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What router should i get?

  • 01-10-2010 3:29pm
    #1
    teddy b123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 399 ✭✭


    Basically, i recently moved into student accomodation, my 2 flatmates and i paid 70 euro each for broadband for the year and we were each given an ethernet port in our bedrooms, is it possible to connect a router to one of those ports so that we can have wifi in the flat? if so what type would it be? im guessing a cable one?
    it would be nice if i could buy it today so a brick and mortar shop in cork city would be handy and a cheap one would also be nice

    The perfect router would have support for
    Wireless N and b/g
    DD-WRT firmware
    and thats about it really

    Thanks in advance


Comments

  • #2
    Jehuty42
    Closed Accounts Posts: 560 ✭✭✭Jehuty42


    Why would it possibly be a cable modem? You say you have ethernet ports, so you would get a normal ethernet router. Who is your ISP?


  • #3
    bhickey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,340 ✭✭✭bhickey


    A Buffalo WHR-HP-G00N will do what you want but I don't know if you can get it in any particular shop. You'll probably pay double anyway for the equivalent in a shop.


  • #4
    teddy b123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 399 ✭✭teddy b123


    The router thats in the appartment complex is a Prestige 660RU-T1 with imagine :( as the isp, we have no access to it, its in a locked cupboard somewhere

    and i was talking about a cable router such as:

    Home_Network_CE_09B.ccom

    not a cable modem



    Oh and the reason i was looking at getting it from a shop is because id have to get it delivered to the appartment complex (not going home for some time) and there is no reception here and i highly doubt itll fit in the post box


  • #5
    bhickey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,340 ✭✭✭bhickey


    teddy b123 wrote: »
    Oh and the reason i was looking at getting it from a shop is because id have to get it delivered to the appartment complex (not going home for some time) and there is no reception here and i highly doubt itll fit in the post box

    Well then you'll have to go to the shop(s), note the make/model numbers of the routers that you like and then check them all here to see if they support DD-WRT.


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