Comment by jacobgkau

Interesting. My family had one of the pointy 2Wire ones (the HomePortal 1000 looks like the one), and I don't remember it having issues with WiFi. Then again, all I had to connect at the time was an HP Pavilion running Windows Vista/7 (later Linux) and an iPod Touch. I think we eventually had a Wii and an Epson printer connected wirelessly as well.

Now I do remember some issues getting it to maintain a stable connection to the DSL network at some points, which even daisy-chaining another router wouldn't have fixed. No way to tell if that was the gateway or just the DSL network that was flaky.