Re: Wireless performance...

With all of this talk on the list of people having Wireless troubles, I
thought I would advocate the Buffalo WBR-G54 router/switch/ap/bridge.
Recently Roddie Hasan was on this very list talking about them and we took
the discussion off list.  While I haven't personally bought any of them yet,
my brother was having lots of wireless problems and stability issues with
his Linksys gear.  He came to me for some advice and I encouraged him to
give these guys a shot.

So, he went down to CompUSA and bought two of them, linked them together and
is extremely pleased with how much better everything is running now.  He has
a cable modem and computer on one of them in his bedroom and it's bridged
wirelessly to the other in his living room.  Since the Buffalo supports WDS
bridging, he can still use both simultaneously as access points and when he
takes his laptop through the house, he can easily switch to whichever has
the stronger signal with no problem!  His previous Linksys' boxes would
continuously lose each other and sometimes you wouldn't even get a signal
sitting 4 feet from the antenna!  It was pretty pathetic.

I'm sure I'll be buying a few of these suckers soon myself.  Thanks Roddie
for the recommendations!

Also, I have read the following article on this particular unit and it has
some great information regarding mixing B/G on the same network:
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/Reviews-33-ProdID-WBRG54.php
(Check on the Wireless Performance page)

I have ALSO read somewhere that disabling B compatibility on many G products
could actually cost a tremendous amount of performance when B devices
continuously and repeatedly attempt to associate with a G access point and
fail over-and-over again.  I think they were saying the only way around this
is to make sure your network is encrypted (a good idea anyway).  It has
something to do with preventing the machine from even being able to start
the association process.  Therefore, disabling B compatibility is BAD unless
you also encrypt.

--Chris

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