Open Source Router To Replace WRT54GL? 344
jeremyz writes "With the inclusion of 802.11n in more and more Wi-Fi devices, the WRT54GL is losing its usefulness, even though it's still the de-facto standard for open source, Linux-running wireless routers. I've been looking around for a 802.11n router to replace the WRT54GL, but haven't really found anything besides the Netgear's WNR3500L. At first look, the WNR3500L looked great, but after some further investigation, I found that Netgear hasn't released all of the source, as they should have to comply with the GPL. Are there any good 802.11n routers to replace my aging WRT54GL?"
ALIX (Score:5, Insightful)
PC Engines' ALIX routers are my favorite: http://www.pcengines.ch/alix.htm [pcengines.ch]
(no I don't work for them, I'm not even from Europe)
They have all kind of configuration options, removable storage, lots of case options, they're reliable and they're pretty fast. They run a few distros, including OpenWRT, so you can choose what your favorite Linux or BSD router distro is and have at it.
NO gig-e low # ports and pci bus for most of them (Score:3, Informative)
NO gig-e low number of ports and pci bus for most of them and most of them don't even have more then 1 pci slot.
to make a one that can use gig-e and n wifi pci-e is better.
Re:NO gig-e low # ports and pci bus for most of th (Score:5, Insightful)
You realize it's a router, not a switch, right? This is going to be hooking up to your ISP... which probably isn't anywhere near fast ethernet, let alone gigabit. If you want gigabit, hook it up to a gigabit switch. If your network edge is gigabit, get real networking hardware because nothing netgear (or PC Engines) sells is going to handle that extremely well.
As far as wifi, it's mini-pci, so you can choose whatever hardware you want. Want a really nice high watt atheros N card? You can use it and you can easily use any antenna you want as well.
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Where can you get a gig-e connection at home?
Seriously, that's total bullshit. I don't think I've heard of a consumer connection that does over 100mbps let alone 1000mbps. Hell, even the new VDSL2+ that was reported a few days ago maxed out at around 250mbps.
If you're going to make claims like this, at least have the sense to back it up.
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Or DS3. After all, some people have AT&T or Qwest.
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And its either 10, 100, or 1000Mbit ethernet. 250 > 100.
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I think there was one provider overseas who stated that they intended to offer 100Mb/s to the customer. Since most of us are in the US, we aren't going to see those kinds of speeds any time soon.
I had a quick look at the Verizon FiOS site. 50Mb/20Mb was the fastest residential line they offer. For business customers, they offer a 35Mb/35Mb account if (for those serving or uploading), or the 50Mb/20Mb which would be more targeted towards offices who are downloading more than
Re:NO gig-e low # ports and pci bus for most of th (Score:4, Informative)
One of my local ISPs in Portugal is offering a home connection of 1gpbs (up and down), plus HD TV for 250E / month. Yes, it's expensive, but it's not a 5 figure, not by a long shot.
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I'm also from Portugal.
Although you are technically correct, if you are referring to ZON's service, I should say that I highly doubt they'll deliver the 1Gbps they claim (given all my previous experiences with this ISP).
Also, given the arbitrary download limits they have, I'm not so sure a 1Gbps pipe from ZON is a good idea (i.e. in the contractual fine print, they say you have unlimited data transfers up to "reasonable levels of consumption" but NOWHERE does it specify an actual objective limit; if you do
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Re:NO gig-e low # ports and pci bus for most of th (Score:5, Informative)
Real 100mbps do require gigabit. If a router is rated for 100mbps, that's its theoretical limit. It won't actually support constant 100mbps.
Not everyone is from the US, you insentivide clod. We have fiber to home [google.com] up to 1Gbps.
200mbps + 116 HD channels + Phone w/ unlimited calls = 100E/month.
Re:NO gig-e low # ports and pci bus for most of th (Score:4, Funny)
"Where can you get a gig-e connection at home?"
Sweden, where an old lady has a 40Gbps connection. [slashdot.org]
You must be new here.
Re:NO gig-e low # ports and pci bus for most of th (Score:5, Informative)
Cablevision's Optimum Ultra is rated at 101mbps. And they recommend a Gig-e router to get close to the rated speed. Docsis 3 standard is good for up to 171/343 mbps depending on the number of allocated channels so it's conceivable that most cable providers will be able to pass the 100 mbps barrier in the near future. So if one buys a router these days, it's a good idea to future proof it and get one that has gig-e ports.
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I got a gigabit connection at home. So do all my 1650 neighbors that live in this apartment complex.
Download test to a server local to the ISP (it is NOT on my home network): /dev/null http://bolignet.farummidtpunkt.dk/1GB [farummidtpunkt.dk]
baldur@pkunk:~$ wget -O
2010-04-25 10:32:37 (111 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [1073741824/1073741824]
Download test to a server in a different country and a different ISP: /dev/null http://speedtest.tele2.net/1GB.zip [tele2.net]
baldur@pkunk:~$ wget -O
2010-04-25 10:36:42 (13,8 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [107
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Most...
There are some charts for various dsl modems showing bandwidth and connection capabilities. The units which can handle a significant amount of traffic are not in the low range regarding cost.
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As somebody who lives in Australia, I have to say you probably have no idea what you're talking about...haha
That, or you bought into Telstra's reality distortion field. That 100Mbps service they're offering in Melbourne, is available to a very small minority only - it's available to about a million people in total, I believe, but most of those won't get anywhere near those speeds.
http://www.misaustralia.com/viewer.aspx?EDP://1268174866621
Also, the demand for it is terrible, probably because of the aby
Re:NO gig-e low # ports and pci bus for most of th (Score:4, Informative)
You're absolutely right. Several years ago, we were looking at firewall solutions for our GigE pipes. Lots of people had GigE copper inputs, but when we pushed for details it always came down to the simple fact that their hardware couldn't push that kind of traffic.
We looked at building our own PC based boxes to do it. It all came down to the fact that the cards couldn't really push the speeds.
The only solution for GigE that can achieve full line speed is the proper hardware, and you're going to pay a premium for that. You want to route or switch GigE speeds, you're going to put in something like a Cisco Catalyst 6500 series switch (or better). You can pick up a 6500 fairly cheap these days on eBay. Well, cheap in relative terms. It won't be anywhere near the cost of a Linksys AP. :)
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I have a router with gigabit ports. Know why? Because feeding a 300Mbit wireless link from a 100Mbit wired link is sad.
If you need 802.11n, odds are you want more than 100Mbit/s into it.
And yes, I do watch HD media over the air, so 802.11g with it's nominal 54Mbit is not enough. Granted, most of my media is under 20/30Mbit, but it also needs to read ahead to buffer at startup, and get a consistent throughput of at least the bitrate of the media.
I'm sure your next snark would be to tell me to get separate 80
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It's also going to be tying your wired and N speed wireless ports.
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If you need gigabit routing, soekris is coming out with some new boards that have it, but they're 2x+ as expensive as an Alix. They aren't listed on their main page right now, i believe i heard about it through one of the community forums.
I've got an Alix 2D13 with an Atheros 5416 card in it, works fine with pfSense but the 802.11n rates don't work yet so it's still doing 54g at the moment, stable though. Hopefully once freebsd gets 802.11n rate support it will be a good router for years to come. 802.11n on
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Soekris gear is a bit on
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Larry, do you mind answering a question for the clueless?
You're talking about building your own router, right? Not just buying some Linksys and putting DD-WRT or something but getting a regular pc case and a motherboard, power supply, etc?
Do I have that right? If I wanted to have 802.11n all around my house (which requires me to use a router in bridge mode), would I be able to do that by building the kind of router you're talking about? I've been wondering the same thing that I believe the poster of this
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You can do it, you just have to be picky about the hardware. Only a handful of wireless-N cards on Linux can work as an AP, and a lot of them are a bit older and harder to find. Though your options open up a bit if you're willing to settle for ad-hoc mode.
Personally, I went with the WNR3500L. Despite the problems noted in the summary, DD-WRT has worked very well for me on it.
Here you go (Score:5, Informative)
DDWRT Supported Devices [dd-wrt.com]
CTRL+F
"b/g/n"
Conversation over.
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Build your own out of Mini-ITX with, compact flash, mini-pci wi-fi, PCI etherenet switch.
For the lulz.
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seconded.
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My memory is a little fuzzy on this - but it seems to me that there was some patent issue with Buffalo and they weren't allowed to sell their b/g routers in the US for a while?
I have a Buffalo B/G router - bought specifically for it's high compatibility with DD-WRT. Best purchase of a router that I've ever made, rock friggin solid - even with the Buffalo stock firmware, never had a day of downtime unlike my netgear that would freak the moment I opened up utorrent.
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Buffalo finally resolved their patent issues and is back after a long hiatus. I have one of their whr-g300n wireless n routers. I've had it for a few months and sadly today it crapped out. dd-wrt is on it so no warranty for me either. Worked great until today.
Re:Here you go (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Here you go (Score:5, Insightful)
Yes 'openwrt' which mocks new users and slams any questions with RTFM yet there is no manual and other obnoxious crap. Also their 'product' is as immature as they are with many user reports of bricked routers which the 'developers' h00t and h0ller and mock the user about.
Re:Here you go (Score:5, Informative)
The complaint about documentation is spot on. Following the documentation link for the latest release on the main page leads you to a page with an empty "Installation" section. The download link leads to a directory containing the various architecture specific image files, with no information on how to choose the correct one. At that point, most prospective users probably probably throw up their hands and go elsewhere, which is a shame.
However, OpenWRT itself is a nice system, and if the developers want to concentrate on the system, I can't blame them. For interested users, start with the Wiki. Some digging for various documentation may be required, but most of the important stuff is there somewhere. If you have given the search an honest effort, the forums will likely be a lot more receptive to your questions.
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If you have to go "digging" for the documentation, the project developers and maintainers have failed. The documentation should be clearly laid out, and if it is a project intended for any level of user, not just experience sysadmins, the documentation needs to cover the most rudimentary basics as well as the more advanced stuff.
Furthermore, if you have to go and install tftp to push a firmware update via a router's recovery mode, you need to provide the utilities to do so, and wrap them with a basic GUI so
Re:Here you go (Score:5, Insightful)
what? someone complains that the docs are bad so it's their responsibility to fix it? hey, i can see that the docs are bad, and i have NO idea what they should say - should I fix it? would you want me to fix it? NO. the GGP's complaint is valid.
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hey, i can see that the docs are bad, and i have NO idea what they should say - should I fix it? would you want me to fix it?
That's how wikis work.
I hope that is not how wikis work. I hope that wiki articles are written by those who actually know something on a subject - not by those in search of knowledge on a subject.
But perhaps this is open source documentation in a nutshell. If we all create what we need ourselves and share it with the world, documentation will be created by those who don't know how the software works - otherwise they would not need the documentation.
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DD-WRT isn't as open as it could be: http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/columns/article.php/3816236 [wi-fiplanet.com] This is the reason that I'm currently running openwrt+gargoyle on my wrt54g. Gargoyle (the browser-based interface) actually isn't all that great -- very bare-bones.
My experience is that the real problem with consumer-grade routers has very little to do with the quality or openness of the software. The real problem I've always had with the damn things is that the hardware seems to be crap. I've been through three
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Ya' know when I saw that Brainslayer was moving to X86 platforms with DD-WRT I felt a bit of joy... then I saw he was going to charge for it and the builds weren't freely available and I felt a bit of Sveasoft angst. :-( At that time I also began to have some issues with my WRT54G running the code and moved to Tomato and have had few issues ever since.
However, I would REALLY like to be able to grab a low powered, spare, X86 computer and run it as a router. Dump all the issues with "flashing" and just find a
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Yeah, this thought has occurred to me as well. The thing is, it would definitely eat up a lot of space on a shelf. Also, you don't find too many garage-sale or hangar-queen x86 systems that are energy-efficient, quiet, and
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enuf said.
Cmdr Taco would be proud.
I usually recommend Linksys hardware (and DD-WRT as the software); though finding a newer Linksys with the ability to hook up an external antenna is ...well...not as easy. (plus some models are prone to overheating)
Crosscheck with OpenWRT list (Score:2, Interesting)
DDWRT Supported Devices [dd-wrt.com]
That's what I thought too. Until I bought an Asus RT-N10 and till today, no wireless. It's basically a cheapskate home router, with the words "Open Source" on the packaging.
The Asus RT-N10 is listed in 3 different places as dd-wrt compatible.
Ergo, this router is fully compatible, until you buy one. Then you find out:
Therefore, do not just rely on the dd-wrt l
Soekris Engineering (Score:3, Informative)
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The Soekris platforms are getting a bit dated. You may have some of the same problems with the Soekris that you'd have with a WRT54G: slow CPU, only 10/100 ethernet, etc. On the other hand, the Soekris are i386-compatible, generally have more memory, and you can add gobs of flash and other options. The latest stuff (net55xx) is somewhat faster, but even that's a bit dated and limited performance-wise, sadly.
I built my own... (Score:5, Interesting)
I was in the same situation... WRT45GL just wasn't cutting it anymore.
So I bought a small ITX board that supports PCI-E, at least 1GB of RAM, a dual-interface PCI-E network card, a case that could house it and a good gigabit switch. I currently run pfSense 1.2.3 off a 1GB USB flash drive.
I deal only with wired clients in my network so this doesn't address the Wifi portion of the question.
I'm not listing any hardware because it changes all too often.
This is the expensive route to go but I felt it was worth it for my needs.
More than likely you won't need the PCI-E dual-interface network card and an onboard dual-nic ITX board would suffice. I just happened to have mine from a previous project.
I built mine before the Intel Atom craze hit the streets. I don't know if they are powerful enough from experience although I'm sure you'd be fine.
As always with hardware and networking, YMMV.
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I doubt any of the atom processors would even blink at a little firewall chain. A modem pentium chip has more then enough power to handle most routing needs.
Now, if you want to support some really high end traffic then you have other things to worry about other then processor limitations.
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or WRT54GL + built-in ADSL; would simplify things (Score:2)
No, really, I want a direct WRT54GL successor with ADSL, n and USB for external storage or webcam. Its look, its industrial form, is simply too good to abandon... ;/
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Most DSL providers will give you a bridging adapter when you subscribe, i'd rather they just give me the equipment i need to terminal an ethernet connection and take it from there.
What do you gain by keeping the ADSL connection itself inside the router?
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In part of the world I live they offer either USB "modems" or, via ridiculous premium, a router with ADSL of their choosing. Of course a model which is a complete shit usually anyway.
Less clutter (also control-wise), less PSUs, less energy used is no gain?
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I would love this too, and would buy it in an instant.
There is benefit to a smart unified home gateway.
Not everyone wants multiple devices to power, administer and troubleshoot.
Now, people who live with just one device are usually stuck with whatever their DSL provider give them -- a device with limited features or configurability.
ASUS RT-N16 (Score:4, Informative)
The ASUS RT-N16 is the best consumer product I've found for dd-wrt so far. 128Mb RAM and 480mHz processor, 802.11n and 2 usb ports.
And for those satisfied with a -G consumer router, (Score:2)
the Asus WL-520GU and GL models are available for less than $30 and run DD-WRT flawlessly. I picked up multiples for WDS and they have been up 24/7. Performance is awesome, stability is perfect, and cost is less than dinner.
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Unfortunately it's 2.4GHZ only. Isn't 802.11n supposed to also support a higher less congested frequency? 5GHZ right? Aside from the Appple offering what other 802.11n based router supports that? 2.4GHZ is pretty congested and my microwave blasts it but my higher frequency phone shrugs it off...
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Wikipedia is your friend. 802.11n supports both 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands, using the same channels as b/g and a. This means that on 5ghz not only do you have fewer devices competing for resources, but you also have non-overlapping channels. So when you want to take up 2 channels for the higher speed 40MHz mode, you can often find a section on 5 that has 0 conflicts.
Look for a router that supports a/b/g/n. The best ones are "simultaneous dual band". Just "dual band" means it can use 2.4GHz or 5GHz, but not neces
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Found the NetGear WNDR3700 in another posting. 64MB of RAM and 8MB of flash with USB ports on-board. It's dual band!
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?Item=N82E16833122326 [newegg.com]
Not cheap but not too hateful either. Supposedly OpenWRT supports it and DD-WRT will soon. I don't own one but this might just be my next router :-)
No suggestions, but ... (Score:2)
Keep in mind that the WRT54G's have a relatively slow CPU and couldn't even max out G. Bridging between the wifi and the built in switch is, AFAIR, a software affair, so even using it as a pure AP is less-than-full-throughput.
WNDR3700 (Score:2)
WNDR3700 + dd-wrt should fit well once dd-wrt is out of alpha/beta.
Buffalo Technology gets my vote. (Score:2, Informative)
Buffalo Technology http://www.buffalotech.com/ [buffalotech.com] is my starting point for all my future networking needs. I don't need anything more than a windows compatable 802.11g router for the foreseeable future, so I have no experience with linux compatability or open source availability.
I bought a WHR-HP-G54 a few years back and am thrilled with it. I think I've only needed to reboot it twice since I bought it and neither time was the routers fault. Possibly the simplest to get working, user friendliest, least problem
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I was just shopping last night for a similar router that would support 802.11n and I found the Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH router. It looks like this router supports DD-WRT and it appears that it will even ship with DD-WRT as the default firmware in a month or two [dd-wrt.com]. That's what I'll be buying.
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Unfortunately it doesn't support 5GHZ frequencies. It's not high priced though and their supporting DD-WRT is awesome but I really would liek a dual band router if possible. The NETGEAR WNDR3700 seems to support what I want but I've yet to try it. I too have been using Tomato on a WRT54G and would like a good replacement that MUST support 3rd party firmware...
I'm very happy with my asus wl-500w (Score:4, Informative)
I'm very happy with the unit for the following reasons:
1) crack it open and you can remove the wireless card and replace it with your own.
2) will run with openwrt
3) I'm shocked at the amount of abuse mine took. The wireless card had been glued to the router board using some kind of foam. I think the combination of the glue used and the heat from the device made it stick together strongly. I ended up using a pair of scissors to pry them apart and I thought for certain I had ruined either the card of the router board. Much to my surprise when I unbent the clips for the card it started working fine (I was prepared to trash the router in order to try and get the card out).
4) I've flashed the unit several times between the stock and various other images. The thing always comes back from the dead if you take your time and understand what you're doing. I guess it's firmware has some issue in how it addresses the interfaces which causes a conflict when trying to run something like FON (or so I'm told. Not certain how this applies if you're running openwrt). I bought mine a few years ago now when the N standard wasn't on a lot of hardware at the time. I haven't tested it's functionality in that regard.
I'm planning on buying a decent Atheros based card for it and use it in Sept. Hope this was helpful in some way.
Cheers, S.
Re:I'm very happy with my asus wl-500w (Score:5, Funny)
God I love slashdot.... always the best advice!
Trendnet TEW-652BRP (Score:2, Informative)
Usually goes for $35
Nearly Identical to the more expensive Dlink DIR-615
Runs incredibly well on DD-WRT firmware
--or--
Compile your own firmware from Trendnet's source code.
http://www.trendnet.com/downloads/list_gpl.asp [trendnet.com]
Haven't seen free N yet (Score:3, Interesting)
Lack of free firmware(I need Tomato) is the reason I'm still on 802.11g in my home. I have an WRT54G as the main router and an ASUS WL-520GU creating a wireless bridge to the living room.
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dd-wrt on a Linksys WRT600N (atheros chipset) has had N for quite some time now.
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There are Tomato branches that support 802.11n (and Linux 2.6-based kernels). The linksysinfo.org forums are performing maintenance at the moment, so I can't give you a link. However, checkout the Tomato sub-forum, and it is a stickied thread.
Bump it up (Score:2)
the link says 36Mbps while actual throughput on the graphs is 18-19Mbps, half duplex of course.
A direct replacement with GigE and 802.11n along with the change-able antennas would be perfect.
C'mon Linksys, bring it on!!!!
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TP-Link WR1043ND (Score:2)
Here's Three with USB (Score:5, Informative)
The ASUS RT-N16, Linksys WRT610N, and Netgear WNR3500L look promising. They're all supported by dd-wrt and in theory could work with openwrt. The Asus is some nice hardware [openwrt.org] for $90.
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Reading lots of posts here with good hardware. Add to your list the NETGEAR WNDR3700 which is dual band and is supported by OpenWRT with DD-WRT apparently working on it. http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?Item=N82E16833122326 [newegg.com]
Buffalo also makes one that looks interesting but isn't dual band http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833162031 [newegg.com]
Just for completion... (Score:2)
The WRT160NL [linksysbycisco.com] was designed to be the direct successor to the WRT54GL. It doesn't seem to have taken off, though, and while it supports Wireless N, for whatever reason, it doesn't support Gigabit Ethernet.
guruplug (Score:2, Informative)
Tomato? (Score:3, Insightful)
Any chance that any of these support tomato? Can't use dd-wrtafter running tomato.
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Look here . . . http://www.linksysinfo.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=160 [linksysinfo.org]
It's a Lynksys forum, but the Tomato subforum is what you are looking for.
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No he's saying he likes Tomato a great deal and DD-WRT is lacking by comparison. If he's going to switch hardware there's no issue with overflashing Tomato as he'd be on different hardware...
Linksys Refurbished WRT610N-RM (Score:3, Informative)
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root@AptGetMooN:~# uptime
03:26:38 up 46 days, 1:23, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
root@AptGetMooN:~# uname -a
Linux AptGetMooN 2.6.24.111 #785 Tue Feb 23 05:15:36 CET 2010 mips unknown
Release: 02/23/10 (SVN revision: 13972)
I had originally bought it because my apartment compelx has so many 2.4GHz access points and other devices in the band that I can't get any reasonable, sustained throughput and levels of packet loss on a
RouterStation Pro (Score:5, Interesting)
-gigE
-mini pci slot for wifi cards
-enough ram for pretty much anything
(some assembly required
I do not work for them, and am not payed by them, just a happy user
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add my vote for ubiquiti gear. it's seriously great, their official firmware is linux based, and they even give instructions to install thirdparty fw (hell, the routerstation only as a thirdparty firmware)
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Looks damned nice but won't that add up pretty good by the time you're done building it? NOT knocking it but I'd love to see a full build with hardware specs and testing documented somewhere!
Re:RouterStation Pro (Score:4, Informative)
I got a kit from Netgate [netgate.com] that has the board, case, and choice of wireless card for about $300. It's expensive, but so far it's worth it.
TP-LINK TL-WR1043ND (Score:2)
802.11n, gigabit ethernet, usb2 port, ath9k-based and pretty cheap. Anything else you'd need?
ASUS RT-N16 (Score:5, Informative)
The ASUS RT-N16 is an awesome router that is supported by DD-WRT [dd-wrt.com] and has been reported to work with Tomato. The stock firmware is pretty good too. It has some impressive specifications:
You should be able to find one for about $100.
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If Tomato supports N on that, I'll need to get one. I've got a Asus 500 with Tomato that has been awesome blocking the annoyingly large amount of spam connection attemps(500/sec+) my mailserver gets, but it lacks the GigE ports the N16 has.
Slight bummer it doesn't seem to do 5GHz...
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Here's some info on installing Tomato on the RT-N16.
http://www.linksysinfo.org/forums/showthread.php?t=63587 [linksysinfo.org]
The forums are temporarily down for upgrades. (good timing! :P )
Why replace the whole router just to get 802.11n? (Score:5, Interesting)
Keep your WRT54G, and just upgrade the wireless to 802.11n. I did it with an AirPort Express connected to one of the ethernet ports in bridge mode. In the real world, 802.11n rarely saturates the 100baseT ethernet, so you get almost all the speed, without having to reconfigure everything from scratch. As a bonus, you can still host a separate 802.11b/g network on the old router to support legacy devices without jamming up your N network.
ar71xx platform (Score:2)
I don't have a specific model to recommend, but pretty much all the most powerful routers today are on the Atheros ar71xx platform. Atheros is much better than Broadcom at supporting open drivers.
https://dev.openwrt.org/wiki/ar71xx [openwrt.org]
Best device for VPN support? (Score:2)
I had a WRV54G, which I always hoped would get DD-WRT support. There were some attempts, but it never really got off the ground. The WRV54G had hardware IPSec support in the Broadcom chip it was based on.
I've never located another home wifi router which supported Linux and some form of VPN. IPSec or SSL-VPN would be nice. Anyone know of devices that can do this?
ASUS RT-N16 (Score:2, Informative)
WRT320N (Score:2, Informative)
EFF! There's a target for you! (Score:2)
Netgear hasn't released all of the source, as they should have to comply with the GPL.
Sue the bastards! [eff.org]
Netgear WNDR 3700 (Score:3, Informative)
DLink DIR-825 rev B (Score:3, Informative)
Much though it pains me (as a former Ubicom employee) to say it, I would recommend avoiding the earlier DIR-825 rev A which uses a Ubicom processor. Although Ubicom now offers some kind of Linux SDK, as far as I know there is currently no third-party firmware that will run on the DIR-825 rev A. The hardware revision is on the label of the package, and also the rev A and rev B look somewhat different, so if you buy a DIR-825 at retail you can easily ensure that you get the rev B. I suspect that most of the major online retailers probably have exhausted their inventory of rev A by now.
no, and I feel your pain (Score:2)
Currenty I had to revert back to a "newer" version of the wrt54g as my v1.0 crapped out. Turned out to be a bad, bloated capacitor so I changed it, but when things like these start to happen I tend not to trust electronics.
The version 8 (or 6?) WRT sometimes decides to freeze. With Linux (dd-wrt) sometimes, with Linksys firmware 1-2 times a DAY.
I also run my Asterisk PBX on an NSLU2. This setup is pretty stable, but just not enough to run Asterisk, and a Perl HA program at the same time (* has 4-5 sip serve
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