Wireless routers

[Christopher Browne]

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 9:28 PM, Chris F.A. Johnson <chris-E7bvbYbpR6jSUeElwK9/Pw at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
>  I will probably need a wireless router very shortly.
>
>  Can anyone recommend a good, inexpensive model?
>
>  Are there any to stay away from?

The one time that I "searched hard" in the interests of getting
something that could, in principle, run something very particular,
this wound up blowing up on me in that the would-be sophistication of
that configuration outweighed my interest in keeping it (for instance)
backed up.

Yeah, you can get routers that'll run Tomato or OpenWRT, or such, but
it seems to me that this is rather more fragile than getting "some
generic Linksys thing," running it *stock*, with a configuration that
can be described on a sheet of paper kept in a notebook, and which can
be replaced without having to think too hard about it.  I'm finding
that I prefer to treat my router as an appliance that's as dumb as I
can keep it.
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