Dir-655 still a great choice? What else to look at?

[SeanFL]

I have about 10 dlink dir-655's installed at various locations. I also run them in my house and business. So far have been pleased with their uptime, lack of needing a reboot, etc.

One location is a school. The dir-655 is the first stop after the cable modem, serves up DHCP for about 40 machines, and provides the wireless in the front office area. The school took a big lightning hit, and unfortunately some of the gear in the front office didn't make it. I have one dead dir-655 and they are now on the backup.

Is there something in the near $100 price range that many find better than the dir-655? Reliability would be the top priority. Wireless range and throughput would be a close second.

The review of the ASUS RT-N56U looks pretty good. Anyone have thoughts on the asus and the dir-655?

Thanks for any help.

Sean

 

[stevech]

Opinion (disclaimer)

D-Link - most of their products' firmware is badly designed. Occasionally they do OK.
Netgear makes good metal-box switches. That's it.

ASUS great motherboards, but their logo on brand X WiFi is not a good think.

Belkin and Linksys and probably Buffalo ususally adopt good reference designs from Broadcom. Rarely are there lemon products.