You may (or may not) remember the topic I made a month or so ago. I was venting my frustration with my LAN continually "crapping out." I've determined that the peer to peer program I was using was not the problem, based on the following: there's a program I use called "GameSpy Arcade." It's used to gather servers from a game I play online called "Battlefield 2." When I do a global server update, it checks the status of over 1,000 servers...returning the settings of that server, along with the ping between it and my computer.
If I re-update the server list, my LAN crashes, almost every time. I'm convinced that my Belkin router, a few years old now, just is flat-out not capable of handling three computers on a network.
I'm going to buy a new router and see if this fixes the problem. What brand would you recommend? How is DLink? Anyone have personal experience with them? There's a DLink router at a local pawn shopping selling for $20 that I'd like to pick up; I'm familiar with them, as I used them in school and we seemed to have success...
This is really frustrating me. I think I'll try out that DLink, barring someone has a better suggestion?
