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Comment on The importance of a good router – Why your internet keeps failing by Chilling_Silence

Chilling_Silence — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:05:46 +0000

Hey mate,
The Netcomm is probably a good choice, even if you don't have wireless. Otherwise, I would go with the Linksys AM300. It's possibly my fav ADSL2+ router, ever. It's reliable as anything, and as we speak mine has an uptime of 45 days (Power cut killed it before that and I don't have UPS). Don't get sucked in to getting one of the other Linksys "VoIP ready" routers, like the AG300, as they are *bad* news.

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Comment on Speed up your internet with OpenDNS by chillingsilence

chillingsilence — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 08:03:58 +0000

Hi Evan,
You’ve got some good points there, and you’re right, in some cases Akamai and others can do that. However, I’ve also found I personally spend longer waiting for websites that are poorly written which only display the main content once Ads load, and the Ads sometimes take forever. Also, even though the latency between their servers may be greater, we’re talking in my case it’s 180ms vs 30ms. That, I don’t notice, but for some reason browsing just “feels” faster with OpenDNS than my ISPs DNS servers in general. Sadly I’ve had to change back to Telecom’s, as I’m on Big Time, and I miss out on the YouTube caching if I don’t.

Comment on My thoughts on the Toshiba NB200 by chillingsilence

chillingsilence — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 09:33:19 +0000

Thanks mate It keeps me busy, and I enjoy sharing knowledge…

Comment on My thoughts on the Toshiba NB200 by pine-o-cleen

pine-o-cleen — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 08:17:42 +0000

Hey,

Just wanted to say, nice blog dude. Keep up the good work.

- pine-o-cleen (pf1)

Comment on Merging many .jar files into one .jar file by Lazy Geeks Blog » Embedding Jetty 7 into a Java application (and programmatically configuring it)

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Comment on The importance of a good router – Why your internet keeps failing by chillingsilence

chillingsilence — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 19:36:01 +0000

Great to hear you’re happy mate!

Comment on The importance of a good router – Why your internet keeps failing by jabbapam

jabbapam — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:24:17 +0000

Info here was greatly received. I bought a new Linksys WAG54G2 wireless gateway for Telstraclear after moving from Orcon. Had untold issues with speed, on the phone for hours with telstra (their service was really good, they kept their promises of ringing me back when they said they would). Finally did what I should have done in the first place and posted a query on Pressf1 and chill put me onto his blog. Got the Linksys AM300 and instant success with huge speed increase from 200Kbps with the WAG to 3000Kbps.

So… anyone looking at buying a new wireless gateway…do not buy the WAG54G2, it’s rubbish!!

Thanks CS

Comment on The importance of a good router – Why your internet keeps failing by chillingsilence

chillingsilence — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:03:42 +0000

Hi Matthew,
To be honest you won’t notice a difference in gaming at all. You may potentially notice a difference in the range, but you’re better off buying a larger antenna and boosting the power output to that antenna so that *all* who are connected via A / B / G wireless get the benefits of a larger range. N is supposed to be faster, yet even if you have a poor connection and are connected at 1mbps, you’re still going to have way more than enough “speed” to watch YouTube AND game at the same time. Then there’s the issue of N-Wireless not being a final standard yet, and some cards don’t work with some routers as well as others do. Stick with a nice G-router like the Asus WL-520GU or the Linksys WRT54GL with Tomato on it, I reckon you’d get MUCH more mileage out of it than an N-Wireless card.
Hope that helps

Chill.

Comment on The importance of a good router – Why your internet keeps failing by Matthew

Matthew — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 09:58:08 +0000

Looking at online prices I see wireless N cards are about $70+ are they really worth it? Will I notice a difference in online gaming and what model would you reccomend?
Thanks,

Matthew