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[carlosgee]

chrissy presents needs purchasing am looking at Buffalo wireless cable 125mps router and USB receiver - Littlewoods

however not sure if this is suitable for me am on virgin cable. basically want normal pc connected to net as usual then the usb dongle in laptop so we can both be on net at same time. any good?

[Liverpool2008]

Get a Belikin from PC world Or Staples

Netgear WNR2000 Wireless N Router - Buy cheap Netgear DSL wireless routers at PC World

Staples.co.uk Your business partner for Office Supplies, furniture and technology.

both good products I use the one from staples .. Plug & Play ...

[carlosgee]

was getting out of lil woods as thats my folks catalogue - would the 1 i chose do the job

[Liverpool2008]

It will do if you need the USB

[l3ullets]

I have never used Buffalo routers before so cant recommend but here is the model no. of the one you are looking at getting.

Model number WHR-G125

Its selling at argos for £39.99 and has good reviews there.

Catalouge no. 6754848.

Best of luck.

[carlosgee]

cheers guys much appreciated

[fruitman69]

Get a Belikin from PC world Or Staples

Netgear WNR2000 Wireless N Router - Buy cheap Netgear DSL wireless routers at PC World

Staples.co.uk Your business partner for Office Supplies, furniture and technology.

both good products I use the one from staples .. Plug & Play ...

Dont get a Belkin ! there crap !

NETGEAR is your friend ! 108 Mbps is well nippy easy to set up and lock wifi wise and generally very reliable.

[todd1970]

Just thought id hijack this thread rather than create a new one.

Having some probs updating the firmware for my new router that i got the other day.

Its a Netgear WRG614v9 and everytime i go to update it comes up "Firmware upgrade failed. Please check your file."

Thing is when its dowloaded to my desktop its a ww.chk (recovered file fragments) file ? Im sure the last time i updated my firmware for my old Netgear router it was a .bin file ? Looked like a small silver disc ?

Any ideas would be appreciated guys.

[Matty.N]

Dont get a Belkin ! there crap !

NETGEAR is your friend ! 108 Mbps is well nippy easy to set up and lock wifi wise and generally very reliable.

no no no

netgear are terrible

the routers are retarded

belkin are good, ive had my belkin router 3 years now & sometimes its on for 2 days straight, no problems with it

[cliffc]

no no no

netgear are terrible

the routers are retarded

belkin are good, ive had my belkin router 3 years now & sometimes its on for 2 days straight, no problems with it

Sorry eminemster i have to dissagree i have a netgear router and it runs 24/7 as the repro is on 24/7 ish i have been running this router like that for over 6 months now and other than the 2 power outages in our area when the local villans decide that thay want to nick some copper wire out of the local substation , its ran with no issues at all. Before that i had an unbranded one i got off e-bay for 14 quid and that ran for 2 years and it was the wireless side that was acting up on that.

cliff C

[stanmarsh14]

I'm with cliffc on this.... Had way too many issues with cheep Belkin crap and their rebranded Micra Digital (Used to get these in Tesco's) junk to trust them ever again

GF's mum being the worst to suffer at the hands of Belkin, to which I managed to fix with a spare 3com unit I had.

As for myself, after my old 3com unit failed, I went with a Netgear WGT624 v3, and this has even out peformed my old 3com jobby.

Deffo would go with Netgear again, or BT Voyager as a close second.

[todd1970]

Yeah never had any bother with my Netgear router (apart from this one acting like a bender) although as DAD says if its the only make you've ever had you dont know any better.

[Deano]

My TalkTalk router is a Huawei echolife HG520B. Does the job. Cant say any more than its white and pretty with flashing lights and doubles up as a photo frame lol.

[Matty.N]

My TalkTalk router is a Huawei echolife HG520B. Does the job. Cant say any more than its white and pretty with flashing lights and doubles up as a photo frame lol.

Sounds great

the router o2 give is a Thomson TG585v7

its white but dull with flashy lights

[fruitman69]

& sometimes its on for 2 days straight, no problems with it

That made me laugh 2 days !! at last count mines been on for 264 days straight and that was only off as the electrian had to switch the downstairs power off ....

Mine is on 24 / 7 / 365

pic only says 21 days but thats the last time i needed to reboot my PC

thats XP for ya

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[Matty.N]

That made me laugh 2 days !! at last count mines been on for 264 days straight and that was only off as the electrian had to switch the downstairs power off ....

Mine is on 24 / 7 / 365

pic only says 21 days but thats the last time i needed to reboot my PC

thats XP for ya

wow

my o2 router is shite then

it was on for 2 days & then it died =/

but ive never kept my belkin router on for more than 2 days as ive no need for it to be on all the time