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Need suggestion for a Powerful Wireless AP/Router

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Duwelon

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Two of my friends recently built a new house that's fairly big. Him and his wife run a trucking company and they both run it from their home, so their new house also includes their office.

Let's say for a budget of around $500, what is the most powerful draft-N access point that they could buy? I plan on setting it up so they use their router in their office and place this access point in some central location of their house with a cat6 cable to their router.

Here's the main requirements, anything else is just a bonus:

1) High Range
2) WPA2 and Draft-N support

Anyone have experience with this?
 
There is No thing like this in this range of price.

The proffessional devices in this range are Proxim, and they are smart tehy do not do Draft network equipment, they only Drink Draft. 😉.

WIFI is Not Gaming Computer, you do not put a Huge transmitter to cover a big place.

You create a Network of few Access Point each one covers part of the Estate.
 
Originally posted by: JackMDS
There is No thing like this in this range of price.

The proffessional devices in this range are Proxim, and they are smart tehy do not do Draft network equipment, they only Drink Draft. 😉.

WIFI is Not Gaming Computer, you do not put a Huge transmitter to cover a big place.

You create a Network of few Access Point each one covers part of the Estate.
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Lets say I set up 2 access points, can any ol' access points be set up so that when the user goes from AP 1 towards AP 2, the wifi card and wireless network seamlessly transitions to AP 2 without dropping the signal and reconnecting?

In other words, if a user is roaming around the house with a laptop, will the wifi card automatically be talking to the AP with the best signal or will the user have to drop their connection and reconnect to a closer AP? i've heard of this but I don't know if the cheap wireless AP's can do this kind of wifi (or if there is a spec or standard I should look for when shopping for AP's)
 
Did you happen to see the views for that particular AP? If this is for business purposes and they need reliability and long range, your talking multiple AP's probably $350-$800 each. Think Proxim. Though I have had good luck as well with 3com AP's
 
The reviews on that device is horrible. It seems to drop connections and reboot often at 3 minutes a reboot. I believe 802.11F / IAPP that is listed in the manual to support roaming will require a RADIUS server to handle the authentication keys. They might have it built in, but I have no experience with this Linksys device.
 
you could always try ebay and some used cisco 1232 access points. They're not draft N but they would do the job and roaming would be completely seamless, just make sure you get cards that support CCX.
 
My solution was to buy a couple of refurb Netgear WRN834Bs (I think that's the model number), flash them with DD-WRT, set them up in a WDS mesh network, and enable WPA-AES (WPA2-PSK). I really haven't tested the roaming bit significantly though, since my two WDS nodes are in rooms next to each other. I just needed to connect two wired LANs together wirelessly.

 
You can extend the range on just about every wifi device by just changing out the antenna.
The antenna that comes with most consumer devices is really poor.

With the right antenna you can have all the power you need to cover an entire home or even a block of homes with just a single router 🙂


 
I think that Most people do not get it.

There is variety of problems (both technical and political) with Draft-N and it implementation that why its is Not a standard.

The devices are available on the Entry Level market because it is like SubPrime Mortgage. I.e. it is easy to sell to ignorant something even if it is Not the right thing to do.

If you want, countable system for moderate price gets Proxim Access Point.

http://www.proxim.com/products/ap_700/
 
Originally posted by: JackMDS
I think that Most people do not get it.

There is variety of problems (both technical and political) with Draft-N and it implementation that why its is Not a standard.

The devices are available on the Entry Level market because it is like SubPrime Mortgage. I.e. it is easy to sell to ignorant something even if it is Not the right thing to do.

If you want, countable system for moderate price gets Proxim Access Point.

http://www.proxim.com/products/ap_700/
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They have 3 computers at present in the same office, so their wireless is going to be limited to personal use when they're not working in the office. As long as I can turn on WPA2 with a strong key and it's a reliable connection, they'll be happy with a/g, draft-n or miller genuine draft.
 
Originally posted by: JackMDS
I think that Most people do not get it.

There is variety of problems (both technical and political) with Draft-N and it implementation that why its is Not a standard.

The devices are available on the Entry Level market because it is like SubPrime Mortgage. I.e. it is easy to sell to ignorant something even if it is Not the right thing to do.

If you want, countable system for moderate price gets Proxim Access Point.

http://www.proxim.com/products/ap_700/
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This is 100% correct. The thing that sucks most is that no standard means that compatibility between brands may suck....not only that, but compattibility with in its brand may suck as the N standard becomes more mainstream.

They are pretty nuch having people pay to beta test Draft N.
 
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