Top Routers For Your Home Network

Today I just felt like letting you all in on the best brand name routers you can buy. Since I do work with fixing internet connections, I have worked with most brands of routers that are out there. This will be a short and sweet post, because I am very tired and I have to get up early for work.

Personally, I think Cisco, Linksys is one of the top brand routers you can buy today. All my networking equipment has been Cisco, Linksys brand devices. They are very easy to install for the average computer user (I say average, but there are a lot of people out there that don't know squat) and many advanced features as well for the more savvy network users. Linksys routers are very durable devices. What I mean by this is that they don't brake after having it for just a couple of months.

Netgear is the other top dog router out there. The simplicity of the setup of these routers is good for the average user, but not so many advanced settings. Most routers will have basic mac address list, WEP, WPA Personal, WPA2, and other ways to specify how the private IP's are ranged per device on the network. Although, Netgear keeps it pretty simple. I consider these routers best for average users.

Now personaly, the worst brand routers you can pick are D-Link and Belkin. I don't have much to say about D-Link routers because I have always had issues with them. If you think other wise, then good for you. As for the Belkin routers, they just plain suck. I can't tell you how many times someone will call in having problems setting up their Belkin router. They are not user friendly and not very durable.

There you have it in a nut shell. The Cisco, Linksys and the Netgear routers are your best bet for home networking wired or wireless.

Windows Games

I know I promised to make a list of free games, but I have been busy with family stuff. Work has also been kicking my butt lately. I find it interesting that most people use a security program other than what microsoft already provides with its operating system. McAfee is the worst internet security program out there. Half the time pc users are wondering why their internet isn't working and it is a firewall or security issue with another program.

Anyways, here is a list of some open source windows based games. I will post another entry with linux based open source games at another date. I came across a page that has a whole list of open source windows based games. It list everything form first person shooter to board games. ENJOY! If you know some links that are not on this list please e-mail them to me so I can post them. I will be sure to give you credit for the link as well.

Open Source Games for Windows

Usefull FREE Programs/Utilities

These are all links to free programs. If you have any suggestions please e-mail me.
In the next post I plan to make a list of links of free Open Source Games. Some of the games work on windows and some may not. I will indicate which ones do and don't. Hope you all enjoy these links.

VLC - Media Player
Free FTP Client
Open Source Video Transcoder
Anti-malware application
Free Anti-Virus
PC Cleaning Tool
Defrag Program
Open Source HTML Editor
Network Protocol Analyzer
Free MP3 Ripper
Picture Editing Program