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    Help me pick a router?

    It looks like I'll be keeping the Netgear WNDR4000. I wish the range was a little better but I can fix that with keeping the router up on some boxes in the closet (really improved it from fair/good to excellent). Worst case in a few years I can play the hand me down game again. Thanks for...
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    Help me pick a router?

    I will make the effort to ditch them, but that'll be down the road a bit. I guess with security concerns though I'll expedite it. For the Netgear it works fine with two exceptions: my phone won't connect to the 5GHz band. It sees it, but it will not under any circumstance connect to it (It...
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    Help me pick a router?

    I thought about that, just using two (I have an old WRT-54GL I could get my hands on). Especially if I stay with the AirPort Extreme. To be fair, most of the devices aren't active at a given point - I live alone. Typical use is one of the entertainment devices (PS3, 360, Slingbox, HTPC...
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    wireless router that works with nook & Comcast ?

    You should focus primarily on range then, most should connect to nook - there's nothing unique about it so you'd have to check/try to see if there were issues. Suggestions: ASUS RT-N66U (best range for routers I tested) Cisco EA3500 Cisco E4200v2/EA4500 Cisco tends to be a little easier...
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    Help me pick a router?

    I live in an apartment complex - I can see at least 18 other access points, all of them on 2.4Ghz. So not exactly noise-free. When I test on the 2.4Ghz band I get in the 25-28mbps range. With the AirPort - I could tolerate the lack of performance if the different security levels wasn't an...
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    Help me pick a router?

    I'm starting to have issues with the replacement EA4500 - it keeps having really bad ping times with my modem, even dropping packets. I'll do a ping through cmd window and it'll do <timed out, 17ms, 192ms, 15ms>. I reboot everything and it works fine for an hour, then this starts happening...
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    Help me pick a router?

    So a brief update. I tried an EA4500 but could not for the life of me get it to work with my internet so I swapped it out. In the mean time I also tried out the ASUS RT-N56U only to find it suffers the same issues with Sonos - so that's a no go. Got the replacement EA4500 and the same...
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    Help me pick a router?

    I checked, it's WPA2/AES only, WMM is enabled. And I did go through and shut things down - results are still similar (I did notice it do a little better on average, but that could just be that it wasn't as bad in other rooms). So I don't really know what's wrong truth be told. 2.4GHz...
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    Help me pick a router?

    Yeah, I did an exchange the other day. Still giving me an issue with performance and range (if I move to my kitchen, maybe 40 feet away, it drops down to about 20Mbps). The thing is very reliable though. I get no connection issues, just notably poor performance. My intention is this: 2.4GHz...
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    Help me pick a router?

    I know to expect reduced range with 5GHz but this WNDR4000 is giving me lower range than either of the previous two routers (unless I'm right next to it I can't get above 80% strength). The router is in the middle of the apartment pretty much, in a closet, so primarily there's under 50 feet...
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    Help me pick a router?

    My main needs are speed (namely in file transfers - I do photography as a hobby, transferring 16GB of images every week or so to the home server - moving around lots of music/video too) and reliability. I do like customization as well, at least of things I know I should have control over...
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    Help me pick a router?

    So I had the Netgear WNDR-3700. I was happy with it but my mom needed a new router so I gave her my old one, seeing this as a time to upgrade, get something a little faster. So here's what I'm looking for: - Something with 802.11N - at least 3 LAN ports, preferably 4. - I'd prefer...
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