Back in 2006, Hal Pomeranz asked for SOHO wifi AP recommendations. I'd like to re-open the topic, asking for recommendations for 2008/2009, off-list and I'll summarise.
Requirements: * no client OS dependencies for configuration (see below) * WPA2 PSK personal, more better * IPv6 router, 6to4 support * 802.11a, or draft-n at 5MHz, or a/b/g/n or whatever Nice to have: * file server via USB-connected disks I live in an apartment complex and can currently see 17 networks, which is on the low side for what I normally see, so 5MHz 802.11a is a must for reliable wifi. I currently use an Apple Airport Extreme and am, on the whole, fairly happy with it. However, come December I will be refreshing my work laptop which is the only MacOS client I have; I have no intention of sticking with MacOS (Leopard is disappointing, especially given some of the things $work does to Leopard laptops; no, waiting 2 minutes for the machine to become responsive after joining the VPN while the LDAP directory resynchronises is not acceptable when you're oncall and trying to respond to a page). So, I'll be using some kind of Linux distribution and need to be able to admin my base-station. The closest I can find to support the current base-station is something last updated in 2002 which doesn't support all of the current features and has no clearly legal approach to getting firmware for security updates. I can not rely upon something so tenuous for my wireless connectivity. Thus it's time to get a new base-station before I lose my MacOS client. I have a WRT54GL for b/g connectivity for devices limited to that; it tends to degrade rather fast for reasons described above, but it is adequate in a pinch. I use IPv6 extensively and am stuck behind a Cable provider with no IPv6 for customers, so need 6to4. I'd much rather see this provided at the wifi router stage, so that there's IPv6 on the network for all clients without special configuration. Recommendations appreciated. Thanks, -Phil _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
