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Old November 25, 2010, 12:19 PM
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So I have a Linksys WRT610N dual band router and I have someone dying to buy it off me. So now its a great time for me to upgrade, but whats the best router these days?
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Old November 25, 2010, 12:56 PM
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I honestly don't think there's a much better router out there than what you have right now. At least on a consumer level, if you really feel the upgrade addiction tingling then I guess you could either make a routerbox or get a pricey enterprise level router.
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Old November 26, 2010, 05:51 AM
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Look up some of the routerboard/Mikrotik routers. They are linux based, commercial level routers but at a fraction of the price.
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Old November 26, 2010, 10:54 AM
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Look up some of the routerboard/Mikrotik routers. They are linux based, commercial level routers but at a fraction of the price.
Sure but the configuration is not as straight forward as it is with normal consumer stuff like D-Link or whatever else.
Without mentioning if you start to play around with openwrt or even routeros a bit more deeply for config and scripts.
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Anybody out there found a decent wireless N simultaneous dual band (so it can run both G and N without defaulting to G for all devices) with Giga ports? That's my next step, but I'm not sure they're out there at an affordable price.
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