Data

[BD]

Is this the best that Cisco can do?
http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellit ... torWrapper

I'm looking for something more powerful for my home network (2-3 wired, 1-2 wireless).

Main goals are security of the net, parental controls at the router level WITHOUT having to subscribe to anything (mostly blocking but possibly tracking internal users), and reliability.

I don't necessarily want to get into the "my d-link is better than your Linksys" but I'll take specifics of one over the other.

I know Cisco is strong in the business market but I don't know how good their home products will be.

Any others are welcom and requested to please contribute.

Thanks

[Rico]

I specifically bought Cisco because every dollar they take in means Data is employed that much longer.

I think the consumer market is getting to be equal performance at a particular price point.

My Linksys stuff has worked well, and has not required any fiddling on my part.

[Neophyte]

That's basically their 802.11N wireless access point. It was recently
confirmed as an official proposal to the IEEE. Finalizing the 802.11n
standard will probably take some time until 2007, but companies are
starting to release chips now. Expect a firmware update much later to
shore up a formal meeting of the specification.

I'm fairly sure that Linksys, Apple, and Belkin are using Broadcom
chips in their wifi. Broadcom is only announcing speeds up to 300 Mbps on
their chips at this time.

While Atheros is announcing a 600 Mbps chip. Dlink and Netgear are the
big supporters of that chip. Netgear has a product out now, but it's
showing a conservative 240 Mbps.

Real world speeds on any 300 Mbps chip are said to be between 150 -
180 Mbps. I have yet to see a product that is using the 600 Mbps chips.
But its might be too soon to see those. Announcements wre only made
about 1 week ago.

[Dataspel]

I think Neo knows more about this subject than I do.
Not having the budget for cutting edge items, I
do little or no research on them.