Ended up buying a new Cisco 1142 AP from a known auction site. Paid 195 USD which is the same as the used ones. Got the LAP version, so had to convert it to standalone - but no big deal.
It's been running stable since day one. Very good coverage in all 3 floors (wooden house), and it's still...
If you're more after a feature rich OS with great support including forums, documentation and regular OS updates, you should definitely go for Synology. Netgear haven't released any new firmware for my NAS since I got it, but still..never had any problem with it .- it just runs.
Any special...
Sorry for the bad title. I guess it will only be advanced if I go for a real access point, and set it ut with multiple SSIDs on different VLANs :)
But as said, it will only be used it for switching packets. Routing is handled by my firewall which I have running in ESXi.
..can't find any...
I have both Netgear and Synology. I started with a single disk Synology ds107 years and years ago. After a couple of disk crashes I decided to switch to a RAID NAS. So about six months ago I bought the Netgear Ultra 4 which is comparable to the Synology DS413J. I wanted the option to run 4 disks...
I have a D-link dir-615 wireless router. I am only using this as an access point, so it's only connected to my router by a switch port. I am now replacing this because I have to restart it several times during a week (very unstable).
I have looked into different brands and models and found...