[OT] - Request help with wireless LAN.

[dogscoff]

thanks Geo, it looks like they sell internationally as well. I'll wait until I get the modem through and get used to it, then I might be buying me a router.

[Fyron]

From everything I have heard, D-Link makes some rather poor quality wireless routers that have a tendancy to drop connections. Go with a different brand.

[rdouglass]

Well, you're absolutely not going to get top shelf for $20. You do get what you pay for. We're talking basic connectivity here and mine (D-link router) has been pleasantly reliable at home.

At work in a business environment, I use different products altogether - $170 per access point, but great product and you get 11 Mb throughout it's advertised range; even with metal studs in the building.

I'm just trying to suggest appropriate product for a home environment. And I know firsthand that D-link has a very easy (practically plug it in and turn it on) setup for simple home use with an adequate firewall to boot. Price doesn't sting either....

[geoschmo]

PBW server has been running on a D-Link wireless access point pretty much flawlessly for almost two years.

[ March 06, 2004, 02:25: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

[Fyron]

Guess you have been lucky then.

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Guess you have been lucky then.

Well, I don't do much fancy with it. The conventional wisdom about D-Link is that it's actually pretty reliable, stable and easy to setup out of the box, as long as you don't try doing any kind of non-standard setup. I've seen a lot of complaints though about it from people trying to do oddball setups. Apparently once you start changing things it stops being user-friendly real quick.

[Fyron]

Well if it starts acting screwy if you try to change the settings, then there would seem to be something wrong with it.