What’s the best wireless router with at least 4 ports?
Looking for the best wireless router in terms of compatibility, dependability and signal strength.
I have a fairly new Linksys router and I constantly lose the signal on 2 different laptops. Nothing wrong with the wireless cards in either laptop.
Thanks.
Thanks for the answers so far.
In case it helps narrow things down, I live in a very remote area (can see for miles around my house) so security is of minimal importance, but signal strength and speed are a major concern.
Thanks again.
Thanks for the advice, Richard. The old router doesn’t have any output ports on the back and I am needing some, so I am moving that router to a be used somewhere else anyway and plan to purchase one with ports. I just want to be sure I get a good one.
Haven’t done any diagnostics on the signal strength other than seeing that it says “weak” in the system tray.
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4 Responses to “What’s the best wireless router with at least 4 ports?”
I have a NetGear wireless router and I like it so far no troubles.. I got it at Best Buy.
I had a Linksys before and lost signal on my laptop frequently too.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=5925403&type=product&id=1061127609500
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This one is very tough. I’ve used many wireless routers with many different wireless adapters and always get different results.
My favorite was a D-Link, but I’ve had one Sony computer not like that router. I’ve had Linksys’s work fine with that Sony, but not other laptops. I’ve also used no-name brands with very good results. (can you tell I do this for a living?)
Personally I don’t think 802.11 was ready for prime time. Too flakey in many ways, and very un-safe with the requirement to manually setup security. But, most proprietary solutions are no longer available.
Just get a new one, and try it. But make sure you buy from a store that allows returns.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=5925403&type=product&id=1061127609500
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Before scrapping your Linksys router, try a different channel. You can get the info to do this from the Linksys site. Different environments sometimes require using a different channel (often channel 10 instead of channel 6, for example). Have you run diagnostics on the signal strength?
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=5925403&type=product&id=1061127609500
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If you get a linksys wrt54g version 3 or lower, or a wrt54gs, you can upload a diferent modified firmware to the router, such as dd-wrt or openwrt. Then you can increase your transmission power up to 400% Connection issues would be a minimal problem after that.
http://openwrt.org
http://www.dd-wrt.com
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