Fuck Asus

[Tessian]

I refuse to buy another Asus product. In the past they've been the only manufacturer to give me a lemon of a motherboard... and now this damned router of mine (WL-500W that I bought back in March) keeps dying on me. Today was the 2nd time in a week that the router just DIED; literally stopped working and once I would power cycle it it wouldn't even TRY to boot up; only the LAN lights would come up and that was it. I've created support requests and an RMA request from Asus almost a week ago now and NO word from them; fucking terrible customer service. On Friday it randomly came back to life on me and I was using it until tonight when it died on me AGAIN; same exact issue. Fuck Asus.

So now that Asus can kiss my ass, I am going to look into getting a new router from a dependable company. I've liked Linksys in the past (hell fo ra time I was using a 6 year old 8-port Linksys router when this one died) which I'm looking into, but does anyone have any specific models of routers they've come to love? I would really like to continue using DD-WRT as well.

[Imakeholesinu]

There is a version of my router by NetgearWGR614L that supports open source routing firmware. May want to look into that. I love my router.

http://www.amazon.com/Netgear-WGR614L-S ... B0013F6HK8

Mine isn't the L.

[Tessian]

There is a version of my router by NetgearWGR614L that supports open source routing firmware. May want to look into that. I love my router.

http://www.amazon.com/Netgear-WGR614L-S ... B0013F6HK8

Mine isn't the L.

My backup router that I'm currently using is the Netgear WGR614 v6. It's saved my ass thus far... but I dunno if I like it enough to buy another version (and of course only the v8 is supported by DD-WRT)

[Zeus]

Asus is the new Compaq, man

[SineSwiper]

I have the same router, but I have found posts on DD-WRT to the effect that DD-WRT is flakey on that router. Not sure if it's the router's fault or DD-WRT, but I've had it happen myself with powercycling my router and not coming up again. Sometimes it would take a few cycles and suddenly it was pingable again.

It's a shame because it's hard to find a router with enough good hardware on it (USB ports, multiple antennas, good RAM/flash). Buffalo makes good ones, but they are now banned in the US. (Really dumb lawsuit, too.)

[Tessian]

I think I want to pick up this but it's still a bit pricey. Amazon has it for less but out of stock...

Linksys WRT610N

[SineSwiper]

Well, this is the same company that did the bait-and-switch with a router that was cheap, had pretty good hardware, and a Linux core to a router that had less RAM/flash, no Linux core, and was called the same model with a "better" revision.

[Tessian]

I have the same router, but I have found posts on DD-WRT to the effect that DD-WRT is flakey on that router. Not sure if it's the router's fault or DD-WRT, but I've had it happen myself with powercycling my router and not coming up again. Sometimes it would take a few cycles and suddenly it was pingable again.

I've powercycled it MANY MANY times in a row... it just doesn't boot. I don't think it's DD-WRT's fault, since I can't even get into Recovery mode right now which DD-WRT shouldn't be able to stop.

And yeah, the WRT54G thing was pretty shady, but at least even those are more reliable than this Asus. I have Linksys wired routers almost a decade old that still work great.