Re: Home router question

[David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

GKern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Now to the heart of the matter: I'm curious as to whether the firmware 
> which I finally upgraded has affected our bandwidth capability. The new 
> firmware has what is called QOS and when that is enabled the website seems 
> to perform like it did before the upgrade, but then when we connect to the 
> office for telenet sessions, those connections seem to suffer. 

Well, QOS (Quality Of Service) is (AFAIK) for outbound connections ...
it basically gives certain connections priority over others.  I use it
on my VOIP.  I give the MAC address of my telephone adapter the highest
priority so that other traffic won't effect the voice quality.

I don't know if QOS applies to inbound ... but I guess it could.

> So I'm beginning to wonder if I should investigate a better quality router 
> for home. Any ideas for suggestions for an upgrade path that isn't 
> terribly expensive?

I've always used Linksys routers and had good luck with them ...
although I don't try to host services on them.  For midrange.com I use
Covad SDSL service with a Netopia router.

You might want to consider getting a WRT54GL and upgrading the firmware
... some of the 3rd party firmwares for the 54G are pretty nice.

david