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In response to "maybe I'll try a new router, mine is almost 8 years old. my new laptop has loads of connectivity issues. any other ideas?" by b.

WRT54GL, even the 8 year old one, is popular because you can completely replace the firmware with better code called openWRT

Posted by Beryllium (aka grayman) Jun 10 '15, 13:22

or Tomato or dd-wrt. Lots of choices.

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ah, I am unlikely to do that. I see ML rec'd this one a while back. it looks promising. (linked). allow me a dumb question? - b. Jun 10, 13:27 2
- I bought that same one and set it up wirelessly. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 10, 13:28 1
  - great, thanks! I'll try your tip below before buying anything new, but I'll keep that one in mind (and in my amazon cart in case the price goes down) -- nm - b. Jun 10, 13:29
But a temporary fix for most issues is to go into the router settings and tell it to ignore your ISP's DNS and use google's DNS instead -- (link) - Beryllium Jun 10, 13:23 1
- thank you! I will try that tonight. :) - -- nm - b. Jun 10, 13:27

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