<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>We seem to have bad luck with wireless routers and tend to go through one at least every six months. The only exception to this was a Linksys WRT54GL Linux router that I flashed with the Tomato firmware which lasted a bit more than a year.<br>
<br></div>Our wireless router does the dialing for the DSL (our DSL modem is in bridged mode), is our DHCP server for computers on the LAN and WLAN. We have a couple of computers connected to the wireless router, but they're actually going through a (couple of) unmanaged 4 port gigabit switches, one of which connects to the wireless router. We also have a small voip box connected to the wireless router. Typically there are only 3 wireless connections at any time to the router.<br>
<br></div>The other day I had some connection problems on one of the LAN computers. Thought it might be one of the switches, but the problems have since disappeared, but I'm thinking I have some major rethinking to do to get our home network in shape.<br>
<br></div>I was thinking of building a wired router (pfsense/untangle/smoothwall) and only using the wireless router as a wireless access point. Thinking I would ditch the two gigabit switches (plastic dlink ones) for a single 8 port one I saw at Canada Computers (TP-Link I think).<br>
<br></div>Suggestions?<br></div>