Hi guys
I'm looking to boost the range and reliability of my wireless connection, at the moment im using a Sky Netgear DG834GT which came as part of my Sky broadband.
The Netgear DG834GT doesnt cover even half of my house and its not really capable of dealing with multiple clients (3 PCs, 3 Macs, PS3 and a printer) or any kind of media streaming. It tends to overheat alot and need rebooting. Now i have to keep using this awful modem as part of sky's T&Cs, BUT i can just use it as a modem and get another router to do all the routing, which in theory should take a load off of the netgear (so it doesnt have to do so much work, thus less reboots hopefully)
So what kind of router am i looking for? I would like one with better range and reliability, probably using the wireless N standard since all the computers in my house comply with that. Also i'd like it to be easily capable of media streaming including HD media (which can be problematic i know, but at least the PS3 would only be one room away). Finally, i'd like the router to be capable of providing some form of basic NAS (using an external HDD presumably) readily accessible by both the Macs & PCs
Above all of course i'd like it to be cheap as i dont really fancy spending much more than £100
With the above in mind im considering the Buffalo Nfiniti Wireless-N, NETGEAR WNDR3700 RANGEMAX and ASUS RT-N13U
of the 3 i'm leaning towards the Asus as it seems suitable and the best value, having said that i'd rather get your opinions first and see if you can suggest any better alternatives.
Cheers, Ali
I'm looking to boost the range and reliability of my wireless connection, at the moment im using a Sky Netgear DG834GT which came as part of my Sky broadband.
The Netgear DG834GT doesnt cover even half of my house and its not really capable of dealing with multiple clients (3 PCs, 3 Macs, PS3 and a printer) or any kind of media streaming. It tends to overheat alot and need rebooting. Now i have to keep using this awful modem as part of sky's T&Cs, BUT i can just use it as a modem and get another router to do all the routing, which in theory should take a load off of the netgear (so it doesnt have to do so much work, thus less reboots hopefully)
So what kind of router am i looking for? I would like one with better range and reliability, probably using the wireless N standard since all the computers in my house comply with that. Also i'd like it to be easily capable of media streaming including HD media (which can be problematic i know, but at least the PS3 would only be one room away). Finally, i'd like the router to be capable of providing some form of basic NAS (using an external HDD presumably) readily accessible by both the Macs & PCs
Above all of course i'd like it to be cheap as i dont really fancy spending much more than £100
With the above in mind im considering the Buffalo Nfiniti Wireless-N, NETGEAR WNDR3700 RANGEMAX and ASUS RT-N13U
of the 3 i'm leaning towards the Asus as it seems suitable and the best value, having said that i'd rather get your opinions first and see if you can suggest any better alternatives.
Cheers, Ali