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Network Hell, Routers and Wireless Access

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I would like to start of by saying I am sorry for not posting as much as I should have last week.  I have been going through a few headaches this past week that have diverted my thoughts away from putting up anything that would mean anything meaningful to anyone.  If your interested here is a highlight.

I have been going through a little of network hell in the past 2 to 3 days.  You see I have always had a wired network for my computers but my wife and I decided to get a refrigerator this week that has a wireless access point to upload pictures.  But come to find out every time I configure the refrig to my netword my router got blown away.  Which blew away my whole home network.

Next I went to program my XBOX 360 system with wireless access.  Come to find out that I did not have my media server configured on my system.  I still have not figured out how to do that.  So, thinking that my router was not able to handle the broadband needed to connect to the refrig and my XBOX I went out today to purchase another router.  I almost purchased the same router as I had before.  Come to find out, the router that I had, which was on sale ;-) the cheapoo guy in me, was not a very good router.  If your in the market for a new router I would not recommend the Linksys WRT54G model.  For a wired network it is great.  But, for a wireless network it has issues.  I switched over to the Linksys WRT54Gs.  I have not had any problems as of yet.  My wife has hooked up the refrig already and when the kids go to bed I will hook up the XBOX.  I still need to figure out the media center junk.  Vista headache next..  Anyways, I wish I could show you all the other linksys devices that I have gone through in the last 4 years.  In front of me now I have the linksys router BEFSR41.  This tropper last for a while.  I was able to get 3 years out of that one.  But it finally burned out on last year.  Then there is the wireless b router BEFW11S4.  This baby did not work out of the box.  I never got any time on this one.  Last but not least the Wireless G router WRT54G.  It still works but has a sucky wireless network.  It is also on sale at this present time at bestbuy.  Don’t get it…  Spend a little more money and get a better router that will last a little longer than that one.

Linksys WRT54G Wireless-G RouterLinksys WRT54G Wireless-G Router

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Lowest used price: $25.00 USD

Linksys WRT54GS Wireless-G Broadband Router with SpeedBoosterLinksys WRT54GS Wireless-G Broadband Router with SpeedBooster

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Lowest used price: $52.03 USD

This is just a little of the hell that I have been going through this weekend.  But, I hope to start off fresh this week and start on a new subject that I hope will bring you and yours more joy…  Till tomorrow…  Peace….

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2008-02-18 23:06:03

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