Router recommendations

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Jul 06, 2010, Richard Kreiss wrote:
>Top Post:
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>I have been using Linksys routers for quite a while.  Last year I replaced
>my older g router with a new WRT110 range plus n-router.  Used it for about
>1 year.  Soon after getting my new Thinkpad, in May, the router failed.  I
>replaced it with a dual band gigabit Linksys router which works just fine.

I have seen a fair number of failures of LinkSys routers,
generally after 18 months or so of use.

We generally use Netgear routers and wireless access points, and
have never had problems with them.

On a slightly related note, a couple of weeks ago we used
Netgear's XAVB101 Powerline adapters in a large warehouse where
we needed to get networking into an office where wiring would
have been pretty expensive and wireless wasn't an option.  They
work well enough, particularly as they cost under $150 while
having somebody wire the office would have been closer to a
grand.  Installation was basically, plug in the units to a wall
outlet and a network switch at each end, and they just worked.

We have one client with five offices in two states where we're
using small CentOS Linux boxes with Atom processors using OpenVPN
to cross connect the office's private LANS.  They are using
Windows remote desktop over these networks via T1 connections,
and the performance is quite acceptable (not as good as their
*nix FilePro of course :-).  The Windows software vendor wanted
to install $2,500 Cisco routers at each office, and these systems
cost them less than half that installed and configured.

Bill
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