DarkScythe
New Around Here
Hello,
I found your site via posters over at HardForum/Anandtech, and I've been doing a lot of research on the site; it's been extremely helpful.
However, I'm kind of stuck right now, and would like to ask for some help in making a decision.
My D-link DGL-4300 died a couple weeks ago, and I need to replace it. As I was busy at the time, I fell back on a temporary solution of hooking up an old Cisco 10/100 switch in front of my DSL modem/router. (I used to run the modem in bridge mode.)
Anyway, since I was looking to upgrade, I figured I'd go for "the best", which seemed like a high capacity, simultaneous dual-band, 3x3 N router (since 4x4 don't seem to be out) but since reviewing this site, it seems that's not very feasible either.
I came down to the WNDR-3700, Cisco E3000, and various dlink's including the D-link DIR-855. Unfortunately, it seems there were problems (deal breakers for me) with every single one of them. It mostly came down to the features in the firmware, so I looked at the configuration emulators for dlink and DD-WRT, as well as Trendnet (which seems to be a blue-colored clone of dlink) and I also went over to a friend's house to look at his Netgear WNDR3700, and a Tomato router.
I suppose I'm too used to dlink now, since I enjoyed its extensive logging abilities, where everything else seems to have very basic logging functionality, so I don't think I'd be happy with any of them right now.
Particularly, I don't know if D-link has managed to fix their firmware issue where their routers (notably the DGL-4500) would slow to a crawl and require a reboot every couple days.
If this has been fixed though, Should i bother going for the DIR-855?
If not, it seems the next best option is just to buy something cheap and wait for better N routers. In this case, I have found both a secondhand DGL-4300 and DIR-655 Rev A4 for cheap.
My main issue now is while the DGL-4300 would be a direct replacement, I also wanted something that could handle torrents a bit better, and looked into simultaneous connections. I also game a lot, but my brother downloads torrents pretty much 24/7, and I occasionally torrent as well.
This led me to the DIR-655 which seems well received, but then I noticed there were a billion revisions.. A1, A2, A3, A4, B1(?), and B2(?) I have no idea what to look for. Are there any major problems with any of them, or should I just jump on that cheap A4 version? As a note, the DIR-655 and DGL-4300 I've found are the same price.
Thank you for any advice.
I found your site via posters over at HardForum/Anandtech, and I've been doing a lot of research on the site; it's been extremely helpful.
However, I'm kind of stuck right now, and would like to ask for some help in making a decision.
My D-link DGL-4300 died a couple weeks ago, and I need to replace it. As I was busy at the time, I fell back on a temporary solution of hooking up an old Cisco 10/100 switch in front of my DSL modem/router. (I used to run the modem in bridge mode.)
Anyway, since I was looking to upgrade, I figured I'd go for "the best", which seemed like a high capacity, simultaneous dual-band, 3x3 N router (since 4x4 don't seem to be out) but since reviewing this site, it seems that's not very feasible either.
I came down to the WNDR-3700, Cisco E3000, and various dlink's including the D-link DIR-855. Unfortunately, it seems there were problems (deal breakers for me) with every single one of them. It mostly came down to the features in the firmware, so I looked at the configuration emulators for dlink and DD-WRT, as well as Trendnet (which seems to be a blue-colored clone of dlink) and I also went over to a friend's house to look at his Netgear WNDR3700, and a Tomato router.
I suppose I'm too used to dlink now, since I enjoyed its extensive logging abilities, where everything else seems to have very basic logging functionality, so I don't think I'd be happy with any of them right now.
Particularly, I don't know if D-link has managed to fix their firmware issue where their routers (notably the DGL-4500) would slow to a crawl and require a reboot every couple days.
If this has been fixed though, Should i bother going for the DIR-855?
If not, it seems the next best option is just to buy something cheap and wait for better N routers. In this case, I have found both a secondhand DGL-4300 and DIR-655 Rev A4 for cheap.
My main issue now is while the DGL-4300 would be a direct replacement, I also wanted something that could handle torrents a bit better, and looked into simultaneous connections. I also game a lot, but my brother downloads torrents pretty much 24/7, and I occasionally torrent as well.
This led me to the DIR-655 which seems well received, but then I noticed there were a billion revisions.. A1, A2, A3, A4, B1(?), and B2(?) I have no idea what to look for. Are there any major problems with any of them, or should I just jump on that cheap A4 version? As a note, the DIR-655 and DGL-4300 I've found are the same price.
Thank you for any advice.