Need help choosing a router

[N1NJA]

The antenna just snapped off my current router and I need something new, preferably ~$100 or less. Only need 4 wired ports because theres only 2 pc's, but it MUST have a very strong wireless signal, it's gotta go thru a tv (big tv lol) 4-5 walls (the normal hollow with drywall on each side), to a 360. Total distance of ~35 ft max and I'd like the best connection I can possibly get, because I don't wanna have to run another 100ft cat6 thru the basement. I'd like something a lot different that my old router, in the sense that it won't randomly lose connection, or better yet, just stop working all together, because I had Linksys WRT54G V5 .

 

[jivetrky]

The Linksys WRT54GL is great...I get great signal with it, several hundred feet away even. I don't have many walls or other things to go through, but it works great! THe v5 is kinda the black sheep of the family with the WRT54g's ...the Gl is great....even v1-4 of the NON L's are good with modded firmware.


I was just thinking....if it's just the antenna that snapped. Those are replaceable. They just screw on. You could even buy a higher gain antenna and increase your range from what it was before.

 

[Uqdroma]

Imho, I think all the brands have done a great job with their WiFi routers. If you stick with Linksys, Netgear, Belkin, etc...you'll be happy. I'd say get whichever one has the best sale price Friday. Or matching the WiFi adapter's brand is always a safe bet.

 

[Aman]

What's a no brainer. Linksys WRT54GL. It has 4 ports on the back. The wireless is about 750ft and I use my DS, PSP and soon PS3 and I can take it to my neighboor's house and it still works great.

 

[N1NJA]

I was just thinking....if it's just the antenna that snapped. Those are replaceable. They just screw on. You could even buy a higher gain antenna and increase your range from what it was before.

The little pin that the antenna screws onto got snapped off. I'm not sure how but now you can push the pieces together because they still fit, but it just falls off a few minutes later. Somehow I still have 40% connection where the 360 is, when the router is under a desk with 1 antenna. Well, it says 40% but it doesn't load any pages.

 

[jivetrky]

ahh ok...so it's not just the antenna, it's the connector? Yeah, then you'd probably need to replace it.

What Uqdroma said is probably true...any of the major brands out there would probably be fine. But I can only speak for 2 older Netgear routers and then my Linsys WRT54GL ...and the Linksys is FAAR better. The range is excellent, the packet management seems excellent (I can download and seed 3 torrents at the same time, at full down speed and 50k out of 65k upload, and still browse the internet just fine. With the other routers I've had I could only do that with 1 torrent, any more would cause pages to timeout or load slowly or incomplete.