ask Dr. LJ about home wifi routers
Sep. 3rd, 2009 09:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
danceboyThe Sweatshop house router is showing its age, so I'm thinking about replacing it with something that doesn't crash every week or so when it's warm out (which is to say that this summer it's actually been pretty reliable). So I'm looking for suggestions.
I've heard tell of magical routers that will download your torrents all on their own, provide NAS, act as a media server, make your breakfast, and change the baby. Do these actually work? Are they easy to set up/keep up (tinkering is fun, but I will soon have negative free time)? Do people actually find that they like it?
As far as I can tell, I want something with WPA2, but that doesn't seem to be all that difficult these days.
Most of the machines in the house speak draft 802.11n, and soon it should be all of them. Which makes me think that we'd actually see a benefit to a draft n router. On the flip side, I've heard that these tend to be less reliable. Anyone have data or anecdotes?
Please let me know what you think. And please don't feel that you have to have answers to any/all of my questions to comment. Thank you very much.
I've heard tell of magical routers that will download your torrents all on their own, provide NAS, act as a media server, make your breakfast, and change the baby. Do these actually work? Are they easy to set up/keep up (tinkering is fun, but I will soon have negative free time)? Do people actually find that they like it?
As far as I can tell, I want something with WPA2, but that doesn't seem to be all that difficult these days.
Most of the machines in the house speak draft 802.11n, and soon it should be all of them. Which makes me think that we'd actually see a benefit to a draft n router. On the flip side, I've heard that these tend to be less reliable. Anyone have data or anecdotes?
Please let me know what you think. And please don't feel that you have to have answers to any/all of my questions to comment. Thank you very much.
