I'd recommend a good long look at Apple's offrering. I've setup a 1 router + 3 APs system recently, using Airport Expresses. While setup was in progress it replaced the Netgear WNDR 4000 I normally use as my AP. The hockey puck is minuscule but coverage was much, much better. "Zero handoff", the ability to associate seamlessly to the closest AP without disturbing the connection is well implemented (use case: laptop/tablet user streaming a video while moving around the premises). Setup is easy and stays this way even in a more complex topology like the one I was using. As in all things Apple, it doesn't pretend to do things you don't want; and in the AE's case, some things I wanted (IPv4 DNS, Tx power setting). But the AE is the bottom of the line, and quite inexpensive if you get it from the refurb store. And it's an Airplay target as well. The Airport Express is quite good at modern things: IPv6, mDNS, DNS-SD, Sleep Proxy.
My frontline router is a PCEngines machine running m0n0wall (showing my age, here...) I like to exert control. I always shunned Apple's networking stuff due to their requirement of a PC or Mac to configure the devices. But iThings everywhere have lifted this objection, and frankly for my next generation of home/office WLAN infra I will most probably ditch Netgear. Complexity doesn't necessarily rhyme with performance. I picked the AEs for price (refurbished) and aesthetics considerations. My other candidate was Ubiquiti and their Unifi products. I believe these are also worth a look, if you don't mind office-style flying saucers attached to your ceiling. My 2cts. 4 SB 3 iPeng (iPhone + iPad) SqueezeLite Squeezebox Server 7.8.1 (Debian 7.5) with plugins: CD Player, WaveInput by bpa IRBlaster by Gwendesign (Felix) Server Power Control by Gordon Harris Smart Mix by Michael Herger PowerSave by Jason Holtzapple Song Info, Song Lyrics by Erland Isaksson WeatherTime by Martin Rehfeld ShairTunes by StuartUSA Local Player, BBC iPlayer, SwitchPlayer by Triode Auto Dim Display, SaverSwitcher, ContextMenu by Peter Watkins. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ epoch1970's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16711 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103768
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