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Routers - which to pick
Saras:
Really? Wireless G? Granted that old linksys is a fine router and all that, but it has been a bottleneck on speed since 09 or so.
I'd recommend an Asus RT-N56U, but it's not on your list. Out of your list, I'd go with EA2500, heard a decent amount of praise what concerns it.
gits:
I don't think it matters with 2mbps line
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Freedom Kira:
I have ASUS's RT-N16 with Tomato USB installed on it. It's quite excellent.
bloody000:
One thing to keep in mind, while dd-wrt and Tomato have lots of features, they generally have worse (or far worse) routing performance than the original firmware. Every test of dd-wrt/tomato on smallnetbuilder.com I ever read shows this.
kitamesume:
^ plus i've started reading that tomato works better than dd-wrt with QoS management, or more like dd-wrt's QoS seems to be broken.
i'd really like to have a working QoS, specially with a stupid slow 2mbps line. i only need to de-prioritize torrent and huge downloads( over 100mb per file ), while prioritize gaming and browsing.
edit: as a follow up, i've been reading on smallnetbuilder for some of the routers on the list (linksys E1200, netgear WNR2000)
and i was like wtf about their simultaneous connections, WNR2000 only had max 200, while linksys had 8142... if torrenting does put up a connection to each seed/peer, it would mean that it'd get saturated easily in just a few torrents up and running =x
im getting worried about the ASUS router, although asus claims 30,000 max sessions on RT-N12. but since i can't find any real review on it its giving me worries, well so far at least.
PS: linksys E1200 is on dd-wrt.
edit2: it seems like ASUS RT-N12 could at least handle up to 2,000 connected P2P, i'm running on the safe side since my torrent is capped at 400 global max connections. 2days till i pick one up, i need more good news to feel satisfactory.
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