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Hi all! I am wondering if anyone has any good recommendations for a good gaming router and something that can use Wake-on-LAN. The router I have is currently from my ISP (Comcast) and it sucks. I've looked through every website for alternate firmware such as DD-WRT and Tomato and none of them support my router. I had an old router that I did change the firmware to DD-WRT but it is now broken… =(

Any suggestions would be great. Thanks!

Great question dude, I have researched this before. I found a good review for good throughput through the router (A big deal I think, since my crappy router is like max 2MB/s): http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/802.11n-wireless-router-access-point,2605.html

Most of those should be DD-WRT or Tomato compatible but definitely double check.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833124190

Linksys WRT54GL has never failed me. I bought a n router but ended up going back to this 2/3 year old router.

From: cause
Great question dude, I have researched this before. I found a good review for good throughput through the router (A big deal I think, since my crappy router is like max 2MB/s): http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/802.11n-wireless-router-access-point,2605.html

Most of those should be DD-WRT or Tomato compatible but definitely double check.

Thanks a lot that's quite an article. I'll check em out ;)

From: Narcle
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833124190

Linksys WRT54GL has never failed me. I bought a n router but ended up going back to this 2/3 year old router.

I actually think this was my old router :O. It's pretty decent but I'd prefer a n router.

EDIT: Btw, anyone else have like half of your routers or more broken because of a power outage? Idk. It seems a lot of my routers have died because of a power surge or something…

From: PotentPK
Thanks a lot that's quite an article. I'll check em out ;)



I actually think this was my old router :O. It's pretty decent but I'd prefer a n router.

Ahh, for higher speed wireless I'm using D-Link DIR-615-C1, I got it on sale for $20 during a Black Friday. With DD-WRT its working much better… but I can't really recommend it. I'll be using a new Netgear router at work soon, I'll let you know if it works good. (already know the customer support sux tho =/ )

From: Narcle
Ahh, for higher speed wireless I'm using D-Link DIR-615-C1, I got it on sale for $20 during a Black Friday. With DD-WRT its working much better… but I can't really recommend it. I'll be using a new Netgear router at work soon, I'll let you know if it works good. (already know the customer support sux tho =/ )

Thanks :)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833320038

best bang for your buck

put tomatousb on it

http://tomatousb.org/tut:installing-on-asus-rt-n16
tutorial there

From: cause
Great question dude, I have researched this before. I found a good review for good throughput through the router (A big deal I think, since my crappy router is like max 2MB/s): http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/802.11n-wireless-router-access-point,2605.html

Most of those should be DD-WRT or Tomato compatible but definitely double check.

With mine running on tomato I'll get around 70MB/s average.. wireless I get around 10-20MB/s depending on time of day since neighbors have wireless traffic too.. I run on a 40mhz wave length and the lowest I've seen my wireless hit was 130mbps.. so it's usually pretty awesome

I second http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833124190
One of the most popular routers out there.

From: YoHoJo
I second http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833124190
One of the most popular routers out there.

Ours failed finally after 5 years ;)

From: mormonman
Ours failed finally after 5 years ;)

Yea I had one since I moved to Colorado (1999) maybe the older version but looking identical..

it died in 09 so I go the asus one lol..