Commercial Grade Wireless Access Points?
 

My Netgear WNR834B is on it's way out, the wireless card in it is starting to make some funny noises.

One of my pet peeves with it is how often I'd have to power cycle the thing to regain connectivity to my laptop. There's also probably at least 10 other access points in the area and I'd have trouble streaming movies from my desktop to my laptop in my bedroom at the other side of the house.

I'm thinking of putting down the cash for something commercial grade.

What I'm looking for is something extremely stable, and will pretty much outpower all my neighbors.

Any suggestions?

No need for commercial grade WAP. Only thing you really gain is ability to set up independent login for users, but they are $$$.

Any linksys high end routers will serve just fine for your purpose.

Anyone have experience with Linksys WRT610N or E3000's?

You can also buy larger antennas as well as get custom firmware like ddwrt or tomato and boost the power settings.

I can get u a telus 2wire mondem/router if u want. The modem function can be turned off and made into a pure router. The 2wire has really good wireless strenght and signal but the modem function is well not good but that wouldn't matter in this case.

Let me know
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I've used my WRT54GL for years now and it's done a superb job.

http://ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=17408

DDWRT custom firmware is the way to go...gives you ability to do commercial-grade things.

I think routers like the WRT54G w/ DD-WRT make excellent routers -- that's what I have, however, I found that DD-WRT didn't do a great job of boosting the power of the antennas just through it's software.

If you need commercial POWER, then you'll need bigger antennas, not just new firmware. If you need commercial grade FEATURES, then just get any DD-WRT compatible router, and go with that.

I've had problems with the 2wires in the past with connection issues and such.

Yea as a modem the 2wire isnt very good but as a wireless router its pretty damn good. The modem itself isnt too bad its all the Telus firmware that causes the issue however like I said before converting the 2wire to be a pure router is something I highly recommend as it will be very strong and stable.

I have one setup upstairs near the front of the house and get a strong signal when I'm outside in my garage

i'm in the same boat Great68, fucking routers

the WRT-300N i bought for like $98 was going for $150 for almost a full year after i got it for $100

in hindsight i wouldnt have paid $60 for it if i knew how shitty the range was, wireless routers are my #1 pet peave with Electronics it would seem

make sure you get the L version of the WRT54GL <--- L at the end, stands for linux, this guarantees you to customize your firmware.

I've had this router for about 4-5 years now, never had to restart once due to lag.

Mind you, that router is still using the G specification, so if your transferring and files or streaming high def video, I'd look for something else.

My problems could just be my Netgear Router acting sickly. I'd get stuttery video on my media center PC (connected wireless N) with just 700meg xvid files. And it's basically 4 feet away on the other side of a plaster wall from the router.

The WRT54G's don't do wireless N, which is an important for me as I want the bandwidth to be setup to be able to stream full hi def video in the future.

One of these with a couple of high gain antennas? :D

Might set you back a grand but I don't think you'll have any problems with getting a good signal. :D

If the PC you want to stream to is just on the other side of the wall and if it's not too hard to get through, why not just bust a hole in the wall and hardwire it? No matter how good the gear you get, a hardwire connection will always be better than any wireless connection. Buy a few keystone RJ45 jacks to make it look nicer.

I don't own the wall I need to bust through (I rent)

I see those Aironets in the government datacenter I sometimes have to work at, and that's what I was thinking when I made this thread. I had no idea they were THAT much money.

cisco aironets are good if you are able to configure them properly and have the cash to spend, but its really not worth it.

http://ncix.com/products/index.php?s...ufacture=CISCO

gets my vote, i bought one of these to replace an aging linksys access point in our office, signal strength is excellent.

you may also want to consider something like this:

http://ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=46594&vpn=DWL%2D3200AP&manufacture=D %2DLink

Basically a cisco aironet knockoff.

edit: the d-link isn't 802.11N though, and it may be PoE only, which would mean you'd have to buy a PoE injector as well. The cisco(linksys) one above is PoE but also comes with a regular power adapter.