Fed up with poor wireless kit

KPeh

KPeh

KPeh

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Why are current wireless systems so unreliable? In both my student house, and at home using different kit there always seem to be problems. I'm fed up with my Linksys WAP54G which despite the signal strength just can't keep a connection, and is pretty arbitrary on whether you can get connected one day to the next. Even my Macbook is having problems with it.

Are there any decent wireless access points (or even adsl routers about)? Or do they all suffer from these sorts of problems? How about the NETGEAR WPN802 RangeMax - or is it all hype? Or should I replace my otherwise rather good Netgear (non wireless) ADSL router (which the Linksys was plugged into) with one that manages wireless, and well? If there is such a thing...

Thanks people...
 
Can't say I've ever had a problem with my WRT54GS v1.1 running Sveasoft Talisman/Basic, which is ancient (as opposed to the current GS, which is lobotomised). To get any gain from the Rangemax router, you'd need to be using Rangemax wireless cards too.

There are dozens of wireless ADSL routers.
 
Linksys make great hardware but they suck like a dyson in a black hole when it comes to the firmware.
I kept on having connection issues with my WRT54GL router, I bought a set of uprated antennas thinking that would help, it improved the signal strength but it still kept on dropping the connections.
I thought it was the laptops, I tried them on my uncles wifi network and they worked great.
Then I replaced the Linksys firmware with DD-WRT and finally settled on Tomato, not had a single problem since.
 
Thanks for that post Bloody! I've replaced the firmware with DD-WRT (although not entirely without hitches) and it looks promising so far :).
 
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