Salut à tous, I need your advices! My home network is about to switch to wireless! So what I need is a robust router able to sustain lots of traffic . We have 5 computers at home and many of them are running concurrently P2P apps. The network is mixed PCs and Macs, but usually the router is no problem for that. The router has to be 802.11g and 4 ethernet ports.

Here are some possibilities found @ futureshop.ca
802.11G WGR614 Netgear
802.11g US Robotics
802.11b/g WGT624 Netgear
Broadband wireless router Linksys with speedbooster

What are your experiences with those?
I'll look at comparisons if I can find ones on other web sites.

Merci

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MÀJ: I now think I'll take a linksys. However, I can't decide yet which of those two models I should use:
1)Wireless-G Broadband Router 120$ CAN
2) Wireless-G Broadband Router with SpeedBooster 150$ CAN

The second one claims an increase as much as 35% in network speed with the SpeedBooster technology. That's were it begins to be unclear, what are they talking about? Latency or lan speed?. If it is latency, I'll choose this one. Lan speed is not really important for me.

Advice??
Merci

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Well the speedbooster helps with 35% faster throughput over the 54Mbps, if you have a wireless card with speedbooster, that is. Other advantages is that this model has twice the ram and rom sizes over the normal version. So that version should be better suited for heavy network traffic. I read reviews about those two options and people were complaning about disconnections with the option #1 and not #2. I also found the #2 model going for 125$ @ compusmart.ca instead of 150$ at futureshop.ca (they both offer 15$ mail in rebate).

So I'll go with the Linksys Wireless-G 54Mbps w/SpeedBooster 4-Prt Router 10/100 mentionned above.

I hope that my monolog was helpful to somebody

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Well it would be good if other people looking to make networking purchases such as routers and network cards would keep this thread alive. I'm sure many people could make better desicions this way... Especially when you are on a P2P forum, the most demanding task for a router.

Ciao

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