Brian,
Thank you for your concise view of 'personal' history.
I have considered you a 'wifi' link/consultant since you did
go there. No harm, no foul.
I do accept that what you currently live with is my future.
Regardless of how much I still fight the inevitable.
In due time I may change. Please do not track this.
I live on a 100Mbps fiber connection with my non-wifi
life. I am very happy with this.
Do I believe I will be swept away in time? Yes.
Untilthen, I remain a wired-LAN, one router, single network
kind of guy. It works fine for me.
I giggle at your Dad's response to your very wise counsel
about his router. Fine. Your Dad may not be aware/care about QOS.
Hell! I have never played with QOS. Each time I try to 'enable' it, I
loose my connection. Fine, let's blame my ISP, let's blame my settings,
let's believe I really may not need IT.
....let's believe the QOS is really part of 'wifi.' That is my working
knowledge ATM. My wired LAN works just fine otherwise.
Will 'wifi' finally absorb me? Yes, perhaps. It will be an ugly conversion!
This is the 'market inertiathat exists at this time. I do this. I get this.
Happy New Year! Best to you and yours.
Duncan
On 01/04/2013 15:08, Brian Weeden wrote:
While I agree with only upgrading if necessary (ie, I'm still using a Q6600
in my main machine and loving it), I think having a good router is
generally undervalued. For years I went with the Apple routers and they
ended being rock-solid, while at the same time I went through 5 different
routers at my parent's place trying to find one that wouldn't lock up when
the family came home for Christmas. The biggest difference was that the
Apple router was relatively expensive ($150 or so) and my Dad kept
insisting on paying less than $100 for his router and went with a series of
the random ones you find at Best Buy.
Increasingly we are putting more and more wireless devices on our home
networks, all of which rely on a good router to connect to the world.
There are a lot of ways in which an older or sub-standard router can
quickly become a bottleneck in that scenario. Maybe it has too big of a
buffer, or maybe it can't handle more than a few devices, or maybe it
doesn't allow for QoS determinations to prioritize certain services or
devices. Maybe it has some significant security holes.
Whatever the case, over the last couple of years I've morphed from someone
who used to consider routers a commodity and bought whatever to someone who
considers it a piece of hardware worth putting some time and effort into
researching and some money into making sure it's a good quality product
that has the features I need.
---------
Brian
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Greg Sevart <[email protected]> wrote:
Well, I was really partly trying to get at a bigger point--we've reached a
point in computing where it's sometimes hard to justify upgrades for
practical reasons anymore. Does Windows really get _materially_ faster
upgrading from a Q6600 to a 3750K? I would posit that the answer is
generally no--the use cases that are seeing material improvement (gaming,
video encoding, etc.) are ever shrinking. We've reached an age in which
hardware that is 3-4 years old, once an age considered far too old to be
remotely useful, can actually still chug along. Put another way, I think
we've reached a new age in computing in that yesteryear's tech is still
able
to cope with many of today's loads in a way that just didn't used to
happen.
I think the advent of multi-core processors at an affordable price and
cheap
RAM are the primary drivers here--and I suspect SSD, once made standard on
your typical office desktop or laptop, will take it to an even greater
degree of practical longevity.
Or maybe we're just waiting on the next killer app. :)
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Anthony Q.
Martin
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2013 12:56 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [H] Router recommendations $50 - $100
I took that has a given, Greg. "Because I want to" is good enough for
almost everything that doesn't impact anyone but me. :)
On 1/4/2013 1:07 PM, Greg Sevart wrote:
I have decided that "because I want to" is sufficient justification to
upgrade.
It has to be--I like playing with new hardware, but I certainly can't
point
to any defensible reason behind most of my more recent upgrades. My most
recent move was to 2x Samsung 840 Pro SSDs...from 830's that didn't even
get
installed.
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Naushad
Zulfiqar
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2013 5:45 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [H] Router recommendations $50 - $100
Mine has been going strong for over a year and takes everything I throw
at
it with aplomb.
I still can't find a reason to upgrade. Which is odd for me since I
upgrade
at the drop of a hat.
On Jan 2, 2013 1:58 AM, "Bobby Heid" <[email protected]> wrote:
I went with the Asus. Thanks for the recommendation.
Bobby
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Naushad
Zulfiqar
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2012 11:34 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [H] Router recommendations $50 - $100
If you don't need wireless n our gigabit then go for the wrt54gl.
Otherwise
Asus rtn56u
On Dec 31, 2012 7:32 PM, "Bobby Heid" <[email protected]> wrote:
I have a friend whose kids have trashed her very old router. Antenna
are
broken, have to keep resetting it, etc.
What would you all recommend in the $50-100 range?
Thanks,
Bobby
