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What's a good router?

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What does D-link and "G" mean?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    I work in tech support and the majority of our customers use linksys. I would really stay away from netgear. Just know that if you have any issue with a linksys their tech support is outsourced to india so you might have a bit of a lanuage barrier.

  • 1 decade ago

    D-link is a brand that is compatible with a lot of macs. For windows I would go with Netgear. It's a great brand that I have in my house. There is four different kind of routers. There is G, Super G, Mimo and N. G is the basic singal that can go about 120 feet in range and 54 mps (megabytes per Second), superG can go 300 ft and 108 mps, Mimo which means multiple in and multiple out goes 240 mps and 400 ft in range, and N goes over 240 mps and over 400 ft in range. N is a completely differenet singal thoiugh and is hard to work with becuase sometimes it doesn't work with the G signal. But for a house, G, super G or Mimo will work great. Now Depending on your internet service the mps will differ. For comcast it is about 100mps and to get the full speed out of it you would use a Super G or higher. But the regular G singal will work as well and you won't see a difference. The next thing is how far you want the signal to reach weather that be to your desktop or laptop. So, maybe the superG will be good in range and speed or maybe not. Maybe its not long enough then you can go to the Mimo router. Thats up to you and how your house is setup. Now you will lose signal through cement so keep that in mind. There are two major brands Lynksys and Netgear i personally like netgear better but they both work great. The stronger the router the more expensive it is. If your goin to go Super G get Netgear's 108 mps router because its faster and can go a bit further but the G and N signals are the same. The mimo router is the best in my opinion made my Netgear and I think is teh best router you can get now a days becuase the N still has some glitches and kinks to work out. The netgear Mimo router will ahve a big blue light on the center of it and you should be able to recognize it in the store. But good luck and I hope this help you out.

  • 1 decade ago

    I would suggest a linksys or netgear. I've used both concurrently with very little bias between the two. So basically whichever you can get cheaper. I am using a WRT54G (802.11g standard). There are more expensive routers out there if you are just wanting to share an internet connection stick with G as the others are a bit to pricey.

    D-link is the company and G is the wireless protocol that the router uses.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    D-link is a brand name like Ford.

    I use a D-Link ADSL Router model DSL502-T and plugged into that I have a D-Link Wireless router model DI-624.

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  • 1 decade ago

    get the Linksys Wireless-G Router...

    D-Link is a Taiwanese company that manufactures wireless and Ethernet computer networking products.

    Wireless G is the wireless local area network (WLAN) standard developed by the IEEE LAN/MAN Standards Committee (IEEE 802) in the 5GHz public spectrum.

    go here for more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_G#802.11g

    Source(s): wikipedia
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    "LINKSYS WIRELESS G" is what i use at home. It's fairly priced, and very good. It's providing wireless internet all over my house.

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