[TriLUG] Re: Linksys Wireless Access Points

Lance A. Brown lance at bearcircle.net
Wed Jul 28 10:49:32 EDT 2004


Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
> I've had 3 WAP11s that lock up almost everyday I use them. One of them was
> dead after 6months sitting on a shelf. I have another friend who has had 2
> die on him. I can't imagine having these survive a summer in the attic.
> I'm leary of trying a WRT54G, despite it running linux with the problems
> I've had. The WRT54G has the same lock up problems from reading the
> linux-wrt54g mailing list, which they handle by down/up'ing the ethernet
> port every few mins in a cron job.

My WRT54G has performed well for me.  I am *not* in a heavy 
concentration of access points, but there are 2 that appear from time 
to time.  I just made sure to select channels away from them and I've 
had no lockup problems.

--[Lance]

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