[Chester LUG] WiFi Terror

[Sebastian Arcus]

> On a related note, I'm probably going to switch to AAISP in the next few months, as their routers are hand made, and seem to be rock solid.

Hand made? I'd be really curious as to what exactly does that mean. For 
some reason I keep on hearing the music from those M&S adverts, with 
cream flowing over luscious raspberries. Or some such imagery. I'd be 
happy if they use good chippery, and quality capacitors - I've nothing 
against being built by some non-unionised robot.

If it's up to me, I'm perfectly happy with one of the Netgear routers - 
pretty much any. Except for the square corners ones - all of them seem 
to suffer from the red/orange power light startup failure after about 
one year. There is a long thread on Netgear's forum about it (and no 
solution). However, even then, once you let the power adapter cool off 
for about 10 minutes, they'll get going and not stop for another few months.

Although some people seem to have different opinions - I must have 
installed close to 100 Netgears over the years - and they seem to be the 
most robust consumer routers out there. And at least as far as I'm 
concerned - the interface actually makes sense.

I was trying to configure some port redirection on a router supplied by 
Plusnet the other day - and I must have gone 10 times in circles until I 
figured out how did *they* expect you to configure the router to do it. 
Even a Draytek - which as far as I can tell, seems to be a solid (and 
not cheap) piece of hardware - if, for some reason, quite unpopular - 
has an outright weird and unnecessarily obfuscated online interface.

Sebastian