Connection Improvement is on the Way!

[theoriginalblurker]

After an additional 2.5 hour IM test last night (thanks kcarp!), I believe we have determined root cause.  It looks like our 5-year old Linksys wireless router is playing the gravity game with us, dropping connection from 3 to 6 times an hour.  I've done some checking around last night and today, and I think the D-Link DIR-655 Xtreme N is the way to go.  It runs about $120 at Circuit City or Office Max (or $150 at Best Buy - wtf?).

Anyone have any opinions one way or the other?

Comments

[gentlyepigrams]

Check Fry's prices too. That's where we go for computer-related gear that we don't get at the Apple Store.

[greeneyes-rpi.livejournal.com]

It says $140 on their website. They're a lot farther away as well.

If at all possible I'm going to try to set it up tonight so that drangelo can use it while I'm gone.

[gentlyepigrams]

Ah, see, we need to go to Fry's sometime soon and it's a bit of a hike, but I think of it as a treat. *is a geek like that*

But yeah, with you leaving, that's a consideration.

[tryslora]

Does it support B&G for wireless as well? When I replaced my router a year ago, I looked at the N routers, but was told that N was different from B/G and that I would have to get all new wireless cards and my visitors wouldn't be able to us it, so I elected to go with another G router.

[greeneyes-rpi.livejournal.com]

It supports separate b, g, and n, as well as combined.

The thing about n is that the standard is still in draft form, so I want to make sure I can use b&g in case they change the protocol somehow when they set the standard.

[gentlyepigrams]

I think we're about to have to update our Airport and that's a consideration for us, as well.

[mcroft.livejournal.com]

whatever you do, change the default password.

[greeneyes-rpi.livejournal.com]

*grin*

[drelmo.livejournal.com]

I have a D-Link, g-wireless, and it is fine. (Once I moved it out of the shadow of the big metal appliance, that is. Duh!) Reasonably easy to set up.

However, it has no power button, so there is no graceful way to power it down. Worse, if there is a power blip, it fails to come back up until both it and the upstream cable modem have been power-cycled and brought back online in rigorous order.

So I would not call it highly robust.