[GTALUG] open source routers
Giles Orr
gilesorr at gmail.com
Wed Oct 15 19:41:09 UTC 2014
On 15 October 2014 14:33, Dave Cramer <davecramer at gmail.com> wrote:
> My old linksys wrtg54 with dd-wrt locks up. I am looking for suggestions for
> a new router that will accept open source router firmware?
http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/start
Don't know if you're dedicated to dd-wrt: this is of course OpenWRT.
(Ah, Chris has sent this as I'm writing).
My understanding is that, as a brand, TP-Link has been the least
obstructive and makes pretty good products at a reasonable price:
Canada Computers carries a number of them. I own (among other old
WAPs) a TP-Link MR-3020, which has worked fine - but it's not a home
router, it's a lightweight thing for Pirate Boxes or single user
connections.
I've also been given to understand that Linksys's replacement for the
WRT-54g that they recently put out there with much fanfare, the
1900AC, is A) expensive, and B) not as open as they claim it is, and
therefore not working terribly well as a replacement for the WRT-54G.
If you were okay with the throughput of the WRT-54G, they can be had
used from the usual suspects (I got mine at garage sales, but that's
hit-and-miss - mostly "miss") for $10 or $15.
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Giles
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