Recomended wifi AP

[stormwalkerza]

Greetings

I'm enquiring about whats the best wifi AP available ...

Heavy duty, must be able to handle many connection at the same time, minimum of 5 pc's at any given time.

A bonus would be that it can manage bandwidth, throttle speed to certain pc's

any ideas ??

Cheers

 

[henkk78]

linksys wrt54gl

StormWalker,

I'm biased, but I'd recommend the Linksys WRT54GL.

Install DD-WRT on it and it will do just about anything you'd normally get from routers/APs costing at least 3 grand.

Henk

 

[RichardP]

Linksys is the only option

 

[henkk78]

poe

To another 2c:

You can build a simple PoE box for the Linksys router, get an outdoor enclosure and voila! you have an outdoor AP!

 

[wiki]

or you can buy a routerboard 112 with cm9 card and mikrotik routerOS for under R1000 www.scoop.co.za

the linksys was the best thing since sliced bread but time is catching up

 

[Setsquare]

Yeah wiki is right, times have changed but there wrt54g was never any good, as soon as you have multiple clients on a single wrt transfering at the same time you are stuffed.

The routerboard 112 with a cm9 radio is the cheapest solution that can do what you want and much more.

Its going to be more than R1000(Retail) though as you need to find some sort of enclosure, need pigtails, power supply and antenna after you have just bought the board and radio.

 

[Setsquare]

StormWalker,

I'm biased, but I'd recommend the Linksys WRT54GL.

Install DD-WRT on it and it will do just about anything you'd normally get from routers/APs costing at least 3 grand.

Henk

Could probley pickup a full solution based on rb112 or even better rb532 as the rb112 is ment for cpe use for way less than that. RouterOS's features make dd-wrt look like nothing

 

[RichardP]

Yeah wiki is right, times have changed but there wrt54g was never any good, as soon as you have multiple clients on a single wrt transfering at the same time you are stuffed.

The routerboard 112 with a cm9 radio is the cheapest solution that can do what you want and much more.

Its going to be more than R1000(Retail) though as you need to find some sort of enclosure, need pigtails, power supply and antenna after you have just bought the board and radio.

R1000 + Box R100 + PoE R60 + PowerSupply R150 + Pigtails R70 + N-type connectors on Cables R170 + Antenna R300

It adds up ... I still think the linksys wrt54gl is awesome.. but using Mikrotik RouterOS in a home environment is like killing an ant with a ICBM missile.

 

[Setsquare]

RichardP, nice to see you can add things up from the price list but I wasent talking about those kinds of componets. I am talking about the indoor routerboard enclosures, so you dont need a high dbi antenna just rubber ducks, and you dont need cables or POE.

Heavy duty, must be able to handle many connection at the same time, minimum of 5 pc's at any given time.

Do you honestly think this will work well on a WRT54GL RichardP ?

I asume he is using this setup indoors in some sort of office environment.