Howdy all you techy type people out there
I've really got back into some self development and using my home network a lot more again. At any one time I can be streaming music from my NAS, syncronising WSUS & ePO, using ISOs across the network, running XBOX Live and accessing computers (both physical and virtual) using VNC and various consoles. This seems to have the effect of bombing out my wireless router and overloading my 8 port switch.
So basically I'm after a decent backbone switch and a decent wireless point that won't cost the earth. Gigabit would be nice if not too much and not overly fussed about N wireless, G is plenty for me at the moment.
So, any suggestions?
Cheers
Netgear used to do a pretty good wireless access point - Don't know if that would be any use to you?
I've got a netgear.
I would go N personally. Apart from it being a bit more future proof, it also allows twice as much bandwidth as a G which is 54Mb/s.
If you are just using it to access the internet then a G will outperform the bandwidth of most internet connections, but if you are employing a local network as well the router has to deal with the internal traffic as well as the internet.
You can run G appliances on an N router, so you wouldn't necessarily have to upgrade your computers.
Ha ha
Just checked mine and it is a D-Link DSL-2740b.
I forgot that I ditched the Netgear when I upgraded to N.
Any particular model you'd recommend?
I know their older stuff was not particularly reliable and had quite a few issues but then I'm going on Enterprise stuff as not really used their home bits
Thanks Clive. Do you mind me asking which one you've got?
It's definitely the internal traffic that's causing mine to fall over, 4MB/s internet isn't quite up to the task yet