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Airlink 504

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I was in the market for a good router. I don't need wireless yet because my G router used as an access point works just fine. But my Linksys rpt302 (something like that) was choking all over the place. After reading some reviews I found the Airlink 504 to be just what I needed (see link). It offered great performance for price. The throughput is out of this world. Nice product for the price.

http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/component/option,com_chart/Itemid,189/
 
I have a problem with the table in your link.

If you notice, two of the most popular Routers among enthusiasts are not on the list (I am relating to the Buffalo 802.11b/g Routers).

Why it is so I can only speculate. I do not think that the authors buy the Routers, in most cases he gets them as Evaluation units.

Buffalo probably preferred to send their preN units for evaluation and did not send the High-Power 802.11b/g.

As a side note, the Buffalo preN units are not a good buy they do not perform well.

I am not saying that the Airlink is good or bad, frankly do not know, abd I look very carefully with a ?Huge Grain of Salt? on reviews in commercial sites.


 
JackMDS - Are you looking for Wireless Range/Performance? If so, these are not benchmarked and is not what I'm referring too. It's the performance of the routing I'm looking at. Throughput from WAN (internet) to LAN, LAN to WAN (internet), Total Simultaneous Throughput and Maximum Simultaneous Throughput. This is the raw power of the router itself. Not how the Wireless performs or other options.
 
I've had the router setup for 3 days now. Running smooth. My pings have gone down. Two examples: CSS was at 37-40 pings all the time. Last night a rock solid 27ms ping. BF2142 would always kick me out of a server once or twice before I could connect for a bit. Last night a solid connection without disconnects for over an hour.

Tomorrow is going to be a good test. I work from home then and will have a VPN connection established, many conference calls, queued up downloads running on my other rig and the daugther on her rig. No I'll not game during this because I'll be working. However I might just launch a game to try : )
 
It passed flying colors yesterday and today. I had heavy traffic going on in my house that caused the old router to hiccup!

I'm a happy customer of this cheap router!
-JC
 
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