i've setup quite a few wireless lan's which several brands of products, and had really never ran into any major problems. But what I use at home is linksys stuff, mainly because the firmwares are open source so there's alot of good 3rd party firmwares out there which let you do heaps more functions, like run xlinkkai for the xbox, increase u'r wireless signal, allow for Quality of Service to prioritise bandwidth(which is the feature i love the most for VOIP). The thing is to be realistic about your distance requirements. General rule of thumb is that a well positioned router will do and average size plaster cavity single story house no problems. Brick, concrete and steel are all killers of wireless signals. If you have some serious requirements though, netgears rangemax serious has 7 internal antenna's.. and are freakin awesome.
Also a quick note to anyone who's thinking about setting up wireless, make sure u lock u'r network down, by both WEP and MAC address.
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