Router suitable for a small home network
"John Gordon Ollason" <john-vtmTuu8IIOWEBxnelpYi71pr/1R2p/[email protected]>
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I have a small domestic network comprising my linux box (wired), my wife's PC (wireless), an Iyonix (a computer that nobody has ever heard of) (wired), the tv (wired) a RaspberryPi (wired), and a network printer (wireless). I am connecting to a bog-standard dsl broadband ISP. On Thursday last at 0640 we had an almost directly overhead stroke of lightning: flash, bang, and the lights went out. We were lucky: the only casualty was the router; a neighbour lost all of his electronic equipment. I went to town to the only computerish shop and bought the only replacement router that they stock TP-Link TD-W8961ND and I am not very impressed with it. The web-interface is extremely slow and hangs a lot. The router seems to be rather sensitive to temperature and has needed to be restarted after only about 8 hours of service, and with the feeble web interface, that took about 20 minutes. In fact the web-interface has died altogether now so I can't reconfigure it or do a soft reboot, but at least it's talking to me. So off I went to PCWorld was sold a Netgear D6200, get it home and discovered that it can't be configured by an ethernet connexion: it has to be configured wirelessly. So I configured it and it was easy to get my wife's PC online. Then I tried plugging in the ethernet connectors. Nothing, Downloaded the manual from Netgear: nothing helpful. Fiddled about with the connectors and got two out four connected but only for a short while (the sockets have a nasty floppy feel about them). So it's going back to PCWorld tomorrow. So can anybody recommend a decent no-frills, solid router with at least four ethernet sockets and wifi that can be reliably configured from a web-interface? Thanks in advance.