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Zadeva: Re: [OS2Wireless] Wireless router
Datum: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 02:08:40 -0400
Za: "OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>

Just as a point of reference, touching on Lewis's lack of experience with DLink wireless routers:  When I needed to go wireless due to the location of the router relative to where my system was at my nephew kindly purchased for me a DLink rather than LinkSys router, which is the brand I've used to great success in the past.  Not wanting to hurt his feelings and come off as a jerk, something which I do enough of :-)

I was a tad leery at first since my wired LinkSys router ran flawlessly, but after setting up the DLink I've never had the need to touch it again.  And it is on and operational 24/7 for going on nearly two-years now.  Which IMO isn't too bad at all.

Sometimes I think it is *where* the router is located that cause so many failures - meaning people I know tend to bury them with paper and books and disks and so on.  Not having sufficient air-flow then causes them to overheat and die as Lewis states.

Just wanted to toss this out there ...

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Lewis G Rosenthal <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> wrote:
Hey...

On 03/24/10 10:32 am, Neil Waldhauer thus wrote :

I've been using a Linksys wireless router, a WRT54G with firmware version
v8.00.0. It's worked for years, but lately, it has been stopping, and I've
needed to unplug it, count to 10, replug it to get my line working again.

Last November, we had a short discussion on this list about this router, and
how it slowly cooked itself to death. Is is reasonable to assume that my router
is "done". If so, what is a similar router good for and eCS user? I'd like to
get a cheap, yet reliable router.
 
The WRT54GL is probably as good as any other. All of these little devices die from heat exhaustion at some point. Ed's suggestion is a good one, though; I'd try flashing it, and of course, you could always add a fan (google "wrt54g fan mod" and see some of the wacky things the kids have "cooked" up for these little buggers) to help keep it cool and buy yourself a few more years.

New WRT54GL's (hardware only) are about $55 from Amazon <shameless plug> (and of course, Warpstock gets a bump from those sales) </shameless plug> . More are available on eBay, but of course, buying a used one means that you may be purchasing one which is just as tired as yours is, now. DD-WRT and OpenWRT will allow you to throttle back the CPU, to further reduce heat, if you don't need it running at full throughput, although your broadband and LAN performance - as well as your Wi-Fi output - is bound to suffer from a lower clock speed.

Alternatively, you could build yourself a nice little router which will run DD-WRT. Check out:

http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Mikrotik_Routerboard_RB/532
http://www.routerboard.com/rb500.html

I have had good results with the VIA mini-ITX boards, too. The real benefit to building a box for yourself is that you get to mount the motherboard in a real case with fans and a decent power supply (though the little stuff is expensive for the space you get, so beware of that), and then choose your antenna(s).

If you don't want to get your hands dirty, but still want something a bit more substantial than the LinkSys without paying an arm and a leg, look at the Ubiquiti or Mikrotik offerings. I can usually get these at reasonable prices through my Wi-Fi channel (no pun intended), so feel free to run pricing past me to see if we can get you a better deal than advertised.

I have almost no experience with D-Link wireless routers (though I've had good luck with their small switches - better luck than the latest LinkSys ones). Buffalo has some decent stuff (one of our Wi-Fi locations has a Buffalo box running DD-WRT, and it seems to be fairly resilient to wide temperature changes (it's in an unheated/un-air-conditioned room at a train station).

HTH

--
Lewis



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