Comments on: WRT54GX4 in the wild http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/wrt54gx4-in-the-wild?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wrt54gx4-in-the-wild Confessions of a Non-Profit Executive Director Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:36:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: TheLaptopGod http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/wrt54gx4-in-the-wild/comment-page-1#comment-100792 TheLaptopGod Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:57:47 +0000 http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/wrt54gx4-in-the-wild#comment-100792 the WRT54GX4 is still a lousy router. drops the wifi signal way too often. i've pulled it out of client use more than once to solve that issue. the WRT54GX4 is still a lousy router. drops the wifi signal way too often. i've pulled it out of client use more than once to solve that issue.

]]> By: Allan Benamer http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/wrt54gx4-in-the-wild/comment-page-1#comment-70866 Allan Benamer Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:26:39 +0000 http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/wrt54gx4-in-the-wild#comment-70866 The WRT54GX4 doesn't work well in an outdoor environment I've found. The darn thing died on us about a month or two after the post (July 2006). That's not Linksys's fault. Despite our best efforts, the environmental issues surrounding the summer camp we installed it in usually hurt electrical equipment. It's hard to isolate a solution when you the environment was too hot, too wet and had unstable power supplies. I think 100 yards is only possible if there isn't that much foliage and if the WRT54GX4 is mounted on someone's roof. Have you considered getting cheaper WRT54GLs and putting them in a mesh network configuration? I believe you'll have to buy Sveasoft or download it's opensource competitors to update the firmware so you can do the mesh thing. This will work in your case because you're only hopping once from the central WRT54GL. The WRT54GX4 doesn’t work well in an outdoor environment I’ve found. The darn thing died on us about a month or two after the post (July 2006). That’s not Linksys’s fault. Despite our best efforts, the environmental issues surrounding the summer camp we installed it in usually hurt electrical equipment. It’s hard to isolate a solution when you the environment was too hot, too wet and had unstable power supplies. I think 100 yards is only possible if there isn’t that much foliage and if the WRT54GX4 is mounted on someone’s roof.

Have you considered getting cheaper WRT54GLs and putting them in a mesh network configuration? I believe you’ll have to buy Sveasoft or download it’s opensource competitors to update the firmware so you can do the mesh thing. This will work in your case because you’re only hopping once from the central WRT54GL.

]]> By: Ralph http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/wrt54gx4-in-the-wild/comment-page-1#comment-69832 Ralph Tue, 13 Nov 2007 02:18:00 +0000 http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/wrt54gx4-in-the-wild#comment-69832 I am trying to setup a hotspot for myself and 4 neighbors, each 1 of them are about 100 yds from me, 1 to the left 1 to the right and 1 directly across the street. I am looking at the linksys wrt54gx4 and a 11 db exterior antena with rptnc connectors is there anyone out there that can point me in the right direction I am trying to setup a hotspot for myself and 4 neighbors, each 1 of them are about 100 yds from me, 1 to the left 1 to the right and 1 directly across the street. I am looking at the linksys wrt54gx4 and a 11 db exterior antena with rptnc connectors is there anyone out there that can point me in the right direction

]]> By: KeithW http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/wrt54gx4-in-the-wild/comment-page-1#comment-13302 KeithW Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:40:16 +0000 http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/wrt54gx4-in-the-wild#comment-13302 Alan, I love the range of the WRT54GX4 as well, but all my devices seem to have problems dropping connections with it. XP laptops don't report a wireless connection failure, but traffic stops, until I do a "repair connection". A playstation3 does report the network drop, and is offline usually until I cold-boot the router, at which point it reconnects immediately, which points to some problem with the router status, no ? Love to hear more about your experience since July. Alan,

I love the range of the WRT54GX4 as well, but all my devices seem to have problems dropping connections with it. XP laptops don’t report a wireless connection failure, but traffic stops, until I do a “repair connection”. A playstation3 does report the network drop, and is offline usually until I cold-boot the router, at which point it reconnects immediately, which points to some problem with the router status, no ?

Love to hear more about your experience since July.

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