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AtomSmasher:
I really like my Buffalo WHR-G125 which has a strong wireless connection with my Wii at the opposite side of the house, is compatible with DD-WRT firmware, and was very inexpensive when I bought it a year or so ago. I would highly recommend it, except that they are now very hard to find because Buffalo is no longer allowed to sell wireless G routers due to a lawsuit.
TOK:
I have a Netgear, and while it's good for PC use and the range is good, I've discovered an issue with them... My PSP worked on the wireless network until I put the Wii on there. Now, even though the PSP is connected, it won't surf. Removing the Wii is the only way to get it to work. I though it was something odd that just I was experiencing, then my buddy had a problem with a Netgear router getting two XBox 360's to work simultaneously.
I haven't done anything about the issue yet, he bought a Linksys router and the problem was immediately fixed.
Regarding lightning... I worked in telecomm for years and saw the aftermath of many strikes. A couple were amazing. I saw two houses struck. One crumpled a stone chimney onto a new (at the time) Lexus GS400. I saw another one affect a car. Lightning hit a tree near a Volkswagen Passat and cooked the electrics in it. I got called out to that one right after the strike because the people said they were afraid of a house fire. The Passat was sitting in the driveway with the windshield wipers on even though they weren't switched on. The power door locks were locked and couldn't be opened. The car was being taken away on a rollback by the time I left.
The craziest one I saw was a metal fence strike, which affected a house and car. The lightning the fence somewhere in the side yard. There was tree was leaning against the fence, and the lightning followed the roots about 10 feet across the yard and under the driveway. It blew holes in the ground where it followed the roots and blew asphalt off the driveway where they crossed under. It flattened two of four tires on a car sitting in the driveway. What amazed me is that all of those things very resistant to conductivity (wood, earth, rubber) were still involved. The house was mostly undamaged, though they lost a lot of the sensitive electronics in the house like the microwave, TV's, DVD players and cordless phones.
They did a huge bonding upgrade a couple years ago which alleviated much of the damage associated with the strikes. There were areas where we were grounded to our own ground rods, and became the path of least resistance. Stuff would come to our equipment and blast the crap out of it.
Jdurg:
There is so much voltage and energy involved in a lightning strike that everything will "conduct" it regardless of whether or not it's a classic conductor. Even rubber will have electricity flow through it due to the intense energy involved in the strike.
massive88:
Get a router that allows for DD-WRT and you are set.
All my Buffalo routers have been champs, though it appears Atom is correct, and you cant find em anymore.
Go look up what routers take DD-WRT and go from there imo.
boykster:
I would get a Linksys WRT54GL
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833124190
and put Tomato on it:
http://www.polarcloud.com/firmware
I used to run DD-WRT, but IMHO Tomato is better.
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