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 (<a href="http://www.ubnt.com/">http://www.ubnt.com/</a>). 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. <div>
<br></div><div>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. <div>
<br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>--j<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Smith, Craig A <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Craig.A.Smith@honeywell.com">Craig.A.Smith@honeywell.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple">
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">No experience with Buffalo, but I’ve run
a succession of Linksys 54 wireless routers – both C and G.<span> </span>After a couple of years they become
unreliable, requiring frequent reboots.<span>
</span>My Apple Airport Express stopped working after several years (used
mostly for travel, so spends the bulk of the time turned off).</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">IMHO, all consumer-grade gear is junk, so get
the cheapest and buy a cold-spare.<span> </span>Microcenter
had a Tenda W311R (N) on sale for $30 last time I needed an AP.<span> </span>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).<span> </span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Nice touch: should you need to press the “reset”
button, they helpfully print the default ip address and password on the label.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></font></p>
</div>
</div>
<br>_______________________________________________<br>
TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota<br>
<a href="mailto:tclug-list@mn-linux.org">tclug-list@mn-linux.org</a><br>
<a href="http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list" target="_blank">http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list</a><br>
<br></blockquote></div><br></div></div>