Posted: 2/7/2010 4:01:27 AM EDT
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I've had a trusty Linksys BEFSR41 for the past 9 years, and it's finally crapped out. Friday morning, I woke up to no online capability. At first I thought it was the modem, until I saw the red diag light on the router. I tried doing a hard reset of the router several times, but to no avail. So here I sit, in the market for a new router.
9 years is a solid run for a router, IMO. So what's available these days that would be a good replacement for the BEFSR41? I play a lot of online games, both on my PC and with consoles (I have a PS3 as well as an XBox360), so low latency is a pretty big requirement. |
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Try checking the Router Charts here:
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/ They have charts for both LAN/WAN throughput on copper, and Wireless throughput. Good Luck! FluxPrism |
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Funny thing is that I just bought a brand new BEFSR41. I was having all kinds of trouble with my wireless router. I had a D-Link (don't remember the model) and I kept losing the wired connection. I got tired of it and replaced it with a Linksys. I wouldn't lose my connection as far as the computer was concerned (no errors or anything) but browsing, emailing, etc would just grind to a halt. After battling this for a couple of months I finally decided to break the network up into multiple devices. I now run a BEFSR41 for my desktop computers in the office and use a D-Link DAP-1522 wireless access point for my laptop and iPod.
One point of interest: A friend at work gave me his BEFSR41 but it sucked horribly. I couldn't update the firmware and the best I could do on speed tests was about 5MB down. When I put the newer model in I was back up to 24MB. I haven't had ANY trouble since splitting the network devices. |
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Weird, I just had to replace my ~9 yr old Linksys wireless router about three or four months ago too. Mine started having timeouts in the browser, network slowdowns, etc.
I replaced it with Netgear WNDR3700 router and have been very happy with the performance so far. |
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Quoted:
In the spirit of ar-15.com, roll you own! Get an old box with 2 NIC’s, and install a UTM free disto. Untangle Ebox There a few others. Unified Threat Management is a all in one type device. Only thing else you would need is a $30 switch from Ebay. Guess I shouldn't have thrown that old Win98 machine away today. 
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