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On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2 Feb 2012 23:35:03 +1100, Gregory Shearman wrote: |
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>> I can second the Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH. I run it with Openwrt rather |
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>> than ddwrt and I find it runs flawlessly, though I only run it with a |
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>> few wireless laptops and a wired server. |
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> What are the advantages of Openwrt? I have one of these but have never |
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> bothered with anything but the stock dd-wrt. |
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It's like the Gentoo of router distros, you can pretty easily roll |
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your own firmware image with whatever kernel options, packages and |
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features you want included. You can install a web-based management |
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console similar to the one DD-WRT has, or you could manage it entirely |
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through SSH if you want to save space for other things. I think DD-WRT |
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is actually based on OpenWrt, or is in the process of becoming so. |
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That is not to say that DD-WRT does not contain original work, as it |
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certainly does, and they are contracted to write firmware for some new |
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devices that might not generically be supported by OpenWrt yet. |
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I also have WZR-HP-G300NH and wifi suffered constant disconnects and |
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poor performance. The latest OpenWrt updates have gotten better from |
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the driver standpoint, and what really helped link quality was |
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dramatically /reducing/ the antenna power. I still get dropped wifi |
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connection on all of my devices every time someone uses the microwave |
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oven... (my old and slow router did not suffer from that problem). |
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If I had the chance to do it over, I'd get WZR-HP-AG300H instead, |
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since it has 5GHz support. |
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