Which one would you buy?

Quick question for all....I have a Lynksys wireless router and am
running 3 ports wired in and 3 wireless connections. But, with certain
apps, particularly some games, the wireless connections are getting
interrupted alot. Thinking the router just can't keep up and
considering getting a newer one - which one would you buy for a home
that could handle this set up? Thanks in advance!


nilsanderson@comcast.net

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> Quick question for all....I have a Lynksys wireless router and am
> running 3 ports wired in and 3 wireless connections. But, with certain
> apps, particularly some games, the wireless connections are getting
> interrupted alot. Thinking the router just can't keep up and
> considering getting a newer one - which one would you buy for a home
> that could handle this set up? Thanks in advance!

This might not be a router problem, but congestion and contention of the
six connections in the limited upload speed of your broadband. When the
wireless fails what kind of activity is being requested from all six
connections? P2P, bittorrent, some gaming can all consume the upload
pipe, making all other connections appeat to be slow or failed. Your
comcast upload is a minimum of 384Kbits/second and that isn't much if
there is a lot of demand from one or more of the router clients.

Q

Definitely appreciate the advice. Should have pointed out this is all
for a LAN and staying within the local network, not going out onto
the net. Can understand it if there was significant congestion with 6
folks all trying to get out at once but this is just with 6
connections using the router to make local connections. Thanks!

On Wed, 6 Jul 2005 08:15:58 -0600, "Quaoar" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
>> Quick question for all....I have a Lynksys wireless router and am
>> running 3 ports wired in and 3 wireless connections. But, with certain
>> apps, particularly some games, the wireless connections are getting
>> interrupted alot. Thinking the router just can't keep up and
>> considering getting a newer one - which one would you buy for a home
>> that could handle this set up? Thanks in advance!
>
>This might not be a router problem, but congestion and contention of the
>six connections in the limited upload speed of your broadband. When the
>wireless fails what kind of activity is being requested from all six
>connections? P2P, bittorrent, some gaming can all consume the upload
>pipe, making all other connections appeat to be slow or failed. Your
>comcast upload is a minimum of 384Kbits/second and that isn't much if
>there is a lot of demand from one or more of the router clients.
>
>Q
>