Advice For Building An N Network?

[ViRGE]

Now that 802.11n has been finalized, I'm looking to rebuild my home network and am looking for advice in setup and part selection.

For the wireless part, I'm currently running a WRT54G w/DD-WRT as my main router, with a hacked up Netgear sitting in my living room as a wireless bridge for my HTPC and a couple other things. I'd like to replace this with a pair of N devices; a high-end GigE DD-WRT capable router at the headend, and then some kind of N-device in the living room as a bridge.

Furthermore for the headend router I'd like to get something with a pair of radios so that I can use 2.4GHz and 5GHz simultaneously. On 5GHz I would run a bonded (40MHz) N network for the living room and any N devices I acquire, and on 2.4GHz I would run a normal G network for my legacy devices.

For the bridge in the living room, all I really need is a device that can operate as a bridge and handle N at 5GHz. It doesn't even have to be GigE since I can't imagine I'm actually going to get more than 100Mbps out of the N network.

So with this in mind, I have two questions:

1) Can I do everything that I've listed above? From what I've been reading, it sounds like I can.

2) What hardware should I be looking for? Bear in mind that the headend router needs to be able to run DD-WRT.

TIA.🙂

 

[ccbadd]

I think the only one that is stable right now that fits your needs would be the Linksys WRT610. The WRT400 would be great, but it still has some bugs with the 5ghz radio.

 

[JackMDS]

If what you have works OK I would leave it as is.

While there is a Final 802.11n standard the devices that are sold are mainly Draft_N and there is variety of "Kinks" in them.



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[ViRGE]

It doesn't really work okay, and that's why I want to replace it. Among other I have to use WEP for the current bridge and I need to replace my router so that I can get Comcast's faster internet services, as at this point I'm running in to the throughput limits of a WRT54G.