Recomend me a good quality reliable wireless router

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VERT

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Wannabe Geek

#56708 21-Jan-2010 13:52

It must have 4 or more wired ports, I dont want it to have built in ADSL

It must have a removable aerial

and It must have some sort of adjustable gain/ signal strength as we want to be able to wind the signal strength right down so that the coverage area for the wireless signal is very small.

Cheers

ZollyMonsta

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#291898 21-Jan-2010 13:59

Linksys WRT54G loaded with DDWRT firmware.

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drou

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Geek

#291938 21-Jan-2010 15:32

Use a Mikrotik Routerboar with a wireless network card, a miniPCI card... Fully configurable

greetings!

Zippity

683 posts

Ultimate Geek

#291944 21-Jan-2010 15:39

VERT: ......................It must have some sort of adjustable gain/ signal strength as we want to be able to wind the signal strength right down so that the coverage area for the wireless signal is very small.

Cheers

Surely there are better ways to restrict unwanted use :) :)

VERT

5 posts

Wannabe Geek

#292110 22-Jan-2010 09:28

Zippity:
VERT: ......................It must have some sort of adjustable gain/ signal strength as we want to be able to wind the signal strength right down so that the coverage area for the wireless signal is very small.

Cheers

Surely there are better ways to restrict unwanted use :) :)

Such as?

I know we could use an encryption key but because of the type of work we are doing a encryption key would be a hassle

drou

25 posts

Geek

#292122 22-Jan-2010 10:21

You can try with MAC address restriction, or use Hotspot if you don't want to use encription and yu want to controll the users...

sultanoswing

814 posts

Ultimate Geek

#292696 24-Jan-2010 16:39

Agree with the above - use MAC filtering and be done with it.

I also second the choice of a Linksys WRT54G capable of running open-source firmware (Tomato, DD-WRT). great bang for the buck.

brcjackson

35 posts

Geek

#297700 10-Feb-2010 16:09

I would try the Engenius 1650 or Engenius 2610, use a free hotspot account and then add your mac. They also support wireless meshing to cover more ground.