Router Help

Splash out and by a Time Capsule, it is worth the extra expense

 

I have the Airport Extreme Base Station and I love it. You can either do wireless N only or make it compatible with wireless G (which is how I have it set up at home). It's so easy to use and I've never had any problems with it in the year I've had it. I also have an external hard drive connected to it so I can access it from any computer in my house.

 

I have 2 Linksys WRT54GL and run OpenWRT on them. You can expand your range by using WDS, although for every router that extends the range, you effectively halve your bandwidth. I eventually ran wire between the two routers, but it worked well both ways.

 

Keep your old router and set up a separate g-only network for your roommate. Then you can use your new one as n-only for your self.

Then tell your roommate to get with the times!

 

TC (and I'm assuming APE also) can be set to do G&N or N only. I have G devices connected as well as my laptop connected at N speeds with no problem. It just works.

 

Piggyback the Routers. First plug the modem into your new 'with-the-times' router. You can then very simply plug the old router into the new router via cat-5. Limit each of the routers to their respective speeds, and wha-la... you now how have two networks.. one G and one N.

 

I have set up dedicated G and dedicated N only network at home.

Good solution so far if you don't want to run ethernet cable.

Airport Extreme Base Station works great.

 

I'd agree the best thing is to set up a dual network on for n and one for g speeds.

TO expain this try reading the Apple guide "Designing AirPort Networks 10.5 Windows (Manual)" on the Apple suport site at:

http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/Designing_AirPort_Networks_10.5-Windows.pdf