<OT> Recommendations

[Net Llama!]

On 05/15/2005 06:21 PM, Collins Richey wrote:
> 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.

Just to throw another voice into the wind, i've used a little of 
everything over the past few years:
* Belkin wifi (802.11b) router for the past 3 years without a single problem
* Netgear 10/100 10 port switch for the past 4 years without a single 
problem
* Linksys 802.11b pcmcia card for the past 2 years without a single problem
* D-Link 802.11b PCI card for the past month.  Too soon to tell how well 
it holds up, but getting it working with ndiswrapper for FC3 was 
surprisingly easy.
* Two Cisco Aeronet 802.11b wifi pcmcia cards for the past 3 years 
without a single problem

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