[kwlug-disc] Router dying?

[Chris Irwin]

Just to throw in my 2¢: I've become so fed up with unreliable consumer
routers, regardless of running original firmware, ddwrt, openwrt, etc.,
that I ended up just buying a low-power pc with dual-nics, installing
ipfire, and calling it a day. I still have a consumer router, but it
functions as a WAP only, with whatever OEM firmware it shipped with.

The device I purchased (also needs ram and storage, which I already had):
http://www.dx.com/p/minix-intel-d2550-cpu-mini-hd-pc-w-hdmi-vga-black-us-plug-100-240v-228560

IPFire: http://www.ipfire.org/


On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 6:10 PM, Andrew Kohlsmith (mailing lists account) <
aklists at mixdown.ca> wrote:

> > On Jun 18, 2015, at 11:55 AM, CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Linksys WRT1900ac ($250)
> > TP-Link WDR4300 ($80)
>
> I’ve got the WRT1900AC. It’s pretty badass looking, although that wasn’t
> why I bought it.
>
> Simultaneous dual channel, external antennas, USB and eSATA ports. This
> thing pretty much has it all, and that’s with the stock firmware.  It’s
> been pretty solid in the last 3ish months or so that I’ve had it. The USB
> sharing works reasonably well, although it seems to have an issue with OSX
> Yosemite. 10.9 works, 10.10 doesn’t, but Linksys is actually working with
> me to try to resolve it which is great news.
>
> -A.
>
>
>
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Chris Irwin
<chris at chrisirwin.ca>
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