On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 2:35 PM, dragorn <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 10:56:10PM -0500, Jack Chastain wrote: > > Chris, Al > > > > On the phone, so a short reply. > > > > Yes, I am considering the wrt54 model as a replacement unit. The net gear > > unit worked but was unreliable. > > > > For the money they want to talk to me, I can get a new unit and a year of > > support as well! > > > > Thanks. I'll try a reset first, then probably go for a new one > regardless. > > > > Did consider pinging Alex too :-) > > $0.02: DO NOT get the wrt54g anymore - it's way outdated and way > underpowered. > A modern equivalent (from another email) is the WNDR 3800. > > That's a Netgear unit - after my recent experience, I am not tempted to purchase from NetGear again. I was looking at some similar-priced new Linksys units though and was wondering what the current equivalent for the WRT54g might be. I will still try the unit Paul plans to give me though - my needs are not extreme. > The wrt54 was never a very good piece of hardware; it was just pretty > cheap and could run custom firmware. The radio is pretty much crap, > and the ram is pretty minimal. > Sounds like just what I need :-) The unit just needs to support my son in his room above the garage. Anything else would be over much. > > You can't, for example, use a wrt54 on fios and get very good > performance - it'll start throttling when it hits CPU load around > 15-20mbit. > > -m > Ah - this is a good point. I doubt it will be an issue though as noted above. The unit will probably only be supporting my son on his Chromebook and his phone on WiFi - but the wired portion will have his X-BOX and Linux system as well. If it chokes, I will replace it with something newer, I suppose. Thanks! JC -- Eschew obfuscation and pompous prolixity. Light a man a fire, he is warm for the night. Light a man afire, he is warm for the rest of his life.
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