Just to chime in I do go through the linksys routers (and they look bad under x-ray at the airport) but my favorite professional grade (but still affordable) APs are the Ubiquti line (http://www.ubnt.com/). I've got a couple of the PicoStation2 HP ones and a Bullet2 as well. But they have the new AirRouter line out which would pretty much meet your requirements and looks like it is only 39$ or so. They are fairly tough, I've traveled quite a bit with them and never had an issue, also had one up on the outside of my house for a year or two and had no issues. The Pico and Bullet are both POE and sealed enclosures so they are designed to be run outside or anywhere you need them. They have a great OS on them which will allow you to do most everything you need to but they can all also run DD-WRT or OpenWRT. --j On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Smith, Craig A < Craig.A.Smith at honeywell.com> wrote: > No experience with Buffalo, but I’ve run a succession of Linksys 54 > wireless routers – both C and G. After a couple of years they become > unreliable, requiring frequent reboots. My Apple Airport Express stopped > working after several years (used mostly for travel, so spends the bulk of > the time turned off). > > > > IMHO, all consumer-grade gear is junk, so get the cheapest and buy a > cold-spare. Microcenter had a Tenda W311R (N) on sale for $30 last time I > needed an AP. It’s been running for almost a year now and has similar > features to the Linksys (integrated 4-port switch, web-config, and > port-forwarding so I can access my home Linux server and security cameras > from anywhere on the internet). > > > > Nice touch: should you need to press the “reset” button, they helpfully > print the default ip address and password on the label. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20101020/6287254e/attachment.htm