What is it? (And brand and model)

Just a poll about how stable newer consumer grade routers are.

 

I had a Netgear RP 614, but it became unstable a few months back.
I had bought it back around 2000.

I an now running a Linksys one.
I ran one for a few weeks I got from a forum member, but his was hard coded to his telephone # with Vonage.
I am now on Vonage as well, and have a new one from them.
http://www.vonage.com/products_linksys.php

It was free except for shipping.
The router has two phone ports for use with Vonage.

In the future I will replace this with the wireless model.

So far this has been a great router, and I see no interrupts like I did with the Netgear one.
I am now a Linksys convert.
They are also now owned by Cisco, a very large router group.

 

its been up and running for months, no problems. Only time i had to restart it was when I fooled with the settings. Its a dlink DI-624 wireless router

 

Netopia wireless router, stays up for months at a time. It's on a UPS so the outages we have don't get it & the only time it's needed a reboot was after making changes to the config.

 

Let's see some screenshots of those months

Especially Linksys, from what I've seen they take at most 1-2 weeks on average before hanging.

 

Have not had to reboot mine yet, or are talking about the wireless ones only?

 

Any type really. Linksys seems have software problems with ports on wired router/switch combos. Some ports would just stop working, while others still would. Reboot fixes it. This observation is based on a dozen+ different Linksys products from 2002+.

 

Hey Corey, your reviews of that NP614 persuaded me. I got the v2 and it's been flawless, firmware upgrades are easy, reboot has taken care of an infrequent glitch. I shouldn't write this, the last time I was bragging about my Trinitron monitor that flamed out soon after.

 

shows 27 days, we had an issue with dropped packets then & I tried a restart, but that wasn't the problem. Cable here is just bad.

 

It may be different now that Cisco has taken over, at least that is what I have heard.
This new router I am running, I like it much better than the Netgear I use to have hooked up.
I like the looks of the Netgear better, but looks do not always make the router.

Yeah, I have V1 Bob, but with all the updates.
I did some Googling, and it appears there are some complaints on the 614 model doing this.

Netgear makes the better metal blue box ones, but their interface did not make it easy to open up ports for gaming like the 614 did.
This new Linksys one I have is even easier to open up ports for port forwarding to set up hosting online games.

 

Running a Dlink D-604 wired router at my place running aDSL, only gone down twice so far.. had it for about a year and a half.

**Should note though, that this router is a tad more stable then the average D-604.. ran it in Toronto on Roger's Cable, and went down about once every 2 months, my roommate bought the same model, his went down about once a week. **

Really not the router's fault, its more about line stability, in toronto my aunt has a cable and a dsl line to her house (shes paranoid about down time) and shes had 3 routers in there, all of which constantly drop (once a week, up to 10 times a day). Had both companies in numerous times to repair everything, still the same. Different modems, etc... its all been thought of. She's used linksys, hawking, dlink, netgear, etc..

I setup a DLink D-624 at a friends, using the same ISP as me, about 2 blocks away, so.. similar quality of lines, and his has dropped once already (been up about 4 days).

I got another friend running a netgear of some sort, hasn't dropped once yet.. been a good 3-4 months. (running cable)

At my place of work, we are in a 'fringe' zone for aDSL and cable won't serve us, so we originally setup a Linksys, then an SMC, then a D-Link, all of which went down a good 5 times a week, finally a co-worker setup a linux box using smoothwall. Went down about once a month (huge improvement, no?) Recently we let him go, he hacked us.. and said there was nothing I could do about it, ripped out his shotty firewall (smoothwall.org was hacked around the same time, ) and replaced it with Astaro Security for Linux V5, runs on a basic system, a P2 with 8gb harddrive and 64mb will do it (needs the hdd space for the logs, never really uses all of it, but it demands you have it to install) Regularily its a $15,000+ firewall system, but they give out free user licenses which have an unlimited expiration time, 'allowing' up to 10 hosts, although.. they dont really enforce it considering we are running 150, and its recording it at about 400.. it just sends nasty automated emails to ya. *turns that off*... anyway.. it works great, only gone down 2 times in the last 4 months.. so a 2x improvement over the smoothwall.

5 times a week, to 1 time every 2 months.. makes me much less of an irritated administrator.

 

That's what I'm trying to replace, a heavy metal blue box Netgear from the last century. As of this writing it's been up 2097 hours, or almost 3 months, with 225 million packets forwarded. Has command line and menu interfaces, serial cable port, access lists, SNMP, no silly switch built in. Pure function.

Problem is it only has power to forward about 3 mbit/s, and this become the bottleneck.

 

its ashame this wasnt a thread three days ago.....I have my wireless wrt54g linksys up for about 8 months....i JUST reset after updating the firmware, and switching from WEP to WPA.....oh well, its extremely stable, and reliable.....I havent had any problems with it other then the fact I have to turn off encryption to add my desktop too it after a format, but how often do you format?...and I dont even really think this is a problem....

 

Ditto

 

Hmmm, I've never heard of Linksys having those problems. Must've gotten lucky I guess.

My WRT54G v1 has never had issues, only had to unplug it to rearrange my office, and a firmware update for xbox live. Besides that, it goes fine for months on end.

Same results with my old BEFSR41, and the 15+ I've installed for customers over the past couple of years. Setting up new ISP info might require a reboot, but not again after that...

 

Corey,

You havent gone wireless yet?

 

Not yet.
Do I have to order the one you have from Vonage?
I do not think most places carry the ones with the telco inputs on them.

Also if I do get one like yours, do you call up Vonage and give them the MAC # so they can clone it to my Vonage telco #?

 

Yes, give the address to the technician @ Vonage. Also tell the tech to get rid of the other addresses you have used. That will eliminate extra headaches down the road.

 

I have a linksys wireless router and it has been on for at least 6 months with no problems...