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From: Peter Pan on 23 Apr 2010 00:32 "Joel" <Joel(a)NoSpam.com> wrote in message news:7s32t5hir87m98i689unebi7dbr5ndos36(a)4ax.com... > > Arggg.. right now I am looking for the information about Linksys WRT160N, > and now looking for info about the current latest generation E1000 or > E2000. > And I hope I will be able to keep up with newer technology. My suggestion is just get whatever is cheap, easy, quick, and fits your needs.... personally, i'd just get something cheap from a local place with a good refund policy (like walmart), come home plug it in, follow the instructs, and viola, in a few minutes you'll have it up and running Anything concerning consumer electronics changes fairly often.... anything like changing ip addresses/using different firmware/etc is for people like me with no life, enjoy your grandkids, and let us worry about the techie stuff
From: atec7 7 ""atec77 " on 21 Apr 2010 04:19 Joel wrote: > atec7 7 <""atec77 \"@ hotmail.com"> wrote: > >> AnthonyL wrote: >>> Further to my recent posting of "Wireless connection driving me crazy" >>> my supplier has special offers on: >>> >>> Linksys by Cisco WAG120N Wireless N150 ADSL Modem Router >>> NETGEAR DG834G v5 Wireless-G ADSL Modem Router >>> >>> This is small office/home use, 2 or 3 connections. Max broadband >>> speed available is 1Mb/s. >>> >>> I'll be buying two units, one will be primarily a router and the other >>> will primarily be an AP, but it suits for redundancy purposes to have >>> two identical units. >>> >>> Any opinions of which one's to go for? Should I be concerned at the >>> lack of external aerial on the Linksys? I primarily want reliability >>> of connection. >>> >>> Many thanks >>> >> Buffalo if you can find one >> comes with wrt std > > May be other Buffalo but I don't think I can recommend my Buffalo. My > Buffalo works pretty well, no problem with connecting to any remoted system. > But the only problem that it can only be able to connect to SINGLE wireless > system. Does it run the wrt ? upgrading on the new ones is not required I know this because the house wireless cctv system runs 6 cams through one
From: atec7 7 ""atec77 " on 21 Apr 2010 04:20 Joel wrote: > Char Jackson <none(a)none.invalid> wrote: > >> On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:22:40 -0500, Joel <Joel(a)NoSpam.com> wrote: >> >>> atec7 7 <""atec77 \"@ hotmail.com"> wrote: >>> >>>> AnthonyL wrote: >>>>> Further to my recent posting of "Wireless connection driving me crazy" >>>>> my supplier has special offers on: >>>>> >>>>> Linksys by Cisco WAG120N Wireless N150 ADSL Modem Router >>>>> NETGEAR DG834G v5 Wireless-G ADSL Modem Router >>>>> >>>>> This is small office/home use, 2 or 3 connections. Max broadband >>>>> speed available is 1Mb/s. >>>>> >>>>> I'll be buying two units, one will be primarily a router and the other >>>>> will primarily be an AP, but it suits for redundancy purposes to have >>>>> two identical units. >>>>> >>>>> Any opinions of which one's to go for? Should I be concerned at the >>>>> lack of external aerial on the Linksys? I primarily want reliability >>>>> of connection. >>>>> >>>>> Many thanks >>>>> >>>> Buffalo if you can find one >>>> comes with wrt std >>> May be other Buffalo but I don't think I can recommend my Buffalo. My >>> Buffalo works pretty well, no problem with connecting to any remoted system. >>> But the only problem that it can only be able to connect to SINGLE wireless >>> system. >> You're *still* having that problem? > > Yup! I still have the same problem from day one which was some years ago. > I am thinking about replacing it with the LinkSys WRT160N then I read quite > afew people saying that Linksys firmware is so bad, and recommand using the > 3rd party firmware etc.. > > And I don't know much about wireless router, or I don't know anything > about 3rd party firmware so I still stuck with the Buffalo. Then add the newer wrt or tomato and fix it > > My question would be is it Linksys WRT160N ok with the default firmware? > If I have to replace with 3rd party firmware then how difficult? I do > upgrade firmware on other hardware like DSLR camera, cellphone, GPS etc.. > but don't have much idea about the wireless router. > > Summer is coming soon, some of my grandkids from different states and > country (one of mine is studying oversea for Master degree) will come to > stay with us for few weeks.
From: Peter Pan on 21 Apr 2010 04:53 "AnthonyL" <nospam(a)please.invalid> wrote in message news:4bcd853e.5644859(a)news.zen.co.uk... > Further to my recent posting of "Wireless connection driving me crazy" > my supplier has special offers on: > > Linksys by Cisco WAG120N Wireless N150 ADSL Modem Router > NETGEAR DG834G v5 Wireless-G ADSL Modem Router > > This is small office/home use, 2 or 3 connections. Max broadband > speed available is 1Mb/s. > > I'll be buying two units, one will be primarily a router and the other > will primarily be an AP, but it suits for redundancy purposes to have > two identical units. > > Any opinions of which one's to go for? Should I be concerned at the > lack of external aerial on the Linksys? I primarily want reliability > of connection. > > Many thanks > > -- > AnthonyL if you just want something that works, dont you already have a dsl modem with an ethernet port? why do you need another dsl modem? first look for wap's (combo ap and router in the same box) instead of wag's, and just look for which is on sale/cheapest/available locally (i ended up with a linksys cuz they sell em at walmart/can get another in a few minutes), plugs into either my dsl modem or cable modem or sat receiver or voip box ((all have ethernet ports)), and theres a walmart a few blocks away)
From: Peter Pan on 21 Apr 2010 05:21
"Joel" <Joel(a)NoSpam.com> wrote in message news:kfmss5ts9r6l8vaka6hjsie0flha99fc6t(a)4ax.com... > > Yup! I still have the same problem from day one which was some years ago. > I am thinking about replacing it with the LinkSys WRT160N then I read > quite > afew people saying that Linksys firmware is so bad, and recommand using > the > 3rd party firmware etc.. > > And I don't know much about wireless router, or I don't know anything > about 3rd party firmware so I still stuck with the Buffalo. > > My question would be is it Linksys WRT160N ok with the default firmware? > If I have to replace with 3rd party firmware then how difficult? I do > upgrade firmware on other hardware like DSLR camera, cellphone, GPS etc.. > but don't have much idea about the wireless router. > > Summer is coming soon, some of my grandkids from different states and > country (one of mine is studying oversea for Master degree) will come to > stay with us for few weeks. have no clue why you would even want the alternate firmware, but have had several previous models over the past few years and now a 160, works great with all 6 of my puters, 3 tivos, ipod, tablet, pda, powerline network etc... , and did right out of the box, never used the alternate firmware, no problems, and even recovers nicely after a power failure tried a buffalo once, it died, and happened to be when they weren't selling em in the us, then i found they have netgear and linksys stuff at walmart ps linksys wrt160n at walmart is about $69 http://www.walmart.com/ip/Linksys-WRT160N-Wireless-N-Ultra-RangePlus-Broadband-Router/8466730 ooops... it's $69.82 forgot the 82 cents |