[Cialug] Noob needs help.

[Jeff Chapin]

That's the *first* thing I look at when looking at routers. Having gone
dd-wrt, I *cannot* go back.


David Champion wrote:
> Matthew Nuzum wrote:
>   
>> On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Rob Miller<robarooney at gmail.com> wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> Thanks again to Preston, Larry, and Jerry for answering my question.  Does
>>> anyone have a cable modem with wireless so I can replace the modem we got
>>> from Mediacom?  My daughter has my Motorola modem and is using it.  Rob
>>>     
>>>       
>> Go to best buy or walmart and buy a router. They cost as little as $50
>> and you will just plug your cable modem into the router (there's a
>> special port on the router specifically for this).
>>
>> For simple needs a cheap router is fine. If you do voice over IP or
>> play high performance online games or file sharing with bittorrent (or
>> etc) you will want to spend a little more (say around $100) to get a
>> nicer router that can handle heavy traffic.
>>
>> Unlike DSL it is not common to buy a cable modem for yourself. You
>> will use the one provided by Mediacom.
>>
>>   
>>     
> If I were buying a router, I'd make sure it supports DD-WRT - it's a 
> great alternative router firmware that lets you do a lot of neat stuff 
> you can't do most routers out of the box.
>
> http://www.dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv3/dd-wrt/hardware.html
>
> -dc
>
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