[plug] OT - Wireless, again

[Patrick Tehvand]

Kai Jones wrote:
> Hi guys and girls,
> 
> It's been some time since discussions about wireless and since then I've 
> done a bit of research and had a look around. Following Onno's advice I 
> was preparing to buy the D-Link products but I had a word to some people 
> at the North West Expo on the weekend and they're recommending Linksys 
> equipment, it might be a bit more expensive but apparently it's better 
> quality and since LinkSys is owned by Cisco that should be pretty sweet.
> 
> I'm currently reading up on Linksys' G-band wireless equipment, I'm not 
> too much up with wireless frequencies but they say G-band works in the 
> same frequency as B-band so they're compatible if we had any existing 
> wireless equipment (which we don't) but anyway....
> 
> Any comments and feedback are welcome
> Thanks
> 
> Kai
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At work we have a mixture of wireless points on trial at the moment; 
linksys WRT54G wireless router, netgear wg602, cisco aironet 11 and 
various wireless cards, apple airport/extreme, belkin, netgear, and a 
centrino ?intel on one of the teachers machines.

While the cisco aironet is really nice, the price tag (even with 
education discount) is still pretty hefty. I have found the Linksys to 
be the best in terms of range and quality of signal (out of the non 
cisco pair) and have had issues initially with the netgear when 
communicating with our apples.

So in order of preference I would pick Cisco, Linksys then netgear.

We havent looked at D_Link but I hear really good things about them from 
a couple of friends who use them at home.

cheers
Patrick Tehvand