Moving to plus net fibre - what wifi router

Matt_Hirst

Matt_Hirst

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Moved to a new house and just signed up for plusnet fibre, what would people recommend a s a good wifi router, currently have a billion 7800n and a number of rooms at the old house had underfloor cabling.

Now the wife has said she does not want cabling so any solution has to be completely wireless so what is currently the best router for me, cost not really an issue but would like to pay no more than £150.

regards,

Matt
 
Thanks will have a look for that, will need some half height network cards for a couple of servers and a full height one for my desktop pc - any recommendations on those?

Matt
 
Matt_Hirst said:
Thanks will have a look for that, will need some half height network cards for a couple of servers and a full height one for my desktop pc - any recommendations on those?

Matt
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I would have recommended Atheros. They were one of the best cards and chipsets for Linux for years. But I'm having nothing but problems with Atheros and the Ath9k drivers on Linux at the minute. I've tried three different cards the past week.

TP-Link TL-WDN3800
TP-Link TL-WN851ND
D-Link DWA-547 Rev 3

All these are using Atheros AR9xxx chipsets of some sort and not a single one of them works out of the box with Linux right now for me. Maybe it's a regression in the Kernel drivers... who knows. I did, once upon a time have a D-Link DWA-547 Rev 1, which used an Atheros 5 series chip which worked out of the box and was flawless, but I put it in a machine I donated to a local charity (which is why I ordered another one, only to find Rev 3 switched chipsets). The three cards above however all work with the Windows drivers with no problems for me (I'm using the WDN3800 on Windows right now). So if your servers and desktop are running Windows, it shouldn't be a problem with those three. It's just a pain in the ass for me since I run Linux. I have one more wireless card in the post, the Asus PCE-N15 which uses a Ralink chipset and I'll be testing that when it arrives tomorrow. If it works OOB with Linux I will be extremely surprised as back in the day, the entire reason I moved to Atheros was because of how bad Ralink and Broadcom drivers were.

If you're running a FreeNAS system, you might also have problems with anything using the AR9xxx chipsets as Ath support (and wireless in general) on FreeBSD is even worse than Linux. Which is why if this Asus card arrives and works, I'll be donating the three cards listed above to the FreeBSD foundation (specifically Adrian Chadd who seems to be the FreeBSD Atheros guru).
 
Thanks for the advice, have ordered a Asus network card to try out, will do the router upgrade once I have the fibre installed.


Thanks for everyone's help.


regards,

Matt
 
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