Wireless Router Questions???
batmon
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Any suggestions on some Routers that are efficient. I guess ill be downloading music/checkin video.Cablevision is gonna provide me w/ their "5X" superspeed bullshit. School a newbie. The tech kid in tha store told me that NETGEAR should be fine. Its around 80+ eagles.The next one up in around $100 Eagels.Skhool Mee pleez.
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I have the Extreme and set up is easy as hell. Express has some other benefits, too.
I did a lot of homework on wireless routers before I got my MacBook and came right back to where I started.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833124010
and im not on some hacker stezz either.
$43 is a good price on that, too. Throw DD-WRT firmware on there, and you're good.
Airport Express for $180.
Pros: Like most Linksys products, works right out of the box. Under normal circumstances, provides a reliable network in most homes. Easy and intuitive web-based maintenance.
Cons: Had to send a signal out to my garage, so I went to replace the antennas with a set of high gain omnidirectionals and low and behold, they AREN'T REPLACEABLE ANYMORE!!! So either Linksys got cheap (in which case, I'm done recommending their routers) or the lawyers got involved because too many people were using high gain CANTENNAS and they're avoiding a lawsuit (in which case, I'm done recommending their routers). Stay away from Version 8 and later of this product. Version 7.X and earlier are still awesome.
Other Thoughts: If you need to expand the size of your wireless footprint a little bit because of a weak signal, stay away from Linksys. Go with a Netgear or DLink with a high gain antenna.[/b]
Explain this.
The only problem with Airport Express right now is:
No one has them, I have had them back ordered for a couple months now!
Probably a new version coming soon hopefully!
The other solid bet is the Linksys, we have good luck with them...
Not a big fan of Netgear...
Zeb
Because??
This was the one i was lookin at.
no Airport EXTREME is $180, Airport Express is $99. it's a dope little router too, I have one and like it a lot, got both macs and my girls pc on it.
Yes, yes and yes. You don't need expensive shit Batmon. I've been using the WRT54G with both my Macs with no problemos. The company I work for uses them as access points in their stores all over the country and I never hear any complaints.
Ditto on WRT54G.
Unless you really care about that itunes-to-stereo option, no reason to pay the premium for the Apple one.
N is a waste unless you're doing a lot of HD streaming between computers on your own network or something like that.
If you need more security options than disabling broadcasting ID name + WPA-AES encryption (pretty much standard on all routers these days), then you probably shouldn't be using a wireless router to begin with.
Just so I'm clear, the Airport Express requires a separate modem, right? I just got a place with the lady and she has one that she hasn't actually used. We may just use my Linksys router, but I've had WEP encryption issues with that in the past (using OS X). We both have Macs so I'm thinking the Airport Express would just make everything run smoother.
This isn't really a concern right??
While I recommended the Linksys as a good and inexpensive solution, Airport Express/Extreme definitely gets a thumbs up too.
I don't own one myself, but I'm in charge of the network in our building, so I help out all my neighbors with their Wi-Fi. Quite a few of them use the Express and I've found it to be very reliable and easy to set up. Apple's products are just so well thought out. And design-wise it's much prettier than units like the Linksys (which is ugly as hell), if that's a concern.
If you were gonna spend +$80 anyway, yeah, Express might be the thing.
Thanx
I know when my old room mate moved out and I had to get the internet transferred to my name they sent me a modem (that I had to buy- $99 bucks I think) and Void informed me that the linksy we were using wasn't even needed or plugged in anymore because the new modem had the router in it already.
Extreme cosine.
Please to learn me on this.....
This is via Wikipedia:
Works good, and reliably.
Tried to mod it with third party antennas, cause he was getting a low signal in his garage, didn't work.
If you need something for a larger area of coverage, buy something more expensive with different antennas.
I'm constantly reccomending the wrt54g's and it's what I use.
- spidey
copped
Yeah, the hackin' community has really done wonders with this router. If ur into messing around, it's the way to go.
I have a Dlink 655 that I'm really liking. If ur ever planing into doing any major streaming in the future (HD) make sure you get something with 802.11n.
Apple people - Apple just dropped new AirPort Express With 802.11n!
http://gizmodo.com/368573/official-apple-updates-99-airport-express-to-wireless-n
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