So i’m sick of flaky wifi / routers / access points. I’ve had netgear’s, d-link’s, belkin’s, and linksys routers. To me they all were about the same, which is to say they worked some of the time.
Before i go back to getting one more of the same to replace my now limping netgear, i’ve thought, what if i got something more than the cheapest consumer class wifi router. I know that hotels, conference centers, and all sorts of other places have wifi which doesn’t need to be restarted on a regular basis, that doesn’t suck. Sure some have wifi which sucks, but some don’t. The same goes with companies, at Yahoo! there was good wifi coverage all over campus, their crazy vpn made it hard to use, but the coverage was there.
So then my question becomes, what are my options one level up? So far a little searching around i found the Cisco Aironet’s which start around $200 for the lower end models and the ZyXAL’s ZyWALL 2WG router which supports 3G as a backup connection in addition to being a wifi router at $250+.
Are those good routers? What are the alternatives in that quality range? Has anybody tried and used either of those?
Dear lazyweb, please help….
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I have a buddy who created a mesh network at his house using these bad boys:
http://meraki.com/
- sob
July 16th, 2008
I was in your same shoes sometime last year. I took the plunge and bought an Airport Extreme and have been super pleased with it. Not a single problem.
July 16th, 2008
I understand your complaints with D-Link (have had 4 out of 5 D-Link products break within a year), but Linksys wifi routers have always worked well for me if you don’t miss QoS features. They’re quite reliable for me; much more so than my DSL unfortunately.
July 16th, 2008
Have you looked into DD-WRT?
July 16th, 2008
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