OT: Wireless routers

[Bill Akers]

Fairlight wrote:
> Is it just me, or did Bill Akers say:
>> I have 2 ea DIR-624's at home and have never seen any latency 
>> issues. I used one of them at work when we were conducting training 
> 
> My issues persisted with the DIR-615 and were in play the entire time I had
> my DI-624 (not DIR-624...I'd have to look up the differences, unless you
> typo'd).

I typoed, picked up on your reference to DIR-615 I guess. Sorry.

   I always thought it was just a normal side effect of the EM black
> hole we call an apartment.  You have no idea how much sporadic noise I get
> on my speakers, or how many times CB radio will come over amps and
> speakers.  We're close to I-264, so every jerk that has a major illegal
> boost to their CB rig annoys us.
> 
>> wireless network, and we had eight to ten wireless notebooks on line 
>> using the built in wireless system with the 4 inch antenna, without 
> 
> Yeah, you know, I even tried another antenna on the DI-624 years back.  No
> joy.  Didn't do a thing to boost the signal, really.  I just thought,
> well...that must be how it is.
> 
>> Linksys products are a great deal better since CISCO bought them. We 
> 
> I was worried they'd be horrid because Cisco's personal routers used to be
> pretty bad.  I had worked on a client's site once from remote, and if you
> sent SIGKILL via keyboard (^\), it would literally hard-lock the router.
> That was a Cisco 600 series...darned if I remember the exact model...600?
> 640?  It was in that line.
> 
> But no, I love the new Linksys I got...it's making me SO happy right now,
> you have no idea.  Just typing email without waiting on pauses while
> editing...  :)  Nevermind the gaming, that alone is a blessing.
> 
>> But we use Cisco as our wireless access points for connecting to 
>> computers on the production floor. They cut through all the 
>> electro-magnetic garbage in an admirable manner.
> 
> Yeah, and I think EM interference is really our problem around here.
> Always has been.  I gave up on cordless phones -years- ago when they were
> still at 900MHz.  Took an act of Congress to get a channel with decent
> reception.  You'd walk across the room and get 2-3 "veins" of static to
> varying degrees.

For only about 10 to 20 times what you paid for the Linksys you 
should be able to get a good CISCO Aironet 1240AG access 
point/router if things deteriorate with your new router.

> 
> mark->