Help me select a wireless router
I am having problems with my home wireless switch/router. It causes me and my wife to regularly loose Internet connectivity on both wireless and hardwired connections. A restart of the Linksys WRK54G device immediately solves the problems for all connections without taking any action on any of the clients. So that is the reason why I am searching for a new device.
What I am looking for is a wireless/hardwired router/switch combination. I like the features of the WRK54G, but it has seen better days as mentioned above. I am only equipped with 802.11g cards right now and have no desire to upgrade to 802.11n. Here are a few things that I really like and use on the WRK54G and want to have on my new device:
- At least 4 hardwired 100mb ports
- dynamic DNS interoperaility
- Advanced routing (able to add other IP subnets on private side)
- Lots of wireless security options with some backwards compatability
- MAC filtering
- Port forwarding
- 10/100 uplink to telco modem
- VPN PassThrough
Any advice on new device options would be greatly appreciated.
TheOzz
Hank Osborne (aka The Ozz) is a passionate blogging dad who works full-time as a network security engineer. Hank blogs part-time from South Carolina on more than a half dozen blogs. Hank has been blogging since the day his second son Caden was born on 11/2/2004. Caden's Page is still one of Hank's favorite places to blog.
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March 2, 2009
Couple of thoughts…. when was the last time you upgraded the firmware? Also, are you sure it’s not on the modem side?
You could probably pick up a WRT54GL fairly cheap to do all of the above. Another option for the GL or the WRK would be to try DD-WRT 3rd party firmware on it. Loads more options. I run it and love it.
March 3, 2009
K,
Thanks for the advice. I did upgrade the firmware to try and fix things. I am sure it is the Linksys because I cannot ping the private side of the Linksys or between any of the PCs when things lock up. I also drop my wireless connections on laptops when things lock up.
Thanks again!