norman wrote: > I fear that my router will soon die and, as it is a number of years > since I installed my present one, I wondered if any one had any pearly > words of wisdom they could cast in my direction. I am running Ubuntu > 9.04 if that makes any difference, thanks. > > Norman > > You don't mention if you have cable or ADSL so I can't really advise on specific models, but I have not had any problems with Netgear routers I have a DG834G v2 which I used for 3 years or so without any problems which was recently retired and replaced with a BT Home Hub, and I also have a Netgear cable router (not sure of the model number off the top of my head) which was provided by Virgin Media for my cable broadband and this also works fine although I found the firmware to be a little bit more restrictive on it (I also found this on a newer Netgear ADSL router).
I've also had pretty good results with Buffalo and Linksys but had no end of problems with a Belkin router when I first invested in a wireless router. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/