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Posted: Jan 26 2012 at 10:53am | IP Logged Quote Grace&Chaos
It's no secrect, I'm pretty behind on technology . My dd just got a kindle for her birthday from my in-laws and all the kids got a Wii for christmas from my parents. So...I need to purchase a router for the wireless capabilities. I just have an old fashion cable hook up modem on one desktop computer.

What am I looking for? What do I need? I've been on amazon and the prices are just so varied. I have no clue how to discern quality or need. Any recommendations? Help, please

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Posted: Jan 26 2012 at 1:21pm | IP Logged Quote lapazfarm
Well, I am no expert, but I can tell you what we have that works just fine for us.

Belkin Wireless Router

I see that there are newer models for the same price. We got ours at Best Buy several years ago and it has been all we needed. It is hooked up in my upstairs bedroom and we get coverage through the entire house just fine, including three computers, an XBox, a Kindle and a Nook.
I just don't think regular folks need anything more than a basic one such as this.
Hope that helps.

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Posted: Jan 26 2012 at 4:06pm | IP Logged Quote SusanMc
I walked into Office Depot. Told them what I wanted, how many rooms we had and how we used our internet connection (no gaming but yes to everything else). They made a recommendation and I bought it...about $80. Now I'm sure I might have found a better deal online but not having to do the research etc. made that "extra" $10 worth it to me.



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Posted: Jan 26 2012 at 5:39pm | IP Logged Quote Grace&Chaos
lapazfarm wrote:
Well, I am no expert, but I can tell you what we have that works just fine for us.

Belkin Wireless Router

I see that there are newer models for the same price. We got ours at Best Buy several years ago and it has been all we needed. It is hooked up in my upstairs bedroom and we get coverage through the entire house just fine, including three computers, an XBox, a Kindle and a Nook.
I just don't think regular folks need anything more than a basic one such as this.
Hope that helps.


I was particularly looking at this brand. Good to know it's worked well for you. There are so many across the board reviews on these things, I just couldn't decide

I was also hoping not to spend so much on one (or pay the sales tax), but you're right Susan it is easier to probably go into an electronic store and just ask

Hmm...decisions, decisions. Thanks for the input

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Posted: Jan 26 2012 at 9:31pm | IP Logged Quote pmeilaen
We have a Linksys. My husband's colleague, a computer expert on campus, recommended this brand.

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Posted: Jan 26 2012 at 11:30pm | IP Logged Quote CatholicMommy
Pretty much any of them are going to be good. Figure on paying roughly $70-80 (that seems to the range for typical home use). Anything less than that, I'd be questioning.

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CatholicMommy wrote:
Pretty much any of them are going to be good. Figure on paying roughly $70-80 (that seems to the range for typical home use). Anything less than that, I'd be questioning.


I have always used ones less expensive than that and had no problems.

I bought this TP Link router back in Oct and have had no problems with it. It was easy to set up and works very well.

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Posted: Jan 27 2012 at 10:33am | IP Logged Quote CrunchyMom
pmeilaen wrote:
We have a Linksys. My husband's colleague, a computer expert on campus, recommended this brand.


This is what the computer guys that dh manages like as well. We ended up getting FIOS, which comes with its own router, but that is what we were looking at to replace ours.

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Posted: Jan 27 2012 at 10:34am | IP Logged Quote Kristie 4
Ours just came with our internet service (free)!

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Posted: Feb 21 2012 at 1:51pm | IP Logged Quote Grace&Chaos
Thanks for all the advice. We finally went with the Belkin N600 and are very pleased so far. It took me a while to get our modem to connect with it but since it did three weeks ago we've had no connection issues.

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