Re: wi-fi - choice of hardware
>From Eugen Leitl on Wednesday, 2004-12-08 at 16:15:49 +0100:
> On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 04:04:43PM +0100, Conrad Newton wrote:
>
> > > Linksys WRT54GS and Sveasoft firmware + fwbuilder. Don't diss Linksys: their
> > > firmware is pure crap, but the hardware (radios) is excellent (you'll need
> > > better aerials than default ones though).
> >
> > I just got one of these, but have not set it up yet.
> > Which aerial do you recommend?
>
> For home use the default ones are adequate. You will only need others if you
> want to increase range (better dB, directional vs. omni) or want weatherproof ones
> for outside mounting (there are hacks for PoE and Linksys weatherproofing,
> but this can be a lot of work).
For the moment I am only interested in home use, but just to satisfy
my curiosity, could you describe an alternate setting where you have
used a different set of antennae?
> There are alternative firmware to Sveasoft's ( http://openwrt.org/ would come
> to mind). I use Sveasoft's, since I mostly use the web interface.
> Talisman is supposed to be released to paying subscribers quite
> soon, so Alchemy will available to the public free of charge.
I was also planning to use the Sveasoft software. What is your
opinion of it? What is the difference in functionality between
Talisman and Alchemy?
Conrad
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