Hi Folks,
I finally found a wireless router that resolved all the issues I've had with interference, security, configurability, and signal strength. Previously, I owned a D-Link Super-G, a Linksys CGM200 Cable Gateway, a Belkin Wireless Pre-N, et. al. All had issue with wireless strength across my house, security standards not-supported properly, dropped wireless connections, and or configurability issues that conflicted with my XBox 360 or other devices.
My new Netgear Rangemax WPN824 seems to have solved all of the issues. It uses 7 dynamically configured internal antennae to maximize signal strength throughout the house and seems to yield maximum bandwidth to both my kids computers upstairs, my XBox 360 downstairs, and Kirsten's MacBook Pro anywhere in the house. Basically, it utilizes most of the 802.11 N enhancements, but is optimized for 802.11 G devices. It supports all current wireless security standards and is highly configurable. Setup was quite simple.
This is the best wireless router I've ever used and I highly recommend it at $99.00 if you make use of wireless devices in your house.
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RE: Wireless Routers
Just ordered two hawking 8 port gige switches ($25 a piece), Once your start shuffling lots of media around wifi (even N) just doesnt seem to cut it. Course dragging the cable was a pain but probable not as bad as going through 8 different ap's and trouble shooting them :)
I just got through setting up dd-wrt on my gateway though, pretty spiffy firmware, allows for full network monitoring, wifi hot spot management self contained radius service and ipv6 as well as a bunch of other cool features one would normally only see in a very high end router.