What Router is Best for me?

[B]

I am a college student - I dont have an abundance of cash floating around in my pockets.  I currently own a Netgear router but it has been crapping out on me often.  I am looking to buy a new router, any brand.  I would like something that is dependable and inexpensive.  With all the router options that I could be a consumer of, I am confused as to what router is best for me.  What do you think?  What router is best for me?  

A little more of my situation:

- 2 roommates, signal would have to go through a few walls (max 75 feet away).  they both have wireless cards in their laptops

- I would be using it wireless with my laptop as well.

- I have an xbox360 and would like to play on xbox live

- at my new apartment Time Warner Cable will be installing Road Runner Turbo for us.

- again, Not a lot of money to put into a router.

- If you need more information to make a decision as to what router is best for me, please ask!

- Based on this information... What router is best for me?

Thanks for your help!


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[Anon]

Try http://forums.speedguide.net/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=42


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[johntrottier]

You did not say if you were going to use the Xbox with wireless or wired.
You also did not say what your roommates were planning to do besides surf the web and e-mail
Based on what my daughter went through with her roommates and a shared broadband connection, here are a few things to keep in mind.

Game Playing - needs a lot of bandwidth and a fast connection. A roommate doing a music download can kill your connection with Xbox Live in a heartbeat.
P2P downloads can max out your system making it harder for other people to surf the net, let alone do file transfers, remote desktops or on line classes
I suspect that your old Netgear has not \"crapping out on you\" so much as 2 or 3 roommates all trying do their thing has brought the system to it\'s knees.

For this reason I would recommend that the three of you get together and purchase a gaming router rather than a standard home router. The cost will surely cause you all to wince a bit, but a gaming router has the ability to allocate and share bandwidth between users, rather than the \"first one in gets it all while the rest are hosed\" system your typical home router uses

Here\'s a link to an example.


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