[BAWUG] Best hardware for cheap/fast bridging?

[Chris Weiss]

We're looking to connect our office LANs on two adjacent floors using a 
wireless connection (the current cat-5 snaking out the window is not 
going to cut it when the weather _really_ gets sour). There's plenty of 
pages that talk about how to go about it, but I had no luck in finding 
actual hardware reviews.

Amazon's got the Linksys WRT-54G for ~$60/ea or the WRT-54G with 
speedboost for $80. I know the Speedboost/G-Xtreme stuff is sloppy and 
vile, but is it too vile for office use? We'd REALLY like to get as much 
bandwidth between floors as possible. Can anyone recommend a 
better/cheaper/safer solution?

We'd also like to keep our existing wifi access, which leads to another 
Q - I've heard that just the presence of 802.11b devices in an 802.11g 
environment will drop everyone to b speeds, is that right?

Thanks in advance for any help/advice you guys can provide...
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