Any recommendations for a new wireless access point?

[womzilla]

My study is at the opposite end of the house from the wireless router. nellorat and supergee are at the same end of the house and have superb connectivity, but I'm at the other end and my reception varies from "low" to "no signal". I just bought a better wireless card and that helped some, but not as much as I'd have liked--I just spent fifteen minutes with no connection at all.

So what I'd like is either a new wireless access point (or combined access point/router) which has:

a) strong signal;
b) 802.11g but backwards compatability to 802.11b so I don't have to buy two more new cards right now; and
c) low cost.

Any recs?

Comments

[montoya.livejournal.com]

The Linksys WRT554G is just about the de facto standard wireless router, and is around $50. It has a Wikipedia page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRT54G) all its own, which is bizarre-shading-toward-cool.

[avram]

I think — not certain, but I think — that all 802.11g systems are able to drop back to 802.11b when necessary. The Wikipedia page on IEEE 802.11 has my back: “802.11g hardware will work with 802.11b hardware. Details of making b and g work well together occupied much of the lingering technical process.”

We recently got an 802.11g access point, and we’ve all got recent model laptops with 802.11g cards, and the increased speed kicks ass.

[wizwom.livejournal.com]

Dude, get a power line bridge.
Get the model which puts a WAP at any outlet in the house, and connect to ethernet on the opposite end.