[kwlug-disc] [kwlug-announce] Meeting Monday: OpenWRT

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

For those who want to review the slides, you can download the PDF of the
presentation from here

http://baheyeldin.com/technology/linux/presentation-openwrt-kwlug-august-2014.html

In that link, you will also find a link to where you can download wrtbwmon
(WRT Bandwidth Monitor).


On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 12:07 AM, Paul Nijjar <paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca> wrote:

>
> It's August, which for many of us means it's time to head off to the
> cottage. Maybe back in the 1950s you could go to the cottage without
> your wifi, but these days canoeing without your laptop or telling
> ghost stories without your email is gauche. But now it is 2007, and
> mobile broadband is not ubiquitous yet, so you need a wireless router.
> Enter the trusty Linksys WRT54GL...
>
> Oh wait. It's not 2007. It's 2014, and even though you probably use
> your phone to check email[0]  on your phone, you might well have a
> broadband connection someplace, and in 2014 the trusty old WRT54GL is
> not cutting it. Now the wireless-N standard is ubiquitous[1], and
> people have gigabit networks at home. Sure, some people just buy
> whatever router is on sale at the local computer store[2], and use the
> stock firmware to distribute their network signal. But what fun is
> that? You can't run an OpenVPN endpoint or Asterisk server on stock
> firmware. If you haven't noticed, though, wireless routers are
> confusing! Some routers don't work well with third-party firmware.
> Some routers do work well until the manufacturer changes the revision
> and switches all the router internals? Where do you turn if you want a
> solid, flashable router that supports modern standards?
>
> You turn to Khalid Baheyeldin, that's who. He went through the odyssey
> of finding a router that would work well with the OpenWRT firmware in
> 2014. Furthermore, he knows how to use his router to track the things
> those of us with bandwidth caps care about: which devices are sucking
> up the data? How can you see what processes are active at any given
> time? Are there pretty graphs? In this presentation Khalid will tell
> us all this and more. This presentation will start at 7pm.
>
> In other news, Software Freedom Day organizing is coming along.
> This event will be held on Sept 20, from 10am-4pm. There will be
> workshops on the Scratch programming language, installing security and
> privacy tools in the post-Snowden era, and building your own Linux
> machine. There are also plenty of presentations lined up, including
> sessions on making a living with FLOSS and on the Open Access
> publishing movement. You can find out more about the day at
> http://kwlug.org/sfd , and you can offer to volunteer by contacting
> me off-list. (We especially need volunteers to staff our installfest,
> and to help with publicity.)
>
> And that's it. Now I need a vacation, but there is no rest for the
> wicked, so attending a KWLUG meeting makes for a pretty good
> substitute. Here is the location info:
>
> St John's Kitchen
> 97 Victoria Street North
> (at the corner of Victoria and Weber)
> Kitchener
>
> Park your campers in the Worth A Second Look parking lot. Park your
> touring bicycle along the side of the building. Find our
> sunny destination at http://kwlug.org/sjk .
>
> - Paul
>
>
>
> BONUS: Mean-spirited footnotes, courtesy of my inner critic:
>
> [0] Email? Who uses email?
> [1] Ain't you ever heard of 802.11ac, grandpa?
> [2] Local computer store? It's 2014! Bricks and mortar are so 20th century!
>
> --
> http://pnijjar.freeshell.org
>
>
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