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Lord Joe	Posted: Nov 26 2009, 06:41 PM
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Posted: Nov 26 2009, 08:29 PM

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The Western Digital would work out roughly the same when you throw in the shipping, and for the couple of euro in price difference I'd rather use Iomega. They've been good to me over the years.

Nice find on the Pixmania, good value. It looks like one of the older models (don't see it listed on Iomega's site anymore), but feckers won't show which one it actually is. Price is really tempting, but there is one flaw- both customer reviews say it's really noisy. Huge drawback considering it'll be running consistently on a wooden floor. All the reviews I can find on the one I posted say it's pretty quiet.

Routers look good, but the reviews say otherwise. When they actually say "pass on this", that's when you say no. http://reviews.cnet.com/routers/d-link-ran...7-31841162.html

As for the second one, Komplett themselves say it's not customized for Ireland- not filling me with optimism here. Review looks promising other than that though. http://reviews.cnet.com/routers/d-link-dir...7-32145084.html

One I've listed is reviewed here (identical model except it has more advanced network traffic optimization alogrithms and is more expensive)- http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/networkin...gaming-router/3

Only real flaw they have is the price. Like I said before I'd rather throw money towards reliability than save a tenner and be cursing at it. Other flaws were bitching that the network alogrithm only halved the ping rate for games when on full load- I can live with that since it'd rarely be that much traffic on it and reducing ping by that much is still pretty impressive. They do say that the range is impressive-

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With the router on the third floor of a modern house, an Xbox 360 was able to connect at full signal through multiple walls on the ground floor, despite struggling to get a signal at all using the single antenna router originally provided by our ISP.

Which is what I need to boost the signal through the all the stuff in the way from the kitchen. If it can do that, bye-bye mess in the hall!

Cheers for the recommendations though. If I was still living at home I'd have that Iomega one you posted ordered right now (since it'd only be an archive drive for file dumping rather than everyday use). Would highly recommend it Joe if you're looking for more storage. Great price and I can tell you they're very reliable.

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