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[kidcapri]

http://www.tigerdire...p;Sku=N100-1499

On that note check out the rest of the deals at tigerdirect.com. They are having some sort of summer overstock clearance sale.


Edit: Btw, I have that exact same router. It works really well. I have never had it drop a connection or anything.

Edit 2: I might buy THIS, so I can make THIS.

Edited by kidcapri, 18 September 2006 - 02:47 AM.

[Sniprwulf]

i've read alotta reviews on that router and people complain how sh*tty it is and regret not getting a linksys router. you get what you pay for.

[ShLoNkY]

That noodle strainer antenna looks retarded. HAHA. I wouldnt think that something like that would would unless the strainer had a perfect parabolic shape. Dish antennas like that are engineered precisely so that all the signals are perfectly bounced off it and shot at the reciever.

If I was going to try something like that, I'd go get a sattelite dish and mount the USB antenna on the existing LNB. Id bet that would work pretty good.........

[kidcapri]

That router owns. I know because I have one. Linksys routers as of lately, are the ones that are sucking ass.

Oh and that antenna is awesome. I was reading on some other forums somewhere that it can actually go a couple of miles down the road. Depending on how you build it correctly. I thought about finding an old satellite dish and using that but idk.

[Sniprwulf]

all of the reviews i've read speak for themselves, linksys > netgear. i've ownd all linksys routers and one netgear router b4. the wireless on the netgear wasnt as powerful and crapped out on me a year after i had it. if a router is 20 bucks, it was made cheap. otherwise, they wouldnt be able to sell it at that price.

[kidcapri]

All routers from a company are not the same. Even if they have the same model number. Linksys for example has routers that go from version 1 to version 6 of the same router. Linksys changed the firmware on their recent wireless routers. Beginning with version 5 they changed to a different firmware. The new firmware sucks ass. It loses connections all the time and other random problems. Trust me I have owned new and old linksys routers.

The reason they changed the firmware is because you were able to "hack" the old router because it was running a versions of linux. Meaning you could actually put a completely different firmware on it. Making the router able to broadcast up to a mile. You could also change a few other things about the way it works. You can still hack the newer routers, but its a lot longer process and not really worth it. A normal person would not know how to do this and would just return the router.

So with that said, I bought a version 5 linksys router not to long ago. It was complete sh*t. So I bought the netgear that I linked to. It has never dropped or lost a connection to the internet. I have had it for over 2 months now. The linksys would lose connection at least 10 times daily. The reviews you are reading are more than likely from linksys fanboys.

[medel]

Careful with Tigerdirect. They kind of suck balls. Other than that, I'm staying out of the brand war for routers.