A Networking Upgrade Question
I have been thinking it is about time to upgrade my home LAN equipment. I am currently running an old Netgear Router (Wireless-G, 4 Port 10/100 LAN, WAP Security, MAC address Restriction & IP Allocating, etc.). I most likely will stick with another Netgear since their products have never let me down and I like the feature set they tend to possess OTB.
First off, is Dual Band (300 + 300) Wireless worth getting? The price difference in one with Dual Band and without is about $40 US dollars. Both the laptops in the house are running Wireless-G cards, so we will not be utilizing the full advantages of the Wireless yet. I would like it for the future, but I am more interested in models with WPA2 and a 4 Port Gigabit LAN.
Which brings me to my desktop network card. I have an ASUS M4A785TD-V EVO motherboard that comes with a built in
RTL8112L Gigabit LAN controller, unfortunately in the past it was quite flacky (much like describe here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ux/+bug/573259 ). So I am currently using a 10/100 PCI NIC. I was curious if the support for the RTL8112L has improved, is anyone currently using one?
If the reliability has not improved, is anyone using a NETGEAR GA311 Gigabit Adapter with Kubuntu? When searching the forum I found this: http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthr...=Netgear+GA311 , but not much else. Searching Google was a mixed bag as well. Any other ideas about a very debian/kubuntu friendly gigabit network card?
EDIT : I guess that was more than one question
First off, is Dual Band (300 + 300) Wireless worth getting? The price difference in one with Dual Band and without is about $40 US dollars. Both the laptops in the house are running Wireless-G cards, so we will not be utilizing the full advantages of the Wireless yet. I would like it for the future, but I am more interested in models with WPA2 and a 4 Port Gigabit LAN.
Which brings me to my desktop network card. I have an ASUS M4A785TD-V EVO motherboard that comes with a built in
RTL8112L Gigabit LAN controller, unfortunately in the past it was quite flacky (much like describe here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ux/+bug/573259 ). So I am currently using a 10/100 PCI NIC. I was curious if the support for the RTL8112L has improved, is anyone currently using one?
If the reliability has not improved, is anyone using a NETGEAR GA311 Gigabit Adapter with Kubuntu? When searching the forum I found this: http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthr...=Netgear+GA311 , but not much else. Searching Google was a mixed bag as well. Any other ideas about a very debian/kubuntu friendly gigabit network card?
EDIT : I guess that was more than one question