On 10/29/07, Ophidian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In the area of wired switches, I have found that technology has matured > > and you get pretty much the same performance (100% bandwith) from any > > switch (I paid $12 for some of my switches). I wouldn't necessarily > > recommend it for enterprise-level switching (on the other hand, I also > > plan to use it for some later this year). > > > > However, I don't know whether this applies to wireless. I bought a > > dirt-cheap Belkin AP a few years ago and found it adequate, but the > > configuration paradigm was bundled (windoze-only) software. > > The one gotcha with the different brands is that some of them use > cheaper parts that can't handle as many connections/open ports and can > thus get overloaded. You most often see this sort of behaviour with > Bittorrent, but I've also done it to a switch when I had a bookmark > folder of 15ish links (webcomics) and clicked "Open In Tabs" in Firefox. > > It tends to be hit or miss. Previously, Netgear has had a good > reputation, but my only experience with their wireless routers has been > poor, with the one my girlfriend got (sadly at my suggestion) flaking > out pretty severely whenever a P2P application looked at it funny or an > app like Adium/Pidgin opened too many ports when connecting. The > solution was always to unplug/replug to force it to reboot. > > One decent resource to steer you in the right direction may be > http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/Bad_routers. Note however that > when it lists the Linksys stuff, that's for the stock firmware, a number > of them can run custom stuff like dd-wrt.
I think I will settle for this: Linksys Gateway Wireless Wrt54g Let me know... m. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
