I myself am running two Linksys 802.11N wireless routers (WRT310N<http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?c=L_Promotion_C2&childpagename=US%2FLayout&cid=1175239823413&pagename=Linksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWrapper&lid=2341322555L03>), the one with the gigabit ethernet ports. Thus far I've been quite satisfied with them. I have DD-WRT installed on both.
I only have two small disliked about this model. First, they can get rather warm, so don't boost the transmission power above 70 unless you are going to build some sort of cooling system. I have them mounted on a wall, held horizontally via an angle bracket. This leaves most of the bottom exposed to the air, which I've found helps quite a bit with temperature. The other minor issue with this one is that the antennas are internal, and therefore not detachable. For what I'm using them for, I have no need to attach external antennas, but it would be nice to have the option. I'm sure someone with more skills than I could probably rig the thing to attach to an external antenna, but I'm not going to risk it. Other than those two issues, it has been a great little device. One thing you should keep in mind is that the advertised speed is a little misleading on any wifi device. This is because, due to the nature of how radio transmitters/receivers work, only one device can be sending at any given time on a specific channel, or else signals collide and cause problems. For example, though the technical speed of 802.11G is 54MB/s, a lot of that speed is used for the radios to coordinate the timing of who transmits when. Therefore, you're real life data transmission will be more like 22MB/s. The more wireless devices on that channel, the more coordination necessary, and the less actual speed that you get to use. Douglass Clem crashsystems.net Public Key: http://crashsystems.net/pubkey.asc --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
