D-Link or Linksys??

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Which routers and adapters are better?? D-Link or Linksys. On Best
Buy there are some nice deals on the D-Link wireless routers ( both b and
g's), also good deals on the D-link
USB wireless adapters. Linksys actually will cost about $$50-70 more with
all the rebates added in. Anyone have good luck with D-Link. How is
reception on their wireless equipment??

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"snow" <dlessard@powerlink.net> wrote in message
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> Which routers and adapters are better?? D-Link or Linksys. On Best
> Buy there are some nice deals on the D-Link wireless routers ( both b and
> g's), also good deals on the D-link
> USB wireless adapters. Linksys actually will cost about $$50-70 more with
> all the rebates added in. Anyone have good luck with D-Link. How is
> reception on their wireless equipment??

Both are good products, and I've used both with good results.

However, I suggest you don't mix them: the manufacturers have proprietary
features (speed boosters, etc.) that only work between cards from the same
company.

FWIW.

William

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I've run both a linksys "g" wireless router and a dlink "b" wireless router.
Both did/do ok. The DLink was probably a little more powerful in terms of a
firewall.

Joe
"snow" <dlessard@powerlink.net> wrote in message
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> Which routers and adapters are better?? D-Link or Linksys. On Best
> Buy there are some nice deals on the D-Link wireless routers ( both b and
> g's), also good deals on the D-link
> USB wireless adapters. Linksys actually will cost about $$50-70 more with
> all the rebates added in. Anyone have good luck with D-Link. How is
> reception on their wireless equipment??
>
>

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> However, I suggest you don't mix them: the manufacturers have proprietary
> features (speed boosters, etc.) that only work between cards from the same
> company.

Unless you buy all of your products with one of those features (the same
each time), mixing or not won't make a difference. And the effect of
those boosters is not nearly as big as the numbers seem to indicate
(witness the wrt54gs's speedbooster "only" claims "upto 30%
higher throughput" while the chipset manufacturer originally advertised the
technology as 125Mbps (or some such ridiculously high number)).

D-link's channel bonding is even worse since it eats up more channels (and
can only be used in this mode on a single channel) and has thus more
problems of interference.

So unless you have particular needs for very high bandwidth between your
different home machines, I'd stick to 11g (or even 11b). It won't make any
difference w.r.t accessing the internet in any case.


Stefan

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"Airman Thunderbird" <airman_basic@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I tried all the 30 MW hardware, with varying degrees of success. Have
> since switched to 200 MW stuff from these folks:
>
> http://www.senao.com.tw/english/pr [...] 01_all.asp
>
> No comparison.
>
> William Warren wrote:
>
> > "snow" <dlessard@powerlink.net> wrote in message
> > news:10ianduqhggh006@corp.supernews.com...
> >
> >>Which routers and adapters are better?? D-Link or Linksys. On Best
> >>Buy there are some nice deals on the D-Link wireless routers ( both b
and
> >>g's), also good deals on the D-link
> >>USB wireless adapters. Linksys actually will cost about $$50-70 more
with
> >>all the rebates added in. Anyone have good luck with D-Link. How is
> >>reception on their wireless equipment??
> >
> >
> > Both are good products, and I've used both with good results.
> >
> > However, I suggest you don't mix them: the manufacturers have
proprietary
> > features (speed boosters, etc.) that only work between cards from the
same
> > company.
> >
> > FWIW.
> >
> > William
> >
> > (Filter noise from my address for direct emails.)
> >
> >

Where can you buy them?

--
Bob Alston

bobalston9 AT aol DOT com


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"Airman Thunderbird" <airman_basic@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Several vendors. Here's one I've used:
>
> http://wisp-depot.com/
>
> Bob Alston wrote:
> > "Airman Thunderbird" <airman_basic@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:Vfydncg2qM2ASrjcRVn-qg@netdoor.com...
> >
> >>I tried all the 30 MW hardware, with varying degrees of success. Have
> >>since switched to 200 MW stuff from these folks:
> >>
> >>http://www.senao.com.tw/english/product/Product_wireless01_all.asp
> >>
> >>No comparison.
> >>
> >>>
> >
> >
> > Where can you buy them?
> >

Know of any studies comparing the range/throughput of these vs. others?

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That is a very interesting quote from Thomas Watson: What exactly does it
mean or what is he referring to? Surely in 1945 the only computer in
existence was and had only been the Top Secret one they had been using in
Bletchley Park to decode Nazi enigma machines' newly-more complex messages
(when they added the fifth rotor) and no one could conceivably have known
about it? Even if it was being planned this early, didn't ENIAC come along
some years later? How could he have been trying to predict the uses of
something which didn't exist yet?


"Aphrael" <aphrael@isuisse.com> wrote in message
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> Joseph Sullivan wrote:
>
> > I've run both a linksys "g" wireless router and a dlink "b" wireless
router.
> > Both did/do ok. The DLink was probably a little more powerful in terms
of a
> > firewall.
> >
> > Joe
> > "snow" <dlessard@powerlink.net> wrote in message
> > news:10ianduqhggh006@corp.supernews.com...
> >
> >>Which routers and adapters are better?? D-Link or Linksys. On Best
> >>Buy there are some nice deals on the D-Link wireless routers ( both b
and
> >>g's), also good deals on the D-link
> >>USB wireless adapters. Linksys actually will cost about $$50-70 more
with
> >>all the rebates added in. Anyone have good luck with D-Link. How is
> >>reception on their wireless equipment??
>
> I have had less problems with D-link (also when the alimentation of my
> AP broke, I got one new in three days), and in my opinion, DLink has
> less problem to be in a multi-brand network.
>
> In the end, it is a matter of personal taste / expereience, I would
> say... Btw, for roughly the same equipment, D-Link is sometimes a bit
> cheaper here in Switzerland.
>
> Aphrael.
> --
> "La demande mondiale d’ordinateurs n’excédera pas cinq machines."
> (Thomas Watson, Fondateur d'IBM, 1945)