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

[Nick Kwiatkowski]

FYI,

A good site to find prices (computer parts and all things techie) is
http://www.staticice.com.au/ - unless you can things wholesale!

i.e. http://www.staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=WRT54G, Umart in
Milton has them for $119.00

I have the WRT54G and am very happy with it technically, the phyical boxing
is a little less rugged as it could be.

Ciao,

Nik

Nickolas Kwiatkowski
IT Architect (Certified)
Systems Engineering and Architecture (SEA)
Application Management Services
IBM Global Services, Brisbane, Australia
phone:  07 3213 2149,  mobile:  0412 121 276,  email:  nickolas at au1.ibm.com
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity" - Albert Einstein

general-bounces at lists.humbug.org.au wrote on 08/02/2005 09:19:05 AM:

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> 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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