[GTALUG] Wireless routers

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 08:58:23AM -0400, Giles Orr via talk wrote:
> You mentioned DD-WRT.  I'm a fan of OpenWRT, and would recommend their
> buying guide: https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/buyerguide .  Although to
> be entirely honest it's not that great, but it may help.  I choose my
> routers after finding out what Canada Computers has available, then
> looking at OpenWRT's table of supported hardware and ensuring it isn't
> one of the routers that requires you to crack it open to get at the
> JTAG headers or anything like that - ie. the OpenWRT install is easy.
> So look for the equivalent documentation for DD-WRT, do a lot of
> reading, and be particularly aware that if you get a router branded
> for the American market (always a possibility in Canada) that it may
> have the firmware locked - although OpenWRT has apparently already
> found a way around that for most routers.  Do your reading!

I think they all need to be opened to get jtag.  Now if you only need
that in case you really screw up, then I think that is fine.

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Len Sorensen