Main > Everything Else
Lightning
shmokes:
I watched lightning strike a telephone pole about 500 feet from my back door. It startled the hell out of me. I happened to be watching the lightning storm out my back door when it hit. It also fried my modem and router :timebomb:
Cable company replaced the modem, but now I need to replace the router. Anybody have a recommendation for a stable wireless router with good range, DHCP (manually assignable by MAC address), good port forwarding, preferably MAC filtering for wireless, preferably domain filtering. Gigabit eithernet is also important, but not a dealbreaker.
Also, cheap. Under $100 would be ideal.
On another note I watched my cat fall in a swimming pool for no reason at all a few days ago. It was ---smurfing--- hilarious. No wind. Wasn't being chased (though he had just taken off to chase another cat). Wasn't pushed. He just fell in. He thrashed around for a good ten or fifteen seconds before he finally managed to pull himself to safety and he ran away like the pool had attacked him and pulled him in.
Jdurg:
:laugh2:
That cat story had me in painful tears. :laugh2:
Anyway, for a router I'm quite happy with the Linksys router I use. It's a wireless (and wired if you want to) router that has so many options for set up that it can actually be a bit intimidating at times. I forget the model number, but I got it through my work who requires a VERY secure router if you are working from home. The range is fantastic and I have never had any problems with it. So I'd look up Linksys and see what you can get from them.
Ed_McCarron:
Linksys is nice and easy, but has (at least the stuff a few years old did) problems with port forwarding and talking to some other brands of wifi adapter. My linksys is augmented by a dlink - the linksys won't talk to my axim's wifi, but the dlink will. It also doesn't like serving passive FTP traffic.
YMMV.
Coin_Op:
The cat has a small head which = a small brain.
I have 2 cats, and I will never figure out why they behave like they were born yesterday all the time!
Cakemeister:
I have a Linksys WRT330N. Although I have the wireless part disabled, it works well. It has five gigabit switched connections to go with the wireless.
It's designed for gamers so it has the DMZ, port forwarding, and other features needed for gaming.
I don't recall the price, but usually you get what you pay for in this kind of device.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
Go to full version