Recommend a Home Wireless Router

A client is looking for a home wireless router. They have service through a WISP and they placed their modem in the attic. That means that my client has to put a wireless router in the attic to hook up to the modem. The problem with their current one is stability. It needs to be reset pretty regularly and its a hassle to climb into the attic to reset it. Anyone have any recommendations for a stable wireless router? Or maybe even one that can be set up to reboot itself every day?

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undomiel

If you can you could try putting a 3rd party firmware on the router i.e. dd-wrt and you could configure that to automatically reboot itself every X days. As for router recommendations I'd give a recommendation for Buffalo WHR-125 with or without HP.

Bokeh

I used to work for a WISP, and the modem in the attic is a new one on me. Most WISP set up go from antenna to a router directly. Any possibility they can have an electrician run a CAT5 cable through the walls to another location, then plug the router in there so its more easily accessible?

We had several customers in multimillion dollar homes that wanted the bare minimum ofCAT5 exposed, so we told them to have an electrician run the cable, and leave us about a 2 ft stub outside to connect the antenna. Worked wonders.

meadIT

Wow, did a google search for Buffalo WHR-125 and this thread is already the fourth result

I'll take a look into DD-WRT also, thanks for the tip.

I agree that it would be easier to have it hardwired, but the client doesn't want to tear into the walls if wireless will work. If it continues to be a pain, we may be forced to go this route. The way they have their equipment setup is:

cnfuzzd

meadIT wrote:

A client is looking for a home wireless router. They have service through a WISP and they placed their modem in the attic. That means that my client has to put a wireless router in the attic to hook up to the modem. The problem with their current one is stability. It needs to be reset pretty regularly and its a hassle to climb into the attic to reset it. Anyone have any recommendations for a stable wireless router? Or maybe even one that can be set up to reboot itself every day?

We have had clients in the California and Nevada with WAPs and modems in their attics'. During the summer, we can count on one or two devices failing because of the heat. Just an FYI.

John Nickle

meadIT

Looks like Buffalo can't sell their wireless products in North America for the moment:

Buffalotech.com wrote:

On December 3, 2008, Buffalo announced that a federal judge has stayed the permanent injunction in the ongoing U.S. patent litigation (Commonwealth Scientific Research and Industrial Organization v. Buffalo Technology USA, Inc. and Buffalo, Inc.) with respect to the offer to sell, use, import or manufacture Buffalo's IEEE 802.11a and 802.11g standard compliant products.

Buffalo will soon re-introduce it's line of award winning wireless solutions to the North American market. We thank you for your support and your patience.

Please click here for additional information.

undomiel

Injuction stayed, so their products are available currently.

http://www.buffalotech.com/press/releases/buffalos-wireless-injunction-stayed/

meadIT

Oh, I misread it then. When clicking on their products page, every page went to the notice. I assumed that meant they couldn't sell anything. I then noticed the Close button and now can see their products.

Ricka182

I just picked up a Linksys N router..I think the model was L106, or something close to that. It works awesome. It reports an average speed of 144Mbps, and the range is ridiculous. I can be anywhere on my property, inside or out and still get a good signal. I haven't loaded DD-WRT yet, and I may not. As is, it works great out of the box...