Looking at purchasing a router to go with NTL broadband connect.

Which one should i go for and do i go for wireless card or usb adaptor?

Prefer to pay upto £100 for router and adaptor and latest spec would be nice.

Whats the differnence between pre-n etc?

Its for my pc which i built around 2years ago.

Pre-n isn't worth it IMHO as you will notice little benifit from it unless your neighbours don't have wireless.

Draytek and Xyzel make some nice ones, but i think they are just over the £100 mark.

Get a wireless card that isn't USB IMHO. You can often buy PCI cards that are just the PCMCIA card and a PCI adapter, which would mean you could usae the card in a laptop if you ever wanted to by pulling it out from the PC card.

HTH

I've got a Netgear wireless router hooked up to my NTL Cable modem, works fine for me and I get very little in the way with problems with it.

Another vote for Zyxel - my router has been faultless in the 2+ years it's been up and running

Chris

Linksys WRT54G here, has needed the odd reboot, but not as many as my ntl set-top-box!

i got the linksys never had a problem with it the netgear's are good cheaper than the others try pc world or maplins for special offers i.e. router and card bundle

Just make sure what ever one you get it can provide a false MAC address to trick the modem (modem remembers MAC address of PC used to configure it). I think mines a netgear.

I have quite an old Belkin, and to be honest wouldn't reccommend it. I've had countless problems and one replacement.

Think my next one will be a Netgear.

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I agree about the Belkins but Netgear is even worse IMO. I had 1 pack in on me and 2 in work too. They look the part but that's about it and the WIFI range is truly abismal even in comparison with my Belkin.

Got an Asus here. Can't argue with £50 for a 4 port wireless g router with FTP and print serving via USB built in. My five year-old Netgear was really good but dunno if the bean counting fairies have been at the current range.

PC World tend to sell the Netgear with a USB adapter on special offer for

Anything USB when it comes to modems and networking sesms to be a lot more likely to have problems than using PCI cards and wired cat5E networking cables IMO.

I have a Belkin Pre-N router, the Belkin firmware isnt that great and is quiet limited and also seemed to loose the wireless quiet often. However the one we have here is basically a Linksys WRT54GX in a different case and Belkin badged with belkins own firmware.

A quick search on the net, some hex editing and firmware flashing the router is now running the WRT54GX firmware, is much more stable and has a lot more features.

Range wise, well I can still get a wireless signal down the road at the bus stop with my laptop. Indoors standard 802.11G didnt work to well, but Pre-N works perfectly. To get the best from Pre-N you need Pre-N cards to, although standard 802.11G cards also work they had the range problem of 802.11G.

Anything USB when it comes to modems and networking sesms to be a lot more likely to have problems than using PCI cards and wired cat5E networking cables IMO.

Yeah I ended up running cable between the PCs and using the same router, generally works fine, get the odd freeze when transferring big files but I think that is more to do with the ancient cobbled together hardware I call my HTPC

Just make sure what ever one you get it can provide a false MAC address to trick the modem (modem remembers MAC address of PC used to configure it). I think mines a netgear.

Had a belkin 54g, it broke. Got a belkin 125 blah blah. Its starting to bugger again. Have set up many wifi networks and routers and have to say the Belkins UI is the easiest to use but with reliability being such an issue I would go for a Netgear as they are the next best IMHO. However I know for certain that the belkin has an ability to clone the computers mac to fool ntl

This is going to confuse........had two netgear ones absolute rubbish, kept dropping the network or the broadband or all of it ....second one just went pop after a while so now have a Belkin ....easy to set up and so far very reliable

My two pennies worth.

Stear clear of netgear routers. As part of my work I have had to install many of these in peoples homes. All with the exact same configuration. You wouldnt believe the amount of re-visits we have to do, constantly going back to swap the buggers out as they are the flakiest routers I have seen. I think you have as much chance of winning the lottery as you do getting a decent one without problems.

I have been using a linksys wrt54g and have had no issues with it in the 3 1/2years I have had it. They do however lock up when using torrent downloads for a substantial period. It's due to the way it caches it connections. It doesnt purge the cache qui8ck enough to deal with the large amounts of connections caused by torrents. A quick search on the net and a firmware download later it's all fixed.

Of course thats only going to affect you if you use torrents constantly. Which I doubt you do.