[GTALUG] Router advice sought

ted leslie ted.leslie at gmail.com
Mon Jan 30 14:43:52 EST 2017


​Asus AC line been pretty good to me. I program some of the firmware on
that line (so no bias here!! :) ), but seriously had very little trouble
with it, and like the fact I just ssh into it, even x-compiled tcpdump, and
other tools i need to dev on it (and generally have a nice linux env.).

-tl​

On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 2:37 PM, William Park via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
wrote:

> I have Asus RT-N66U, which is at the top in Wireless-N market.  I
> haven't "upgraded" to AC yet.
> --
> William
>
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 01:40:29PM -0500, Stewart C. Russell via talk
> wrote:
> > Thanks! The Asus looks neat, especially with the even more special deal
> > at Canada Computers this week taking it to $84. It's not supported by
> > LEDE, though.
> >
> > The Linksys WRT1900ACS that Lennart mentioned looks solid, but it's
> > still a bit pricey refurb at $170. Still, it's supported by OpenWrt and
> > LEDE, and Linksys seem to be cool with using third party firmwares.
> >
> > Perhaps niftiest deal of all at Canada Computers is the TP-Link Archer
> > C2600 on special offer from $250 to $130 this week. I'm getting mixed
> > messages whether this uses locked and signed firmware, because LEDE say
> > that it's supported. I remember that Lennart and Hugh had an exchange
> > about the Archer C7. Hmm.
> >
> > Thanks, again,
> >  Stewart
> >
> >
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