jean2;577737 Wrote:
> There is no "right" answer, it's only about options ;-)
>
> I don't see any point in using WDS if you already went through the
> trouble of laying out an Ethernet cable. WDS is more complicated, more
> brittle and lower performance, and you may potentially run into
> compat
For what it's worth, I'm very happy with my Netgear 3500L. Great
coverage and it supports DD-WRT and Tomato.
I've also used one of the Linksys N routers with internal antennas,
can't remember if it was the 160 or what, but the range sucked. (It
wasn't the 160NL, so my criticism may not apply.)
aubuti;577716 Wrote:
> It appears that there is at least one N-capable router out there
> (WRT160NL) that supports DD-WRT, so Option 1 would still be a
> possibility.
WRT160N is a good router. I use it myself (with DD-WRT). It supports
802.11n but it's not the fastest. Although you might reach 2
+1 on the Netgear. The signal strength on my Duet went from 40-50% to
90-100% with the switch from my old D-Link (how I hated that thing!)
and I didn't change the location of anything by even a millimeter.
And, the router's downstairs and my SB stuff is upstairs. For $150 and
about 10 minutes to
aubuti;577716 Wrote:
> I'm invoking "the kitchen sink" subtitle of this forum to ask a question
> about networking that is only tangentially about SBs, because I know a
> lot of the folks here will know the answers.
>
There is no "right" answer, it's only about options ;-)
aubuti;577716 Wrote:
I'm invoking "the kitchen sink" subtitle of this forum to ask a question
about networking that is only tangentially about SBs, because I know a
lot of the folks here will know the answers.
I have a Linksys WRT54GL running Tomato firmware as my router. I also
have a Netgear WGR614v3 router that ha
