Originally Posted by DazS1Turbo
Originally Posted by UnseenMenace
I would personally suggest Linksys as this is built by the same company which build the industry standard Cisco routers.
A lot of the Linksys routers run Linux firmwear and as such can be hacked about to improve the performance and security.
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...1934567,00.asp
Linksys are the best residential routers around imho and can easily be tweaked for unbeatable performance and features for the price
Most of your standard Netgear's all run linux firmware
Hacked into my sky one to update the firmwear from the drivl sky put on them
Ive found in the past Linksys hardware to be a bit unreliable - especially their wireless sticks
A firmware updare is not a hack, its a firmwear upgrade.. How did your firmwear upgrade extend the capabilitys of the router from what Netgear state ?
The Netgear routers do not have enough headroom for the feature set to be extended in general. Im currently running the Netgear router as Im trying to fix the security issues which allow unauthorized root access on many of the products.
http://securityvulns.com/docs6618.html
The reality are they are reasonable home routers with security issues on some of the range, however for the same price you can get a Linksys router than can be turnt into a enterprise-level powerhouse
http://www.computerworld.com/action/...icleId=9016841
Other considerations are that Netgear customer support is based in India and as such the opportunity of getting someone who does not speak the same first lanaguage as yourself is high