Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]advice for a wireless router

[brullo nulla]

On 10/29/07, Ophidian <ophidian@×××××××××××××××.net> wrote:

> > In the area of wired switches, I have found that technology has matured
> > and you get pretty much the same performance (100% bandwith) from any
> > switch (I paid $12 for some of my switches).   I wouldn't necessarily
> > recommend it for enterprise-level switching (on the other hand, I also
> > plan to use it for some later this year).
> >
> > However, I don't know whether this applies to wireless.  I bought a
> > dirt-cheap Belkin AP a few years ago and found it adequate, but the
> > configuration paradigm was bundled (windoze-only) software.
>
> The one gotcha with the different brands is that some of them use
> cheaper parts that can't handle as many connections/open ports and can
> thus get overloaded.  You most often see this sort of behaviour with
> Bittorrent, but I've also done it to a switch when I had a bookmark
> folder of 15ish links (webcomics) and clicked "Open In Tabs" in Firefox.
>
> It tends to be hit or miss.  Previously, Netgear has had a good
> reputation, but my only experience with their wireless routers has been
> poor, with the one my girlfriend got (sadly at my suggestion) flaking
> out pretty severely whenever a P2P application looked at it funny or an
> app like Adium/Pidgin opened too many ports when connecting.  The
> solution was always to unplug/replug to force it to reboot.
>
> One decent resource to steer you in the right direction may be
> http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/Bad_routers.  Note however that
> when it lists the Linksys stuff, that's for the stock firmware, a number
> of them can run custom stuff like dd-wrt.

I think I will settle for this:
Linksys Gateway Wireless Wrt54g

Let me know...

m.
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