Buffalo Airstation Wireless G Router $18.99 AR @ buy.com

[monkeyboy311]

Buffalo Airstation 54Mbps Wireless G Cable/DSL Router - WYR-G54

$38.99 - $20 MIR = $18.99

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If anyone has experince with this, please let me know. It seems like a great price, and im in the market for a wireless G router.

It seems like the WBR-G64 is more feature rich than the WYR-G54. It has Buffalo's Exclusive Intrusion Detector and EOSS support. Does that make it worth the extra $$ ?

 

[kamranziadar]

Not bad but some time you can get it for $9.99 like their was a sale at compusa.

 

[InlineFive]

RossMAN owned me.

 

[RossMAN]

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[serval]

Great router, mine does very well range and speed wise, easy for novice to configure the basic settings. Bridging also supposed to be easy, though the range was so good for me that bridging was not necessary (through 4 walls and across 40 feet, never a weak signal, tried walking away from the 2nd floor appartment but after 120 feet got cold and board so gave up on finding the limit).

However, if anyone has some networking experience, I've been trying to figure out how to allow mine to operate as just a wired/wireless access point on a DSL setup shared with 100 appartment residents ... basically I don't want it to assign an IP address, let the appartment router, which has one line in my room, do it instead; but I just can't figure out how. Any suggestions?

 

[urname7698]

Serval- Just don't connect the WAN port and let your apartment router assign IP addresses - turn off DHCP on this wireless router. Then the wireless router will be just an ethernet hub/switch.

 

[InlineFive]

Originally posted by: serval
Great router, mine does very well range and speed wise, easy for novice to configure the basic settings. Bridging also supposed to be easy, though the range was so good for me that bridging was not necessary (through 4 walls and across 40 feet, never a weak signal, tried walking away from the 2nd floor appartment but after 120 feet got cold and board so gave up on finding the limit).

However, if anyone has some networking experience, I've been trying to figure out how to allow mine to operate as just a wired/wireless access point on a DSL setup shared with 100 appartment residents ... basically I don't want it to assign an IP address, let the appartment router, which has one line in my room, do it instead; but I just can't figure out how. Any suggestions?

Does it support being a repeater and AES encryption?

 

[CyberTron]

does anyone know if u can replace the antenna on this thing? I have a netgear and the antenna is hardwired onto the PCB... thanks

 

[dhoytw]

Looks nice, I have never owned any Buffalo products....it looks as though it's pretty nice for the price AR.

 

[loup garou]

Great deal, Buffalo wireless products are excellent. They need to hire better translators for their firmware/documentation though, sometimes the English is pretty bad. For noobies, configuration can be a bit overwhelming.

Originally posted by: CyberTron
does anyone know if u can replace the antenna on this thing? I have a netgear and the antenna is hardwired onto the PCB... thanks

Almost all Buffalo products have a port for an external antenna.

 

[serval]

Originally posted by: PorBleemo

Does it support being a repeater and AES encryption?

I don't know about the repeater function but IIRC from the manual it is supposed to.
It does support AES encryption (what I'm using currently).

 

[monkeyboy311]

Originally posted by: serval

Originally posted by: PorBleemo
It does support AES encryption (what I'm using currently).

So you have this model?

 

[Smokin Gunn]

Nice Thanks for the post, OP