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    I'm a networking idiot looking to build a home network - please help!

    Hello all! Thanks again for the ongoing replies. An update - I went ahead and purchased the R7000, as it was on sale and the DIR-655 experienced one crash too many. The difference is incredible. No drop-outs, wi-fi is much faster, it doesn't take my wife's desktop 3 minutes to access the...
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    I'm a networking idiot looking to build a home network - please help!

    Thiggins, thanks very much for those links. I had read both the 'how do buy' and the router rankings, and had settled on the R7000 - until I began reading the forums. Now I am questioning both choice and set-up. Is the R7000 overkill, do I need more than one (answered by System Error Message...
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    I'm a networking idiot looking to build a home network - please help!

    Thanks for the replies. Apologies for the duplicate post - my router crashed (again) as I was attempting to upload the thread. Oh the irony. We don't have 100Mb/s - I wish we did, but here in Ontario that kind of package would bankrupt us. We have 30Mb/s download and 10Mb/s upload. My...
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    I'm a networking idiot looking to build a home network - please help!

    Hello everyone. Apologies for a question that undoubtedly has been asked thousands of times before. I presently have a D-Link DIR-655 router, which began random (and frequent) disconnects two days ago. The disconnects occur every few minutes, and require a power-down and power-up to 'solve'...
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