thanks to the mwave.com pricing mistake, i can get the ASUS WL-500W for $44 AR + shipping (so i'm assuming around $50)...it comes with 2 USB ports and has 32mb RAM and 8mb flash

my parents need a new wireless router anyway, so i'll probably give them my buffalo running tomato and put DD-WRT on this one (since the tomato folks are being insanely slow in their N support)

sooooo, my question is this: since i'm upgrading to N-wireless, should i also upgrade to gigabit? i do a significant amount of network data transfer, but none of my units have gigabit ethernet cards (though both of the laptops that'll be on the network have N-wireless)

$50 was pretty much my max (since i was originally just going to get this for my parents directly instead of for myself), but i don't see gigabit/N wireless routers coming down any time soon...should i wait it out and hope to come across something awesome, or is this by far the best deal i'll find for an N router in the near future?

2/2/2009 2:52:48 PM

obviously if you're not hardwiring your comps or if they don't have gigabit nics (how old are your computers anyway?) then gigabit is useless.

If it were me, I know i'd jump on a cheapish gigabit router if I had the chance.

2/2/2009 3:37:30 PM

one is a laptop with a bum screen that i use for various projects (mostly as a file server, though) and the other is my HTPC...the laptop is pretty old, but powerful enough to do what i want, and the HTPC is probably about a year (the integrated NIC is all i use, and it's not gigabit)

yeah, right now it doesn't do me any good...but i wasn't sure whether it was worth the premium at this moment, for use in the future...for $50, i'm having a hard time finding something better than the ASUS, which is really only better than my buffalo because it's wireless N and has 2 USB ports

2/2/2009 3:51:44 PM

depends on the computers

2/2/2009 3:56:27 PM

it's sounding more and more like it'll make no difference now (obviously) and probably not a whole lot in the immediate future...so i think i'll pass

thxu

2/2/2009 3:59:44 PM

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"obviously if you're not hardwiring your comps or if they don't have gigabit nics (how old are your computers anyway?) then gigabit is useless."

2/2/2009 5:27:13 PM