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I'm visiting my mum for Christmas, so of course, I need to sort out her internet connection. She lives in France, and her ISP is l'Orange - they are terrible, but then so are SFR, the only other choice. She had connection problems on her copper ADSL line for ages, which were eventually solved by upgrading to FTTH.
Now, the actual internet connection is very nearly stable, but the Sagemcom "Livebox" supplied by the ISP still crashes multiple times every day. This box is an ADSL2+ modem/wired switch/wifi AP, but now that fibre has been installed, the internet is supplied by a separate, wired, optical terminal (an Alcatel-Lucent 73xx I think), and the Livebox serves merely as a WiFi access point. So while the landline internet connection now works fine, the wireless network goes down repeatedly. Since this is the 6th replacement Livebox unit she has been given, I've concluded that it isn't defective, but just badly designed.
I am looking to replace the livebox with a 3rd party access point. The main requirement is just that it has good uptime. 802.11N would be nice, but G will do. It would also be nice if it had a 4-port wired ethernet switch built in, but I could get a separate one. It doesn't need MIMO, or amazing range, or QoS, or a built-in modem, it just needs to be:
- A Wifi access point
- with 99.9%+ uptime
- for a reasonable price
- that I can buy in France, e.g. at a Fnac store.
Any recommendations appreciated, or if anyone can point me at some stats for which home WiFi APs have the best uptime that'd be great.
Misha
I'm visiting my mum for Christmas, so of course, I need to sort out her internet connection. She lives in France, and her ISP is l'Orange - they are terrible, but then so are SFR, the only other choice. She had connection problems on her copper ADSL line for ages, which were eventually solved by upgrading to FTTH.
Now, the actual internet connection is very nearly stable, but the Sagemcom "Livebox" supplied by the ISP still crashes multiple times every day. This box is an ADSL2+ modem/wired switch/wifi AP, but now that fibre has been installed, the internet is supplied by a separate, wired, optical terminal (an Alcatel-Lucent 73xx I think), and the Livebox serves merely as a WiFi access point. So while the landline internet connection now works fine, the wireless network goes down repeatedly. Since this is the 6th replacement Livebox unit she has been given, I've concluded that it isn't defective, but just badly designed.
I am looking to replace the livebox with a 3rd party access point. The main requirement is just that it has good uptime. 802.11N would be nice, but G will do. It would also be nice if it had a 4-port wired ethernet switch built in, but I could get a separate one. It doesn't need MIMO, or amazing range, or QoS, or a built-in modem, it just needs to be:
- A Wifi access point
- with 99.9%+ uptime
- for a reasonable price
- that I can buy in France, e.g. at a Fnac store.
Any recommendations appreciated, or if anyone can point me at some stats for which home WiFi APs have the best uptime that'd be great.
Misha
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