Technology- NetGear WNR854T 802.11 draftN router with Gigabit Ethernet
I’m giving up on my Belkin pre-N router. I have to reset the stupid thing 2-3 times per day. I suspect there is a bug
in some firewall or parental control feature where too much HTTP traffic (uploads from a backup service) cause it to lock up and
not route HTTP anymore. The strange thing is that it keeps routing other protocols just fine.
In any case, I’ve ordered the NetGear WNR854T from NewEgg for $139 with free shipping. I’m fearing that I’m going to regret this purchase-
its the one with the Marvell chipset instead of the Broadcom stuff, but on the other hand its wired ports have gigabit ethernet. All of the rest of my
wired stuff is gigabit so I just couldn’t bring myself to buy more slower equipment especially since I do lots of high-bandwidth video, etc within the house.
For many people faster than 100mbit doesn’t matter at all since they just use the network to talk to the Internet, but i’ve got several TB of storage and
like to be able to access it at close to local-disk speeds.
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