Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion The Water Cooler Wireless Router

Clearly I need to do something about mine... every month or so I need to restart it to get it to pick up my dsl again. But I'm pretty sure that's a firmware issue with my particular model.

I avoid that only because I periodically reboot (once every couple of months?) my cable modem and the router. If I don't things seem to slow down a bit more than I'd like. It's more to do with the modem than with the router, but I reboot both anyway.

Hmm. Don't have the slowdown problem, it just loses the connection.

It looks as if we have a winner, thanks guys.

wid, also look at the WRT54GL (see the user reviews for both of them on Newegg). There are more GLs sold, the reviews are better and (if you have the courage and knowledge)you can use 3rd party software with it

If you have a signal strength problem (I did), you can pick up a set of high gain antennae from Radio Shack that work well.

Hmmm? Weird! I've never had that problem. Cable vs.DSL??? My brother has DSL, and he loses connection periodically and has to reboot his router and modem.

I've used many routers. Some better than others.

I've never had any problems with Linksys stuff, aside from occasionally needing to update the firmware. My last router was a Belkin, which was fine for about a year and then started having problems maintaining connections and generally occasionally acting flaky. I replaced it with a D-Link DIR-655 based on many internet reviews.

It's been the best router I've ever used. Rock solid stability, tons of features, gigabit nic, up to 300mb 802.11N connections, great range on both 802.11G/N, etc, etc. Likewise, I would have to reboot the Belkin monthly to keep my DSL up and running. Haven't had to reboot the 655 since I first set it up, 3 months ago.

Definitely check it out if you're in the market for a higher-end, heavy-featured consumer router.