Looking for the best wireless Linksys Router for my new FIOS connection.

I just got a fiber optic connection to the internet, and as usual
verizon give out the cheapest piece of crap router that they possible
can (D-link 604) and if that's not enough they are using custom
firmware that allows them to remote into my network. Am I going to
stand by and let them do this? I think not

Because I have had success with Linksys Products in the past, I would
like to pick up a new wireless Linksys router. My question is which one
would be the best.

I have been looking at the
WRT55AG ver2
WRT54G ver5

Are there any other models I should consider?
I wanted to know what would be the best wireless. I am not an idiot to
networking only wireless networking.

"Matthew" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>I just got a fiber optic connection to the internet, and as usual
>verizon give out the cheapest piece of crap router that they possible
>can (D-link 604) and if that's not enough they are using custom
>firmware that allows them to remote into my network. Am I going to
>stand by and let them do this? I think not

Been there, done that, ended up with the FIOS DI-624 router that
Verizon gave me in the first place. Every other SOHO router I tried
had problems with sustained traffic and/or BitTorrent traffic.

See the previous thread about Azereous crashing routers, it may be
possible to tune your client to avoid the problem.

[Note that you want a 10/100 WAN interface if you have 15M or 30M
FIOS, as a 10BaseT connection won't keep up...]

Do you know what model and version you were using? Looking at the
Linksys site, the bittorrent issue was solved with the Firmware 1.00.6
update (this is for WRT54G ver5)

http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satel...&ssbinary=true

You might want to steer clear of the v5 as it doen't run Linux-based
f/w and as such, can not be upgraded with 3rd party f/w that adds more
features (e.g. WDS).

Yeah I saw that on another site. So far it looks like the Best of the
Best was WRT54GS v3 It came with a whopping 16meg rom and 32meg ram
verses v5 2/8 I don't know it I would update it with non standard
firmware but there is something that like about having the ability to
do it even if I choose not to.

Thanks
-Matt-

"Matthew" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>Do you know what model and version you were using? Looking at the
>Linksys site, the bittorrent issue was solved with the Firmware 1.00.6
>update (this is for WRT54G ver5)

Yeah, it was long before V5 came out. They seem to still be actively
{supporting,bug-fixing} the V5 routers, but AFAICT they've stopped
adding {features,bug-fixes} to the older hardware revisions.

And I tried about a half-dozen brands, including wired and wireless
routers, and they all fell over after less than 24 hours. Google news
probably has it somewhere...