I recently upgraded my internet service with TWC and my new cable modem (Arris TG862G) is also a wireless g/n router. I have a Linksys WRT54g running DD-WRT that I've been using. I don't have wireless-n devices other than my cell phone and first generation Kindle Fire; everything else is wireless-g.

I'm looking for advice and best practices. The firmware on the cable modem/router looks well featured and that it can do everything I'm currently doing with DD-WRT except the graphic bandwidth monitoring. Right now, my WRT54g seems redundant. However, it's bulletproof in term of reliability and I don't know what you expect from the Arris TG862G.

5/15/2013 11:58:33 AM

Surely someone has some good recommendations. Setting up wireless repeaters, a seperate guest network, some strange multimedia applications, etc...

5/15/2013 9:10:52 PM

with DD-WRT, the WRT54G has about the best signal and range you could ask for if you don't have any highly data intensive n-devices, so I would probably keep using it

5/15/2013 9:17:24 PM

I've noticed that the wireless with the new router is only faster than the wrt54g if you're within ~ 20 feet of it.

5/15/2013 9:35:46 PM

get less penetration with the higher frequency

5/15/2013 10:20:40 PM

With DD-WRT, you can use this to block ads on all of your devices: http://www.howtogeek.com/51477/how-to-remove-advertisements-with-pixelserv-on-dd-wrt/

Whenever I change my router, I always make sure to get one that can run STD-USB-NAS or bigger (the builds that support both JFFS2 and IPv6), with enough free space left over for a good-sized HOSTS file on that JFFS partition.

5/16/2013 10:59:13 AM