I have a Linksys WR54G (V2) router It works well - except the connection seems to drop under load. For example - if I use a remote yum repository, the downloads only come in as fast as my bandwidth and all is fine. But with local mirror, and all the bandwidth it can handle w/ 802.11g, it often will stall out for a few seconds - requiring me to run yum update again (sometimes multiple times) before all the updates are grabbed. It also does this on occasion when scanning my imap folders (imap server on lan) These problems happen on multiple wireless clients on multiple operating systems, and do not happen on wired clients. There also are occasions where it just dies completely and I have to reboot it. That seems to mostly be caused by large number of network requests (IE bittorrent - I no longer use BT on wireless clients). Other than that it's perfectly fine. It is the wireless router - any ssh shells become unresponsive when this happens, and the Network Monitor applet shows a loss of signal. 1) I know this router uses Linux - and there are some third party firmware that give shell access. Is this something that perhaps could be tweaked to work better? 2) Assuming 1 is a nogo - can someone recommend a good _solid_ 802.11g wifi router? I'm thinking I want to stay away from another consumer model, I want something that works - even if it costs more. Typically I only have a few wireless clients at a time - never more than 5, so one would think a home/consumer model should suffice - but I'd rather have something designed to handle bandwidth than something that has momentary dropouts and occasionally crashes.
