looking for a reliable wireless router. please help

hi all!

i just jot a Netgear WPN824 G+ MIMO (rangemax). honestly, i don't see any better range. the signal is kinda okay and i think it just keeps losing the signal once in a while.

is there any other more reliable ones? Belkin? Linksys or D-Link?

i need wireless B,G. better range is the most important.

many thanks in advance

 

Linksys WRT54G2

Even though it doesn't have external antennas it's range is very good IMHO.

 

Wait a couple weeks for The Buffalo routers to return to the market. Buffalo was under court injunction for the last year and a half and couldn't sell their routers in the US, but they won on appeal in December and products should start hitting the retailers by the end of this month they say.

They were showing them off at CES in early Janury--Buffalo always makes good stuff at good prices

 

That's good news to hear about Buffalo - I was looking at their stuff just as the injunction hit, and got stuffed when I couldn't buy the item I'd finally settled on.

 

I've had one buffalo whr-54gs for years now at home and it has performed flawlessly--best of all the routers I've collected. I've played with dozens of routers for people who are having network issues and never once had a problem with a buffalo router--wish I could say the same for some other brands (don't get me started on Belkin and Netgear routers, though I will say I've had a Netgear pcimia adapter running strong for years).

I always meant to flash my buffalo router to dd-wrt, but never got around to it and the thing worked to well with the stock firmware

Whenthe injuntion hit I got lucky as the local grocery/super store (which has a few computer peripherals) clearanced their buffalo routers and network adapters.

I bought two whr-g54s routers for my church at $30 each because among other great features, these things supported Wireless Distribution Service so you could bridge your network to extend the range (church is too wide to reach from the pastor's office on one end to the assistant pastor's office on the other.)

 

If the opportunity presents itself i'll give Buffalo a try myself gerry!

 

i actually went to Fry's to pick up a Linksys WRT110 wireless rangeplus router>>>on sale for only $49. i hooked it up and is working flawlessly and fast too. i hope the hardware lasts for some time

by the way, have you guys ever used TrendNET routers? are they okay?

 

I'm thinking of donating the last whr-g54s router I have to the church and grabbing myself the new WZR-HP-G300NH. There's one more wing at the church the two I have in place don't quite reach...

Now, if you do use WDS with these things, you ahve to be aware that WDS does consume about half of the bandwith to maintain the connection/signal strength--ideally, you should run WDS in a hub arrangement with the original connection in the center and then move out from there--but the connection comes in on one end of the building so I would be daisy-chaining them at a cost of speed. (you never want to have more than 4 in a chain, and probably not more than three).

Still, something is better than nothing and the wife usually OKs upgrades if it involves church donations

 

i agree with you on that. the range is pretty good. i got the WRT110 instead of the one you mentioned for 2 reasons: 1) it is a rangeplus model. 2) the WRT54G2 seems to have lots of bad reviews (dead hardware).

 

Hit and miss on Trendnet. The TEW-633GR is very nice, though it operates in the 2.4 range and depending where you are you might want to opt for one that operates in the 5 ghtz range (less congestion).

The one wireless g trendnet I saw not too long ago had some issues with heat. It was very hot but seemed to work OK, though range was a little short...no drops, though.

I've also had some issues with trendnet wireless adapters, though--especially the usb ones (they overheat)

 

very useful info. thanks.
i almost got a TrendNET wireless G router w/ 3-year warranty on it.

by the way, do you know any good DSL modem for verizon? mine's getting kinda old now.

 

Been using the netopia wi-fi business model

http://store.att.com/catalog/productdetails.asp?ProductId=3347-02-1002K&CategoryId=catMRG

May be overkill--my main reason is that it is more configurable and I am using it to setup a VPN with a firewall and most of the other DSL modems I've seen get in the way

 

cool. does that work with VERIZON too?

 

I don't know why it wouldn't...

 

the wireless 108g routers...

how does that work? do you need certain wireless cards to accept the speed boost or whatever the router is doing? if you've seen my other thread, i have a feeling my router is hopelessly lost (so i'm looking to buy another one...

 

Yes, they are proprietary data transfer protocols and only work at those speeds when you have matching hardware

 

This is usually true.

 

so, is the WRT54G2 router any better than the WRT54G(L) router?

i've read with updating the firmware, the router is much more stable, and my WRT54G was pretty nice when i first bought it way back when, but over the last 3 years i have needed to reset it at least once per month. since i have a linksys modem, i would rather purchase a linksys router... but right now i'm unsure of which one to get.