[Lancaster] wireless routers

[Dave Smith]

Hi Andy

Not sure how it'd necessarily do on range, but I've been prety impressed 
- for the price - with these:

http://www.buffalo-technology.com/products/wireless/wireless-g-125-high-speed/whr-g125-wireless-g-high-speed-router/

Cost me about £18 on E-Buyer when I got mine (about 6 months ago) and 
took around 5 minutes to slap DD-WRT (mini version) on there. Gives me 
multiple security options (including Radius), along with a plethora of 
vlan and routing options (for such a little box). Admittedly, I haven't 
tested the 'extra' features DD-WRT offers, but both my WAPs are sitting 
there happily with plus 50 day uptimes (I rebooted them after issuing a 
delayed firmware update) with no noticeable problems: they're sat on 
diffferent networks, one providing "hidden" access to family computers, 
the other providing open guest access.

Like I say, I'm not 100% sure how they'll do over 3 stories, but I've 
had no issues around my house with them, and you can always up the Tx 
Power with DD-WRT anyway...

http://www.dd-wrt.com/site/support/router-database

Should give you a list of devices to check against for compatability. 
I'd highly recommend giving it a look whatever device you decide upon.

Dave

On 17/07/2010 16:32, andy baxter wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Does anyone have any recommendations for a good wireless router? The
> minimum requirements are that it supports WPA, has a built in firewall,
> and also a proper interface for routing traffic to particular machines
> based on the incoming port. Nice extras would be:
>
> - good range (I'm moving into a 3 storey house)
> - hackable.
>
> andy
>
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