Just Ordered This Router After

[crokett]

1 too many reboots of my current Netgear. I've had to power cycle it about 5 times a week on average for a while now. Either the laptops don't connect wirelessly or they are connected and things start timing out, or both. The latest was yesterday it timed out no less than 5 times. This gets tiresome when I am WFH and my VPN connection, etc goes down because the router is timing out. I also made sure it has a print server on it so I can connect the printer to it and run Linux full-time on the desktop. Any Windows programs I need I have Virtual Box for. Plus it has the capability to run WRT if I decide to upgrade to it. My current one doesn't.

My wife only cares that printing is now simpler to troubleshoot since she can print directly to the printer.

http://www.amazon.com/Asus-WL-520GU-...ecc_rvi_cart_1

[dbhost]

To show you how long i have been using the same router... I wasn't even aware that Asus was making them, and I am still running an old SMC 8 port with a parallel port for a printer connection.

[crokett]

I bought the current one (a Netgear) because the previous one I had was a Netgear and it was bullet proof. One day it just up and died. I don't know why. The current one used to be a once or twice a week reboot which is acceptable. There was also a weird problem with the websites of some friends where I couldn't see pictures they hosted. I would get half a picture and the rest would be a gray square. If I bypassed the router and/or viewed the pages at work the pictures showed up just fine.

[LCHIEN]

i thought you were getting a bosch 1617evs

[crokett]

i thought you were getting a bosch 1617evs

Nope. I already own a DeWalt 621 and a PC 690 that is table mounted.

[BobSch]

I think we need a separate section for computer questions. From the thread title I was was assuming you were looking for something that goes 'round and 'round, not Beep Beep.

[sparkeyjames]

I get p.o.'ed if I have to reboot my linksys router at home more than 1 time per month.
At work if I have to reboot my linux router computer more than 1 time a year I get really angry.

[crokett]

I think we need a separate section for computer questions. From the thread title I was was assuming you were looking for something that goes 'round and 'round, not Beep Beep.

Actually, so do I but at the same time that isn't really the primary mission of BT3Central. How about we all agree that if it is a router (the tool) we post it in Tool Talk but if is a router (the computer gadget) it goes in Off-Topic?

[Norm in Fujino]

About the only thing I'm certain will lock up my router is for me to try and access anyone's blog on blogspot.com. I can't for the life of me figure out why, but as soon as I go to blogspot, I'm locked up and have to turn the router off/on--and hopefully get my internet connection back.

[atgcpaul]

Almost makes you wonder if the router companies actually
have their equipment set to fail or secretly download a
"patch" so they fail on their own. My router reboots are
becoming mor often too.

[crokett]

Paul,

Nice thought but it seems self-defeating since the new router is not a Netgear like the current one is. Why would anyone buy the same brand they have problems with?

[just started]

The only time my LinkSys gets rebooted is when I have a power outage, which has been about 3 times in the 10 or so years I've had the router.

[cgallery]

I'm a big fan of the dd-wrt firmware. I'm running it on quite a few routers.

I use it in conjunction w/ opendns, which I use to help block spyware. Opendns also allows me to block site categories for clients (so employees can't sit on facebook all day long).

[crokett]

The only time my LinkSys gets rebooted is when I have a power outage, which has been about 3 times in the 10 or so years I've had the router.

Yeah, my first router was a Netgear. I got a deal on it - it was a small-business class and it just kept chugging. I never had to restart it that I know of. 7 years later it up and died. Have no idea why. I replaced with the current one, Netgear again and it is crap.

[FL Buckeye]

Don't know anything about the ASUS routers, but have heard mostly good about their laptops and note books. Having the print server built in is a plus.
I have a Linksys WRT54G and WRT54GL, with both running tomato. The OEM was probably good enough but I like to tinker. I have never had to reset either except after a power outage or when my tinkering caused a problem.

I used to be responsible for a network of IBM ATM switches and Cisco routers. They got reset regularly as IBM always had updates to the ATM firmware that I had to download to my laptop and then upload to the switches. Have been away from the latest & greatest for a few years and don't have the time nor $$ to keep up. I am trying to figure out how to connect one wireless router to another so may have to open a new thread to get some ideas, but will wait till after the holidays.