Wireless Router Has Fainting Spells

[Lemur]

A couple questions... did you completely swap out your old router, or just add the linksys to the existing router to make use of its wireless capabilities? Did you ever have this problem with your old router?

Complete swap. The old Netgear router was completely burned out as a wireless device; some Googling showed this was a common problem with the model. The wifi just ... dies. Still a lovely 4-port switch, but useless to me as a household networking device.

Nope, no problems with the Netgear. The file-transfer blues started with the Linksys (which is, as noted, tarted up in dd-wrt drag).

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And I am intrigued by the double-barreled recommendation of powerline networking. Models/makes you guys particularly like/have experience with?