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    Re: Routers have become awfully complex and expensive. Recommend me a good cheap one?

    A lot of the features on CISCO are by subscription and not really suited to the home network, plus are quite costly to run 24/7 electrical wise compared to standard home / office routers

    I have found Draytek good in the past and really good after sales support

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    Re: Routers have become awfully complex and expensive. Recommend me a good cheap one?

    tp link are very good routers.

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    Re: Routers have become awfully complex and expensive. Recommend me a good cheap one?

    I've been tinkering with Cisco IoS for the last 3 years, when I say tinkering I mean doing a degree in networking which is based on the Cisco equipment I still dont understand the bloody stuff
    Its fine for business routers and switches but for home stuff, not so sure.

    Draytek and Buffalo would get my vote, but I do hear very good things about Asus.
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    Re: Routers have become awfully complex and expensive. Recommend me a good cheap one?

    I would pick up a BT HomeHub from eBay. They usually go for £20-£30 and at that price point are fantastic value.

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    Re: Routers have become awfully complex and expensive. Recommend me a good cheap one?

    Another vote for a Homehub5 from me!

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    Re: Routers have become awfully complex and expensive. Recommend me a good cheap one?

    I'd also recommend a TP-Link WDR3600 flashed with DD-WRT.
    The replacement Firmware makes for a very stable, feature-filled solution.

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    Re: Routers have become awfully complex and expensive. Recommend me a good cheap one?

    The Dlink dir-868l is great and uses the AC protocol as well as being backward compatible. I think Scan has it for less than £70.

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