Okay, some stuff that was boiled down from the Internet on the issues of home networking with consumer-grade routers.
1. Where possible, separate your modem (ADSL/cable) from your router. This is so that a single hardware failure will not hurt you too much (if your modem hangs, your network is still intact, and if your router hangs, you can still directly connect to the Internet.
1a. The follow-on from that, of course, is to set your modem to bridge mode, allowing your router to do the login to the Internet.
2. Consider well the difference between routers in relation to their processing core (chipset), EEPROM and RAM capacities. The more of the latter, the longer the time between reboots.
3. Make sure if you run wireless, your router supports at least WPA/PSK, and no namby-pamby 8-10 characters either. While practically speaking your connection is cryptographically fairly secure on just 10-15 character passphrases, it does not mean more is worse.
4. Open sourced firmware. Vista/future OS compatibility. These may be some of the lateral issues you might not think about when purchasing such routers - but do.
Anybody who's into P2P will want to make sure that the router can handle it, and that there is only one router in the networking link between the P2P PC and the Internet access. The DIR-300 seems to be running fairly well for now.
1. Where possible, separate your modem (ADSL/cable) from your router. This is so that a single hardware failure will not hurt you too much (if your modem hangs, your network is still intact, and if your router hangs, you can still directly connect to the Internet.
1a. The follow-on from that, of course, is to set your modem to bridge mode, allowing your router to do the login to the Internet.
2. Consider well the difference between routers in relation to their processing core (chipset), EEPROM and RAM capacities. The more of the latter, the longer the time between reboots.
3. Make sure if you run wireless, your router supports at least WPA/PSK, and no namby-pamby 8-10 characters either. While practically speaking your connection is cryptographically fairly secure on just 10-15 character passphrases, it does not mean more is worse.
4. Open sourced firmware. Vista/future OS compatibility. These may be some of the lateral issues you might not think about when purchasing such routers - but do.
Anybody who's into P2P will want to make sure that the router can handle it, and that there is only one router in the networking link between the P2P PC and the Internet access. The DIR-300 seems to be running fairly well for now.
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