armtuk

So - last night I bought yet another wireless router. It's amazing to me that these products are so flaky. I have had wireless routers from Linksys, Belkin and Netgear and they all suck. Between a friend of mine and I we tried four Linksys routers, and there were serious problems with each of them, they couldn't keep a wireless connection up. I finally got mine to behave enough to use it, then we moved house, and I couldn't get it to take a new configuration. The Belkin wouldn't keep a connection to the internet for more than five minutes. The first Netgear I had worked okay, but then I moved, and had to get a new router. I figured I had had good luck with the first Netgear, so I bought another. This one won't keep port forwards open. I set up port forwarding, it works for about 10 minutes, then it stops working. So this time I went for one of the only makes left, D-Link. So far so good. The wireless is working, the port forwarding is working, and it has kept a connection to the internet for 18 hours. So far so good... Next I guess I'll buy a buffalo if this router flakes out on me. Oh and the Netgear seemed like it reset itself every so often as all my connections would suddenly drop after a few hours of idle. The wireless connection was always in and out, but never out long enough to actually drop my connections.

What do I have to do - buy a cisco 871W? at $522, who the hell can afford that?