[TriLUG] linksys wrtg54g range problems

[David A. Cafaro]

I was using a linksys wrt54gs for a while, and finaly gave up on it. 
The range seemed to be shorter than my old netgear 802.11b and I would
find the wireless part of it would lock up every month or so (and no I
had no lockups with the old netgear, my cordless phones are all 900mhz,
etc..)

I just purchased a new Netgear b/g router the WGT624 and it has better
range.  I'll have to have it more than a month or so to see if I don't
have the monthly reboots like the linksys, but I definitely see much
better range out of it than the Linksys.

I'll be saving the linksys for experimentation with embedded linux for
now.

One other thing you could try is the linksys range expander WRE54G.  I
purchased this and it does work, but it is a big PAIN to setup.  It also
doesn't have MAC filtering (does have wep, and WPA in an eventual
firmware upgrade).  It did help make up for the lost range when I was
still using the Linksys router.

-David

On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 20:41, Ralph Blach wrote:
> I have a linksys wrtg54g wireless access point and it seem to have range 
> wireless range problems.  Is this normal
> for the linksys wireless access points.  The two cards I have are 
> wireless b cards, do  I definately dont need
> G but better range would be nice. 
> 
> Any sugestions?
> 
> -- 
> Ralph "Chip" Blach
> rcblach at blach.dnsalias.org
rblach at intrex.net
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