[clug] Off topic: recommendations for a reliable wireless router?

[Lincoln Smith]

+1 to this.  I recently replaced an old Billion 7400 series with a 
Linksys E3000 off ebay, popped wrt on it and it's been great.  I'd just 
make sure to have a good read of any flashing instructions for any model 
you're interested in, as some have tricky gotchas that are a pain to 
back out of.

On 25/05/13 02:21, Hal Ashburner wrote:
> In my experience every device that someone has been able to make work with
> openwrt, debwrt, dd-wrt, tomato, oleg's firmware or all the others is a
> vastly superior thing than it was when it had the manufacturers own variant.
> My Asus routers are 4-5 years old now and still going strong. This one
> below is running debwrt on an 8G usb stick.  It's a WL-500gP v2
> It's serving up http://ashburner.info/lastsnap.jpg which I am reluctant and
> embarrassed to post here (and it won't be up forever either) but meh, it's
> a webserver I wrote in c++ on a mips router running linux. I actually built
> the source natively on the router too. apt-get install gcc on your router
> for epic win.
> tcpdump, nmap & friends on your router can also be useful.
>
> [hal at bridgewatch 2:09 ~ ] cat /proc/cpuinfo
> system type : Broadcom BCM47XX
> processor : 0
> cpu model : Broadcom BCM3302 V0.6
> BogoMIPS : 263.16
> wait instruction : yes
> microsecond timers : yes
> tlb_entries : 32
> extra interrupt vector : yes
> hardware watchpoint : no
> ASEs implemented :
> shadow register sets : 1
> core : 0
> VCED exceptions : not available
> VCEI exceptions : not available
>
>
>
>
> On 25 May 2013 02:01, Andrew Steele <fozzy at zipworld.org> wrote:
>
>> I'd also be interested in what's recommended.
>>
>> To bring the discussion more on topic, :-) , one item I'd add to my
>> "shopping list" of requirements is that it's capable of being reflashed
>> with openwrt firmware.
>>
>> That does beg a side question.  Are there any devices which have good
>> hardware but who's firmware sucks that people have made a very good device
>> using openwrt?
>>
>> Fozzy
>> On 25/05/2013, at 1:35 AM, miloska wrote:
>>
>>> I have good experience with MikroTik devices, but last time I checked (>1
>>> year ago) the IPv6 support wasn't the best.
>>>
>>> Same as above, YMMV
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 12:59 AM, Brendan Jurd <direvus at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 24 May 2013 23:49, Ben Davies <bdcrux at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> I'm probably goig to steer clear of Netgear - a number of reviews
>>>>> listed recurring problems with dropouts/connection problems/devices
>>>>> dying.
>>>>
>>>> These days I tend to go with TP-LINK stuff, but the usual "small
>>>> sample size" and "Your Mileage" cautions apply.
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