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Wireless Access Point?
Legoman05
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So I have a cheap-ass Linksys WRT54Gv4. It's so shit I can't even put the full version of DDWRT on it, and since i cut a deal with my neighbors to share internet, it's dropping connections like crazy. Typically handling 14-15 connections at once, and dying.
I'm tired of not being able to get the internet in my own house, so I'm looking for an industrial strength wireless access point, probably in the sub $250 range.
I thought that at that price, I could probably get an apple airport extreme, as well as an airport express for downstairs, use WDS to bridge them, and have the side benefit of being able to stream music easily through itunes. It'd also be print sharing and NAS.
However, if I could take that 250 and get a far better and more robust access point, that'd be preferred too.
Anyone have any suggestions?
I'm tired of not being able to get the internet in my own house, so I'm looking for an industrial strength wireless access point, probably in the sub $250 range.
I thought that at that price, I could probably get an apple airport extreme, as well as an airport express for downstairs, use WDS to bridge them, and have the side benefit of being able to stream music easily through itunes. It'd also be print sharing and NAS.
However, if I could take that 250 and get a far better and more robust access point, that'd be preferred too.
Anyone have any suggestions?
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Paid $100 for it at the time, and it was worth every penny. Situated in the basement at work, covers around 6000 square feet of area on both floors with no problem. It has 7 wired (using a 4 port switch) and 6 wireless devices connected at any time, has not once dropped a connection. It's also DD-WRT compatible.
Yeah, full version includes a bunch of stuff no one normal would really use anyway.
Though honestly the only thing I install DD-WRT on my WRT-54G v3 for is static DHCP leases and lowering the connection time-out so that running a torrent doesn't gradually kill it. Doesn't seem to affect performance one way or another, and sometimes it seems to get hung up for many seconds at a time, particularly when streaming online video.
An Airport Extreme is a very good buy, though I have not tried using it under that kind of load. I bought one for my town's library that I do IT for off and on, and have had no complaints. My dad, who does IT as an actual job at public schools, likes to get Airports whenever possible because they are actually more cost-effective than repeaters and can be configured in most of the ways that are important for a very large network.
I bought an Engenius EOC 1650 at MicroCenter (local store) for 50 bucks. Big ass antenna. Perfect signal upstairs, shitty signal downstairs.
Fuck this house.
I could either:
1) Turn my old computer into a linux router, use this access point's WDS to bounce a signal down to an airport extreme downstairs...
Cost: 80 + 50 + 3-5 hours fucking around
2) Flash my WRT54g v6 with DD-WRT micro, hope that gives me WDS, and then buy an airport extreme for downstairs:
Cost: 80 + 3-5 hours fucking around
3) Take this access point back, buy an airport extreme and an airport express, and just use that.
Cost: 240, and 0 hours fucking around.
At this point, opportunity cost looks like I should just pony up the cash.
Doing so did actually improve the reception upstairs, with my router downstairs.