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The Zyxel AG-225H WiFi finder

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by itgirli

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So my cousin had one of these Zyxel AG-225H at Thanksgiving and gave us all a network to latch our little laptops to around the house. My SO wants one, and I'm willing to get him one for x-mas. First I figured I'd throw it around on here and see if any of you out there have one, and see how you like it. Or if you have something like it that seems to work well for you. Basically another of those "T'is the season/what to get him" threads. I appreciate all useful information. Useless information will be readily ignored!

Here's some info on it: http://us.zyxel.com/products/model.php?indexcate=1126285373

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by michael kassner

There are three devices that display a useful amount of information ZyXEL, Trendnet and Linksys, in fact they are almost identical in appearance and function.

I ran some tests on most of the Wi-Fi locators and found these three to be the best at locating Wi-Fi sources, but not what I would consider good enough. All of them missed sources that they should have picked up. This alone was enough to kick them out of my backpack. If that concern is not a primary one then they can be very useful.

As for the ability to act as USB wireless client adapters or AP, I also was not impressed with the ZyXEL, as it displayed very erratic behavior.

by itgirli

If I'm going to spend money on somethign like this, would you have an recommendations on which brand produces better, more regularly?

And thank you for your information.

by michael kassner

All three had the same tendencies. I am not sure, but I suspect that one manufacturer makes the internals and they get different branding and cases.

The devices work well at showing what networks are available for the most part. I just did not like the fact that when compared to a notebook running NetStumbler or AirMagnet there were instances when all three missed the strongest RF signal in the vicinity. I could not determine any rhyme or reason for that behavior, it just was odd.

The advantage these three have over all the rest is the ability to publish whether the available networks are locked or not.

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