- Oct 18, 2004
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My younger brother is off to college now. The college dorm supplied him with a NON wireless router. Both him and his roommate are on laptops with wireless G. So i'm going to take this chance to upgrade my home wireless and give him my home wireless router. Because they wont take advantage of the N network/speeds and i should soon. I see it as a good time to upgrade.
I have vonage so i'm forced to run the linksys router they supplied me which is a WRTP54G, it doesn't have enough signal strength to power the whole house/garage when placed in the middle. What i did was i placed that in the rear of the house, hardwire bridged ( i think thats what its called, basiclly i ran a cat5 from the one of the router's 4 ports and plugged it into another's router source ) The 2nd router is a linksys WRT54g with the DD-WRT and i placed that in the front which covers the front and basement. This setup was really cheap because all i needed was a 20feet cat5 cable since i had everything else. So the whole house, basement and garage has decent wifi.
I'm now looking to replace my WRT54g and go with a N router for the future. I need a 2.4ghz/ 5ghz one because most likely i'll need to remain 2.4ghz G for the randomly stuff like my nexus one, ps3, laptops but my desktop i'll get a N usb adapter. I'm looking for a more basic router. something strong enough to get to the basement when router is on the 1st floor. Budget range is $75-100. Would love linksys since i never had any issues but i know they are on the high side of the mainline market. I like external antennas a lot. Anyone have suggestions.
I dont do anything else like wireless printing. I'm a basic user.
I was looking at WRT160N for $50, looks like DDWRT works
http://www.amazon.com/Cisco-Linksys-...dp_ob_title_ce
But i remember hearing that these new things aren't that good anymore.
ASUS N16 keeps coming up too
I have vonage so i'm forced to run the linksys router they supplied me which is a WRTP54G, it doesn't have enough signal strength to power the whole house/garage when placed in the middle. What i did was i placed that in the rear of the house, hardwire bridged ( i think thats what its called, basiclly i ran a cat5 from the one of the router's 4 ports and plugged it into another's router source ) The 2nd router is a linksys WRT54g with the DD-WRT and i placed that in the front which covers the front and basement. This setup was really cheap because all i needed was a 20feet cat5 cable since i had everything else. So the whole house, basement and garage has decent wifi.
I'm now looking to replace my WRT54g and go with a N router for the future. I need a 2.4ghz/ 5ghz one because most likely i'll need to remain 2.4ghz G for the randomly stuff like my nexus one, ps3, laptops but my desktop i'll get a N usb adapter. I'm looking for a more basic router. something strong enough to get to the basement when router is on the 1st floor. Budget range is $75-100. Would love linksys since i never had any issues but i know they are on the high side of the mainline market. I like external antennas a lot. Anyone have suggestions.
I dont do anything else like wireless printing. I'm a basic user.
I was looking at WRT160N for $50, looks like DDWRT works
http://www.amazon.com/Cisco-Linksys-...dp_ob_title_ce
But i remember hearing that these new things aren't that good anymore.
ASUS N16 keeps coming up too
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