It's overpriced and there are cheaper options, but I've been using an Airport Extreme for years and now also an Airport Express. Replaced a Netgear that kept dropping the wireless signal. The Extreme has been completely reliable for years, and this Express has made it possible to work at places without wifi such as my family's house or client conference rooms.

I choose these because my time is better spent coding than experimenting or supporting a router. Otherwise, I think something that runs Tomato (or similar) for much less money would be nice.

$0.02

-j

On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 7:33 PM, Michael Butash <michael@butash.net> wrote:

I don't know if they've gotten better, but powerline ethernet adapters I have/had, netgear units were terrible between rooms. Almost constant packetloss after a while, which made video streaming off my nas terrible.

Do you monitor yours at all? I didn't notice with lower bitrate divx, but with hd materials it got noticed fast. I'd thought it was the system for a while until i realized the connection sucked. I had to toss a cable down the hall, but streams 1080p just dandy now.

-mb

On 01/09/2013 07:00 PM, fouldragon@aol.com wrote:

Buffalo offers a range which runs DD-WRT natively; I bought the $60
model from that family recently and had fairly decent results. I finally
gave up on wireless to my desktops, though, and just threw
Ethernet-over-powerline adapters in the rooms with computers.

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