We have been putting alot of On q Inceiling WAPs in lately. Motorola make the "guts" of it. I like them alot, they direct the signal out like a upsidedown mushroom cloud. You can stick it in the sweet spot of a home with out having it on a table in the middle of the living room.
As for range I havent yet measured it. I usually use my Axim with a symbol lowpower card. The card/ chipset makes as much or more difference as the WAP itself. I get almost double the range with this card compared to my original linksys or dell trumobile card. I have a Linksys WRT54g router/switch. The WRT54g WAS the best consumer grade WAP, and if you flash the firmware with a hacked version you could pump up the output.
Cisco. I have no model numbers, my only experiance with Cisco is that I put a switch in for the Social Security building. If you go with Cisco you will need to get some Cisco training they do some things their own way.
Something else to remember, Qwest DSL is shipping the Actiontec GT701-WG modem/router. It has a built in NAT firewall, if you were to go into another router/switch with a NAT firewall, you will need to either DMZ to the second router or bridge. The best thing to do is get a modem that doesnt have a NAT firewall built in. That being said double natting isnt an issue if the client has no need to allow connection to a local machine from a outside source. Bittorrent, hosting games (xbox live, or PC games) email servers, web servers etc are some examples of where double NAT will be problem.
http://www.dslreports.com/ if you run into a double NAT issue they can help you out of it.
