[TriLUG] Router recommendations

[Joseph Mack NA3T via TriLUG]

On Sat, 13 Oct 2018, Bill Weinel via TriLUG wrote:

>> - I only use wifi a little bit, so any kind of wifi will do.

It won't. You'll go crazy with a crappy wifi.

Many (most?) wifi boxes have crappy power supplies that cause the box to hang or 
reboot on power line spikes or dropouts. I run all of mine on a UPS or have a 
real power supply of double the amperage.

Also most of the waps I've dealt with drop packets, stalling a tcp transfer. I 
have a bunch of standard commodity waps and ran ping tests. I found that most 
dropped at least 1 ping packet in 10. The problem was with the waps and not the 
wifi nics in my computers. The only ones I had that didn't drop packets were a 
few Ciscos (not the Linksys ones with a Cisco badge).

Unfortunately the ones I had that didn't drop packets (eg the Ciscos) can't be 
flashed with OpenWrt and you have to navigate the configuration via a web 
browser, rather than the command line.

I suggest you get a good one. I don't have Ubiquitis but many people here seem 
to like them.

Also make sure you have "a" as well as "g". I run "a" inside the house to avoid 
collisions with all the machines around me running "g".

Joe
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