Help pick a router

[scherzo]

Originally Posted by syncro

A few months ago I was looking at the Airport Express Base station and the one of the Netgear open source routers. From what I remember of the two routers - one was a bit faster with 5ghz clients and one was faster with non 5 ghz clients. The Netgear router had the advantage of open source firmware options to gain feature not included in the Netgear firmware (I am currently running two WRT54G routers with the tomato firmware).

I have a linksys wrt310N and have dd-wrt running. It is awesome. Similar to to the Tomato firmware.

Basically this means getting similar functionality as the 3200 in a much cheaper box. If you don't want to do the firmware swap then you can't go wrong with the 3200. I like being able to monitor the signal strength of my devices as well as monitor what is hooking up to the system.

**I forgot to say that you probably don't need the 5ghz range in the 3200 anyway because you probably don't have any 5ghz devices.

[Dez]

I have an Apple Airport. My office is half a block away from my house and when I'm at my desk I can pick up 3/4 bars of wifi from my own house. That way I don't have to pay for internet at work