9/22 Ok, I am behind the times, but I am finally ready to go wireless
with my home networking. what's a good wireless gateway (?) to
buy?
\_ I've had good experiences with netgear. I've had 2 out of 3
linksys wireless access points die on me within a year (and they
just sit on my desk).
\_ i had a netgear that would have my ssh connections hang after
5 minutes. they later released the same router w/ a v2 tag that
fixed the problem. I've since bought another netgear and the
problem went away.
\_ This is so far the most common problem I have had with
broadband routers. If you have the patience to explain the
problem to their clueless, computer illiterate lowest-level
tech support people, they will eventually forward it to the
engineers who might eventually release a firmware update that
fixes this.
\_ the latest firmware download didnt fix the problem... you
had to actually go out and buy the MR814v2. bastards.
\_ I like the Linksys WRT54G because it runs Linux and there are
custom firmwares that add packet-scheduling. My only complaint is
that it chokes up if you have more than about 200 simultaneous TCP
connections.
\_ I have this one as well. Being my first one, I can't say if this
is better or worse than others on the market, but I haven't had
any issues with it once I got it up and running.
\_ If you want linux support, use the ones with Atheros chipset.
http://customerproducts.atheros.com/customerproducts
\_ Huh? All the WAP-54G and WRT-54G can run the Linux-based
firmware, in addition to Freya (which is nice) and others.
Are you talking about the Atheros _card_? I am having
a ton of trouble getting it working with the madwifi
drivers under Debian. Get a nice generic Orinoco or
Proxim card (don't know if the Linksys 54 cards work,
never tried mine.) -John
\_ I bought D-Link 624 802.11g router from Amazon a few months ago.
I have had a rocky experience with Linksys and D-Link routers in the
past so I wasn't expecting much from it. However, it seems to work
just fine. The only problem is that it forgets ALL settings after
firmware upgrades. Amazon has them right now for $38 with a $30
mail-in rebate.
\_ I have a D-Link DI-614+ and DI-624. Both are fine, but will
drop your ssh session if you idle longer than ~ 90 minutes (not
sure how long), but I hear most wireless routers do this. I just
tell my terminal program to send one space character every hour.
Avoid Microsoft wireless routers, I heard bad things wrt quality
control. Eh, just search for your model on http://newegg.com and see
what people say.
\_ To fix the idle session drop thing, run an xclock over it. |
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