[GTALUG] router upgrade

[James Knott]

On 07/11/2017 09:51 AM, Myles Braithwaite via talk wrote:
> o1bigtenor via talk wrote:
>> I've been running an Asus rt-n16 router, using dd-wrt, for about 6.5
>> years now. On the second one for about 1.5 years and no longer have a
>> spare for the next time the router craters.
>>
>> Am finding it very difficult to determine an update/upgrade for my router.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
> I'm a fan of the TP-Link TL-WR940N, so much that I have recommend it to
> everyone I know. I have three of them in various locations (home, farm,
> and HackLab.TO).
>
> It's base software is amazing and works great out of the box.
>
> I haven't run OpenWRT (an active fork of dd-wrt) on it but I know Scott
> Sullivan has and he's really smart about this type of stuff.
>
> It cost $39.99 on NewEgg <https://myl.be/15a> (this is a short link to
> the NewEgg website).
>

One thing to bear in mind these days is whether a router supports IPv6. 
Some ISPs, such as Rogers, Teksavvy (via ADSL), Cogeco and others are
now providing IPv6.  If your router doesn't support it, you wont be able
to use it.  I don't believe that TP-Link router supports IPv6.  On the
other hand, current versions of DD-WRT do support IPv6.

I'm on Rogers and use pfSense, on a refurb computer, for my firewall/router.
www.pfsense.org