Are router recomendations a thing?

[emosun]

Is it dumb to ask for a router recomendation? becuase i was about to just go to bestbuy and get literally anything off the shelf that was gigabit instead of 10/100. All I really want is something that is gigabit and won't break

[LebowskiBuschemi]

9 minutes ago, emosun said:

Is it dumb to ask for a router recomendation? becuase i was about to just go to bestbuy and get literally anything off the shelf that was gigabit instead of 10/100. All I really want is something that is gigabit and won't break

You could look into ASUS routers. I've heard ASUS makes very good ones. 

[DrMacintosh]

I'm a Linksys fanboy for no actual reason other than they make the Velop AX4200 which is a Wifi 6 router that's a white rectangle tower and I love it. 

[191x7]

12 minutes ago, emosun said:

Is it dumb to ask for a router recomendation? becuase i was about to just go to bestbuy and get literally anything off the shelf that was gigabit instead of 10/100. All I really want is something that is gigabit and won't break

Which type of the Internet connectionare you using?

 

Would you like the new router to replace the old or would you "extend" the old, maybe use the old one as the "modem" (like in bridge modem)?

 

Do you need features like bufferbloat compensation (smart queue management, speed limiting, routing algorithms)?

[emosun]

1 minute ago, DrMacintosh said:

 

3 minutes ago, LebowskiBuschemi said:

 

So from the sounds of it it kinda doesn't matter what I pick

[LebowskiBuschemi]

Just now, emosun said:

So from the sounds of it it kinda doesn't matter what I pick

Just don't go for the no-name brand ones. Some of them don't even have a power button. 

[DrMacintosh]

2 minutes ago, emosun said:

So from the sounds of it it kinda doesn't matter what I pick

Exactly. Big brands, like Asus, Gigabyte, Linksys, Netgear. TP-Link all make great stuff. Get something with Wifi 6 and you'll have a great network. 6E is better but also a lot more expensive. 

[emosun]

1 minute ago, 191x7 said:

Which type of the Internet connectionare you using?

I'm just doing a large file transfer from one hard drive to another over the network and 10/100 is too slow , doesn;t even need internet

2 minutes ago, 191x7 said:

Would you like the new router to replace the old or would you "extend" the old, maybe use the old one as the "modem" (like in bridge modem)?

I guess it could replace the old , i hardly ever do anything via network though and don;t really need it beyond this one file transfer lol

3 minutes ago, 191x7 said:

Do you need features like bufferbloat compensation (smart queue management, speed limiting, routing algorithms)?

no it just needs to not break. I know most components these days are extremely poor quality so anything that isn;t just ewaste would be cool.

[emosun]

2 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

Get something with Wifi 6 and you'll have a great network. 6E is better but also a lot more expensive. 

well it's kinda better if the wifi sucks as then my neighbors won't pick it up

[emosun]

4 minutes ago, LebowskiBuschemi said:

Just don't go for the no-name brand ones. Some of them don't even have a power button. 

does it need a power button?

[LebowskiBuschemi]

3 minutes ago, emosun said:

does it need a power button?

It just feels weird of having to pull out the cable whenever you want to restart the damn thing.

 

 

[emosun]

10 minutes ago, LebowskiBuschemi said:

It just feels weird of having to pull out the cable whenever you want to restart the damn thing.

well on my modem it feels weird pushing the power button and literally nothing at all happens lol

[191x7]

21 minutes ago, emosun said:

I'm just doing a large file transfer from one hard drive to another over the network and 10/100 is too slow , doesn;t even need internet

I guess it could replace the old , i hardly ever do anything via network though and don;t really need it beyond this one file transfer lol

no it just needs to not break. I know most components these days are extremely poor quality so anything that isn;t just ewaste would be cool.

Then you don't need a router, you need a regular switch, a Gigabit one.

[emosun]

4 minutes ago, 191x7 said:

Then you don't need a router, you need a regular switch, a Gigabit one.

did you have one in mind? also what does a router even do then becuase I assumed it was just a switch with some wireless crap on it occasionally

[191x7]

8 minutes ago, emosun said:

did you have one in mind? also what does a router even do then becuase I assumed it was just a switch with some wireless crap on it occasionally

A switch enables the communication between the devices connected to it.

A router routes between different networks or switches.

https://www.javatpoint.com/switch-vs-router

[Alex Atkin UK]

3 hours ago, emosun said:

did you have one in mind? also what does a router even do then becuase I assumed it was just a switch with some wireless crap on it occasionally

For cheap unmanaged Gigabit switches, generally even the cheap random brands are fine, they're basically the same internally anyway with everything done in off-the-shelf chips, nothing all that different between them, no firmware to worry about, etc.

Routers are far more complicated and thus why going cheap is a bad idea as they rely on the hardware being decent, software being written well, regular security fixes, etc.  They're generally a semi-managed switch chip + WiFi + low power computer.

[wseaton]

What most people refer to as a Router today are an all in one combination of a switch, firewall, wifi access point and router.

 

I haven't seen an all in one using a 10/100 Switch in over a decade. If its using such a slow switch its likely no faster than N class wifi and should be chucked.