Lost my Linksys wireless router last night. It just died all of a sudden. There seems to be no life for me after midnight without the Internet.
Although I could have wired direct to get a connection, I couldn’t be bothered for it was already 01:30 hours. I used to do some more reading on the net by the bed before just bed time but I fell asleep just as easily last night without the Net. Just a little unsettling that’s all. Perhaps it’s better without it.
Well, the Linksys worked well with the PB17 and the wired PC desktop, but the Fujitsu notebook with its built-in wi-fi has been dropping the line every so often. Not sure which end has the problem, but my cousin’s Linksys with her HP notebook and Dell desktop with a Linksys USB wi-fi connection are both acting up ever since the beginning with her router. Again my PB17 worked well there. It seems to be a client end problem but it beats me why there are so many failings in different brands and type of clients’ connection.
Have to get a new router, but which? Buffalo and Belkin are said to use the same chip as Linksys’. ZyXel might be better but at almost 50% higher price, I am reluctant to try. Surecom, Sercom, PCI, and Plenex all looks the same, and my Sercom wired router was even slower than my wi-fi Linksys in wireless mode! Level One – don’t get none. That leaves ASUS, Netgear and whatever.
Might have to bite the bullet and go for the ZyXel.
My Planex/PCI doesn’t do WDS fullstop. Despite having a metal case, I suspect that it overheats (doing some tests here). I put it on w/o attaching it to my network, have the Tibook running KisMAC http://www.binaervarianz.de/projekte/programmieren/kismac/ and was surprised that it seemed to be screaming at the top of its voice for no good reasons, which I am going to investigate further. It’s cheap (package comes w/ high gain antenna) alright, but you get what you pay for.
Keep post your decision on the wireless router. I want to set a wireless lan at home as well.