Last year I bought a new wireless access point to replace my aged netgear rangemax 802.11g point.

I replaced it with a netgear 802.11n device, natural progression..

Turns out none of the iphones would connect to it, was a known issue so that went back and I bought a Linksys 802.11n point.

This worked great until just under a year old it popped and that was that. Sent it back and got a refund.

In a rush and not really paying attention I then bought another netgear 802.11n point.

Now this is where I went wrong, the previous 2 had been 300mbps and I stupidly ordered a 150mbps one! n00b!! Now then it also has a 4 port switch built in... handy I thought... but wait WTF is this, its only 10/100 (welcome to the 1950's) so even if you could reach the advertised 150mbps over the air you still cant get it out the back anyway!!

So I thinks sh!t ok it will probably still be better than the old rangemax 802.11g that I never binned at the start and is still working fine.

No it isn't.. its not even close, comparing the 2, the new one is at least... AT LEAST... 20mbps slower!

Progress eh.. not seeing any here!

Admittedly it's mostly my fault for not paying attention.. but that aside I'm never buying netgear again! How can they get away with 100mbps copper when claiming 150mbps wireless!!

So any suggestions on a good, fast access point with good range and at a decent price?

Maybe slightly off topic as well but i recently discovered these:

http://www.screwfix.com/p/power-ethernet-powerline-socket/41241

Pretty pricey but an incredibly neat solution. I'm surprised there aren't more people selling them.

Maybe slightly off topic as well but i recently discovered these:

http://www.screwfix.com/p/power-ethernet-powerline-socket/41241

Pretty pricey but an incredibly neat solution. I'm surprised there aren't more people selling them.

pity they didnt incorporate USB port as well