Friday, May 04, 2007

Daddy needs a new Access Point...

Any opinions, people?

As far as I can tell, the D-link has a more sensitive receiver across all the bands (except at the bottom of the data rates) and is cheaper (and has more reviews on Newegg, for what it's worth).

The Netgear is more expensive, obviously (but only $5 more after shipping and rebate), has WPA2 support (don't know how much I really care) and a more powerful transmitter along with being from the same product line as my new router and explicitly being compliant with the VNC system of aforementioned router. The Netgear firmware itself likely has more config options since it's a business-line product, which may be something of a double-edged sword since there're more options to play with and potentially break something with.

Obviously all transmitter power/receiver sensitivity numbers are from the individual manufacturers themselves, so I must take them with several grains of salt.

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