[H-GEN] Wireless routers/switches and NICs?

[Conor Cunningham]

Simon,

I have a reasonable amount of exposure to a considerable number of 
wireless switches/routers and cards. I myself use D-Link and have 
regretted it from the start. I find that they are unrealiable, even with 
updates of drivers and firmware. However, I have been told that the new 
models are somewhat better; i'll believe this when I see it.

The brand I recommend which I have had considerable success with is 
Linksys - A subdivison of Cisco. Their routers I have found to be solid 
as a rock, and when I last installed one for a friend I have found that 
the network has run consistantly well without any failings for a month.

On top of this, the Linksys router/switch WRT54G and the WRT54GS provide 
the ability to use Open Soure Linux firmware. I have not yet done this 
as I am in no need of a new wireless router, but I would love to hear 
some reports. A friend of mine tried and was quite impressed. They also 
use a speed boosting technology which can give up to a 35% speed 
increase of the 80.11g speed of 54Mbps

And at about $135 and $150 respectively, these two bad boys are a good buy.

The Linksys PCI cards are about $85 dollars a pop, making them a tad 
more expensive than the rest. Saying this, they have larger aerials than 
all the PCI cards I have seen (bigger means better :) ), but whether 
this actually increases signal strength I can not say for sure. What I 
can say however, is that the signal strength as reported by and I hate 
to say it here, my client's windows boxes, is better than the signal 
strength I get a home with my D-Link setup, using both windows and Linux 
at a closer range to my router than the distances used at my client's house.

Now, I must say, that I do have Linux experience with my own D-Link 
hardware, but not the Linksys; however I am told that they work a treat 
under the various flavours of Linux that my mates use.

Hope this helps a wee bit.

...conor

Simon ELLIS wrote:

>To the people using wireless networking (Brismesh etc), what are the
>recommended wireless routers/switches and network adapters ( PCI, USB).
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