear.
I aim for Netgear stuff personally but WILD9 is exactly correct, each of the big names (D-Link, Netgear, Linksys etc) all use internal chipsets from the likes of Connexant and Texas Instruments. Similar to the way motherboard are made by Abit, DFI etc and the chipsets are made by nVidia, Intel, Ati, Via etc. Best to look for reviews of the specific router models rather than to generalise about makers. Even then you have to be careful. The Linksys WRT54G (IIRC) was getting great reviews and had loads of excellent 3rd party firmwares for it that allowed all sorts of cool stuff. Then they released the v5 of the same router and halved the memory etc on it and made some other internal changes and it SUCKS now apparently. A good cheap choice is to get one of the cheap no-name ones from ebuyer that's compatible with the Routertech 3rd-party firmware. I bought one for my girlfriend's flat when she got DSL and flashed it with the 3rd-party firmware. I buggered it up at first and I thought "There goes £35 " but even if you b0rk the flashing you can still save it which is pretty cool. After getting jiggy with some strange bootloader type progs I recovered the router and flashed the 3rd-party firmware on there and it's been rock solid since. The 3rd party firmware has all the bells & whistles and is easily on par with my own Netgear DG834PN which cost 3x as much (though took less time to set up). For more info on the firmware: http://www.routertech.org/viewtopic.php?t=224
I've been using a D-Link Modem router for the last 2 years, never had any problem with it. I've had a Linksys wireless router (WRT55 A/B/G) since april (in addition to the D-Link as that's also my modem) and it died 2 weeks ago. Linksys are RMAing for it for me no problem though. btw. I thought Linksys were part of Cisco anyway?
