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« on: September 16, 2008, 05:01:53 PM » |
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Is soo nice. Our 10 year old hub finally crapped out so we replaced it with an HP Procurve 1400-8G. Everything runs smoother, no more storms, and a 40mb file transfers over the lan in about 2 seconds on old CAT5 cable. I'd be stoked to see what 5e or 6 could do.
If you haven't done it and regularly transfer large files over your network, it's definitely worth it.
Streaming 1080P here I come!
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« Reply #1 on: September 16, 2008, 05:12:58 PM » |
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I should probably get one. I'm getting a little bit of skippy playback playing .mkv files. I'm not yet sure if it's a limitation of CIFS, or the network itself.
I did install DD-WRT on my router, but I've had problems with that in the past. Maybe I'll put Tomato back on there.
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« Reply #2 on: September 16, 2008, 05:14:51 PM » |
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Is soo nice. Our 10 year old hub finally crapped out so we replaced it with an HP Procurve 1400-8G. Everything runs smoother, no more storms, and a 40mb file transfers over the lan in about 2 seconds on old CAT5 cable. I'd be stoked to see what 5e or 6 could do.
If you haven't done it and regularly transfer large files over your network, it's definitely worth it.
Streaming 1080P here I come!
Nice. I'm still holding out for a Wireless N (final, not one of these Draft-N routers) with 4 Gigabit Ethernet ports. That would be awesome. Or I might just go out to a cool local store we have and pick up a 8-Port switch, and attach my current router to it. Currently I have a DD-WRT Mega enabled WRT54GS v1.1 (32MB/8MB) and it runs awesome anyway. And I also have a DD-WRT enabled (Client Bridge mode for my 360) WRT54G v6. |
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« Last Edit: September 16, 2008, 05:16:30 PM by logicaL! »
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jake
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« Reply #3 on: September 16, 2008, 05:16:48 PM » |
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The 802.11n hardware has been finalized. A BIOS update is all that will be required to bring a draft n router to the final state.
If you don't like flashing BIOS, I could understand. Otherwise it's kind of a waste to wait, unless that's not the only reason you're waiting.
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Jedakiah
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« Reply #4 on: September 16, 2008, 05:20:25 PM » |
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The 802.11n hardware has been finalized. A BIOS update is all that will be required to bring a draft n router to the final state.
If you don't like flashing BIOS, I could understand. Otherwise it's kind of a waste to wait, unless that's not the only reason you're waiting.
Yeah. I have been running a Draft N for a while now. So far it's a lot of hype. There are faster transfer speeds but not not the 3-6x speeds I read about. However, the range of this is not hype. I get an excellent signal everywhere in my noise infested house. |
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« Reply #5 on: September 16, 2008, 05:22:48 PM » |
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The 802.11n hardware has been finalized. A BIOS update is all that will be required to bring a draft n router to the final state.
If you don't like flashing BIOS, I could understand. Otherwise it's kind of a waste to wait, unless that's not the only reason you're waiting.
I have two DD-WRT routers, I'm not afraid to flash EEPROM.  I'm a bit leery not because they aren't fully hardware capable, its the fact that I might get left out if I pick one that doesn't get that update. Or if the final-N hardware doesn't work at full speed with my Draft-N router. |
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Jedakiah
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« Reply #6 on: September 16, 2008, 05:24:53 PM » |
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Or if the final-N hardware doesn't work at full speed with my Draft-N router.
The only way that will happen is if you don't get the update. |
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« Reply #7 on: September 16, 2008, 05:32:02 PM » |
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Or if the final-N hardware doesn't work at full speed with my Draft-N router.
The only way that will happen is if you don't get the update. That is what scares me. I'm happy for now with my DD-WRT (and Afterburner supported) WRT54GS. It has more RAM than most routers (32), and is extremely stable. Now if only my connection was as good.  Personally I will most likely get the Belkin N1 Vision, or the N-based successor to the Asus WL500G Premium when I do upgrade. |
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Jedakiah
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« Reply #8 on: September 16, 2008, 07:15:02 PM » |
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« Reply #9 on: September 16, 2008, 07:27:24 PM » |
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Asus WL500G Premium when I do upgrade.
I bought one of those for a friend. All I can say is don't install PacketProtector on it. That OS blows. Yeah, although DD-WRT on one of those would be ftw. |
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« Reply #10 on: September 16, 2008, 07:47:16 PM » |
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I have a WRT54G v.3. Every time I've put DD-WRT (multiple versions) on it, I've had little problems here and there.
Tomato, however, gives me no problems, while having enough of a feature set to keep my happy.
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« Reply #11 on: September 16, 2008, 07:58:41 PM » |
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I have a WRT54G v.3. Every time I've put DD-WRT (multiple versions) on it, I've had little problems here and there.
Tomato, however, gives me no problems, while having enough of a feature set to keep my happy.
That's the beauty of the Broadcom-based routers out there. If you don't like one, or its unstable you can just pick one of the others. Although DD-WRT has worked for both routers I have (sans my Microsoft MN-700, which is basically a WL500G since I am to lazy to JTAG it). Someday I'll try one of the others (Tomato, Open/X-WRT etc) |
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Jedakiah
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« Reply #12 on: September 16, 2008, 08:09:07 PM » |
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I was sitting there debating OpenWRT on my 350n a few days back. But I finally just manned up and built a Smoothwall box. I will probably never go back. I still use the 350 as my wireless AP, and I don't need custom firmware for that. Although I already had DD-WRT on it so why change?
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