<OT> Recommendations

[Collins Richey]

On 5/15/05, A. Khattri <ajai at bway.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 14 May 2005, Rick Sivernell wrote:
> 
> >    I need a new router with wireless, the lan is 100 but I gave 2.54g 802.11g  on
> > my laptop. Anyone use either of these. My last wireless router is a D-Link and I
> > will not buy from D-Link again. Router just a year old & out of warrenty and then
> > goes bad. Not the 1st D-Link that has done that to me.
> 
> Ive had solid reliable networking with Netgear equipment - highly
> recommended. If you already have a wired LAN, then you could also try the
> Netgear wireless bridge.
> 

It remains to be seen what lifetime I get, but a friend just gave me a
Linksys WRT54G. I've got it working with a WEP 128 bit key on the
windows side of my laptop, and it works in the baement as well, but I
haven't finished up the ndiswrapper stuff to make it come alive on
Linux yet.

This isn't going to be a 24x7-on part of my LAN. I'm just running it
off one of the wired ports to my hardwire router. Even with WEP, I
don't trust these beasts as far as you can throw them. I'll turn it on
when my daughter wants to bring up her laptop in the basement, but
that's about all.

As for the comments on Netgear, my hardwired router (5 years in
service?) is Netgear, and mosf of my NICs over the years were Netgear,
so I am a fan of Netgear.

-- 
 Collins
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