help 2 chose wifi router??

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sunnyhanda

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Hi all

well cut the long story short-i want to buy wireless router for my self as my internet provider"Airtel" gave such bad chinese shitty router which never works fine. i have searched alot on ebay but there are so many companies so no idea what to choose? and moreover there is hell of list of +n, b, g blah blah alot confusing things.
plz recomend me a nice and fast + also support all laptop. as i have 2 old acer 3000 series, new dell 15r, and 1 asus u80.

thanks
 
For general home use any router will be fine.

I can almost guarantee your computer will support only b and g. N literally means your signal goes further but you need an n adapter for that and is pointless in an average home.

How many devices are you thinking of connecting to the router? If only a couple a 54mbps router will be more than adequate (unless you have a 100meg line).
 
Jon Boy said:
For general home use any router will be fine.

I can almost guarantee your computer will support only b and g. N literally means your signal goes further but you need an n adapter for that and is pointless in an average home.

How many devices are you thinking of connecting to the router? If only a couple a 54mbps router will be more than adequate (unless you have a 100meg line).
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Thanks for your help. well my family is big so probably 4 or 5 laptops will use the same wireless router,but all im just concern about that my 2 laptops are old(acer 3000) and rest laptops are new one's so buy any router makes a difference such as old may not support N or G OR its just i can use any router.
 
If they are old laptops with built in wireless adapters they will either be using b or g. You can buy a router the supports n, this will be backwards compatible with b and g but cost more.

A 54mbps access point should be adequate as the line speed most likely will be a lot less than this.

However if you are regularly linking 5 computers to the access point and file sharing data to the other computers on the LAN, then I would suggest 108mbps router.

As for which one to pick, if you stick with the major brands i.e. Lynksys, Netgear and Belkin, then you cant go far wrong. All have decent device support from the manufacturer with easy to configure options.

Hope this helps.
Jon
 
very nice choice there, espically if you can throw a third party firmware on it...i had to with my GS, and made it 100x more reliable than the firmware that linksys ships it with
 
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