As a disclaimer, I haven't bought since I'm holding out for a router that is all of (1) 3rd party firmware compatible (2) gigabit (3) MIMO (4) N wifi, but these two finds I happened across on DealExtreme are somewhat interesting and pretty well priced:
Unfortunately both are only 100Mb and unlikely to be 3rd party firmware compatible.
The usual disclaimers are applicable to DealExtreme. I, too, am not sure how I feel about buying a shanzhai router. However, there's free shipping! Unfortunately, the free shipping will take a few weeks.
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hellraiser943 said:Love DealExtreme, just wouldnt buy important electronics from them.
I agree. I think at $35 dollars though, this might be close to the borderline of important for me. Not really a ton of money to be out if it ends up being terrible.
Anyway, I thought it was a pretty decent deal for something new, and not refurbed, and easily available without any hoops to jump through, especially since the ones that have been available at this price point have gotten pretty terrible reviews as is.
Message edited by: TheSaint on 2009-11-09 14:08:53 CST
I had AR670W and it really sucked. It had DNS issues with Airlink 1.01 firmware and it dropped wireless clients with dd-wrt.. WAN to LAN throughput is only around 3Mbit... Not recommended.
Client and repeater modes work in the most recent build of DD-WRT (13069 - do NOT use 13064, it kills LAN ports). More info in this thread.
Using DD-WRT 13069 on an AR670W, I'm getting WAN to LAN throughput of 31Mbps to a Netgear WN111 USB dongle, 22Mbps to a Netgear WNDA3100, and 18Mbps to a Thinkpad x61t built-in G-wireless. The numbers aren't great, but are faster than my ZyXEL X550 by about 10Mbps to N clients. I'd probably need to upgrade to 5GHz to get much faster as all Wifi channels are fairly saturated in my neighborhood (20+ routers visible on Site Survey). DD-WRT defaults to channel 6 and that was the cause of my initial slow throughput - 9 other nearby routers also on ch 6.
My parent's neighbor has wifi and told them they are free to use it. Of course, the signal does not penetrate very far into my parent's home, so I'm looking for something that can pick up the signal and repeat it, ideally giving me the ability to plug an Ethernet device into it as well as they have a laptop with wifi and a desktop that does not have wifi.
wfay said:My parent's neighbor has wifi and told them they are free to use it. Of course, the signal does not penetrate very far into my parent's home, so I'm looking for something that can pick up the signal and repeat it, ideally giving me the ability to plug an Ethernet device into it as well as they have a laptop with wifi and a desktop that does not have wifi.
Could I use the AR670W for this??
Yes, I do believe there has been some successes doing that with the AR670W. Check that thread I linked to in my previous post.
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. Seriously though slowest shipping anywhere.
