Advice on new wireless router

[pi3832]

I've given up on my Belkin N1 wireless router.

The wireless just stops working periodically. I've tried Belkin's abyssmal tech support and got nowhere. I even modified the router by installed a fan to see if maybe it was overheating. It still stays up for about a day, and then requires both a soft and hard reboot to get the wireless going again.

Anyway, so I'm looking for advice on a replacement.

I don't need blazing speeds, just a consistent connection. (It's nice to have porn--er, multimedia download quickly, but not vital.)

The problem is the signal has to go through four interior walls and one exterior wall, with steel siding! Maybe a total distance of 150 ft. The Belkin could do it, so I'm hoping that a good 802.11g wireless router will, too.

I'm presuming that "RangeBooster" and such features are actually just data compression technologies, that let you push more data over the same signal. I'd prefer not to have to replace the Belkin N1 card in my client, so I'm guessing just basic G is all I can get. Which should be enough, if throughput isn't a big concern

I'm thinking about one of the following:
Linksys WRT54GL
Buffalo Technologies WHR-HP-G54
Netgear KWGR614
D-Link WBR-1310

Any clear winners among those? Something else I should look at? I'm looking for range and reliability.

TIA.

 

[pi3832]

Follow up: I bought the Buffalo Technologies wireless router.

As others have said elsewhere, it's a pain to configure. Whenever you change a setting there is a delay of between 10 and 90 seconds while the router resets.

But, after getting it configured, it would seem to work quite well. A 5db increase in signal over the Belkin (according to NetStumbler), a more consistent signal, and it's been over a week and the Buffalo Tech wireless router hasn't locked up once. (The Belkin would rarely go longer than one day.)

I don't know how BT compares to other brands in general, but in this case they're significantly better than Belkin.

(Though, I worry about how neighbor-friendly the BT is. With the output at 100% I think I may be hammering other networks into oblivion. NetStumbler would previously pick up two or three networks other than mine. After having the BT running for a day or so, all the other networks have disappeared. Have I killed them?)