On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Arun Khan <[email protected]> wrote: > PS - There are lot of brands claiming features and performance. > Unfortunately, they can be verified only after one has purchased such > an unit. In the past, I have used Linksys and Buffalo. Linksys has > been OK but with internal antenna, range is suspect (at least in my > experience). The Buffalo APs, on paper have great feature and few > models do accept DD-WRT firmware. However, I have had heating issues > - over a period of time the WLAN would disappear. The only way I > could solve it was to power them OFF, let it cool and then power them > ON. Buffalo was great in the RMA dept. but the brand new replacements > had the same problem.
Tomato is another firmware that has earned kudos. I beleive some of the firmware options like that from Sveasoft has an option of increasing radio power to increase range on any router e.g. Linksys where the hardware is capable of higher power but capped by software. -- Mohan Sundaram _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
