[geeks] Wireless Router reccomendations

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
>Date: 2008/04/12 Sat PM 01:03:33 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] Wireless Router reccomendations

<snip suggestion to get a WRT54GL>

>Well, there is one reason: The WRT54 series is slow as molasses,  
>bogging down under relatively light network loads, especially if you  
>use any features besides the most basic.

What about a seperate access point and router? Smoothwall[0]/Vyatta[1] on a samll PC (like a PIII with a smaller (180 Watt?) PS?[2]) and a low-end Cisco AP (seen on eBay for around $100 or less with power supplies and power injectors - search "cisco Aironet 1200"[3], for instance)?

>I like them, but mine frequently is a bottleneck, and I don't even  
>have that many NAT or other rules.

I've not heard that before, but all I have on my WRT54G is my Comcast WAN connection, a DMZ machine, and my 24 port switch - I don't bother it with any traffic it doesn't need to see, maybe that makes a difference?

Not that I doubt your words, but can you point to any sort of discussion on that topic? I'm interested and sort of half-heartedly looking for an excuse to go "professional grade" for my router/AP needs... ;^)

Lionel

[0] http://vyatta.org/

[1] http://smoothwall.org/

[2] Contact me off list, I have a few PIII boxes (Dell SFF) that may be of use if you decide to go that route

[3] 802.11b Aironet 1200 for $65 + antenna: http://cgi.ebay.com/AIR-AP1220B-A-K9-Cisco-Aironet-1200-Series-Access-Point_W0QQitemZ160228003970QQihZ006QQcategoryZ44996QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem