Re: home router recommendation?



On 2009.07.10 16:16:06,
the amazing <kevinmcm@xxxxxxxxx> declared:

In article <missinglink-F08C54.10105310072009@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
RobertB <missinglink@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <jollyroger-735549.18131309072009@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Jolly Roger <jollyroger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

<snip!>

Personally, I would probably go with a Netgear before a D-Link and
certainly before the crap that is Linksys!

OK. Linksys seems to get a fair amount of negative feedback these days.
At one time, I thought they were somewhat Mac-friendly. Too bad Asante
doesn't make home hardware any longer.

Linksys isn't a Mac versus PC issue. Their hardware has very few
features and is extremely slow. I bought one of their small-business
router/firewall combos recently and it dropped packets above 1.5Mbps
with nothing but NAT turned on. Turning on the firewall brought it to
its knees. There were no business features on the router at all. It
was just NAT, firewall, and port mapping.

For comparison, my Netgear small-business router/firewall does 61Mbps
with NAT and firewall on, has two WAN ports with load balancing and
failover modes, does VPN, maps between multiple WAN and LAN addresses,
QoS and throttling by protocol, and other good stuff. My only gripe is
that firmware updates are not compatible with each other so all
information has to be manually re-entered.

Does anyone have any experience to report about
the Netgear RP614NA?

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