New router ordered
Jan. 13th, 2011 12:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnridleyI bought a cheap Rosewill wireless router for $25 a few months back to replace our ailing WRT-54GL. It's OK but I couldn't get it to run Tomato (it's advertised as doing so). This morning Newegg's flier advertised one of the nicer Asus routers for $38, so one of those is on the way. Those are pretty well reviewed as lasting a while.
For whatever reason, it seems to be the norm that wireless routers last 2 or 3 years and then die. I suspect mostly of bad capacitors. The old Netgear 514s that I bought several of all died of bad capacitors.
For whatever reason, it seems to be the norm that wireless routers last 2 or 3 years and then die. I suspect mostly of bad capacitors. The old Netgear 514s that I bought several of all died of bad capacitors.
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Date: 2011-01-13 11:59 pm (UTC)I seems to be working quite well, plus the cheap 4$ aftermarket stupidly long antennas I added seem to work well too. Not that I have done any tests to see if the longer antennas give me any better range or reception. The Linksys GL takes a different connector for which I was not able to find a cheap replacement antenna.
We shall see this Spring if the antennas improve the range.