Router Recommendations?

[ffutures]

My router is playing silly buggers - as soon as I try to do any sort of large file download by wireless it loses its modem connection. It's fine with wired connections. This has been an intermittent problem before, but it now seems to be happening a lot more.

The current one is a netgear WGT624 wireless G cable router with 4 port switch - I need to replace it with something with at least that many sockets, 10/100 or 10/100/1000, firewall, and preferably no horrible flaws. I seem to recall seeing somewhere that some recent router upgrades added horrible problems, but the details have escaped me - something about DRM?

Anyway, any suggestions?

Comments

[saranjeuhal.livejournal.com]

We've used a Linksys WRT54G for years and it's been fine and is upgradeable. They're got a new range of Wireless-N routers as well.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Thanks - I'll take a look at it. Don't see any great need for N, none of my gear supports it so far.

[saranjeuhal.livejournal.com]

You can get them cheap on eBay. Then install DD-WRT onto it and you get a much better experience.

[sbisson.livejournal.com]

I use a Zyxel 660HW. It's a damn fine piece of kit, and is currently synced to DSL at 7Mbps, and is happily streaming wireless from the US while handling all our email (with ActiveSync push and a BlackBerry server for mobile devices). It'll also do torrents well...

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Thanks!