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>> After a frustrating experience with a Linksys WRT54GL, I've decided to |
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>> stick with Gentoo routers. |
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> Out of curiosity, could you tell us more about this experience? |
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Sure, I was using the stock firmware and I didn't like that you |
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couldn't specify a source IP address when punching a hole in the |
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firewall for a particular port, and I also couldn't coax "Remote |
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Access" into working no matter what I tried. |
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> The WRT54G(L) is quite dated, and the OpenWRT devs recommend against trying to do anything fancy on it. |
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I chose the WRT54GL because it has the best ratings on newegg.com. I |
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looked into OpenWRT once but decided against it after I decided |
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installation and possibly management was not nearly as trivial as I |
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had imagined. |
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> In another post you mentioned that you have a TP-Link TL-WR1043ND, which is a bunch newer, I think, and should run OpenWRT quite well. |
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I got rid of the TL-WR1043ND a while back because I couldn't get |
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packet shaping to work with the stock firmware no matter how I tried. |
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At this point I've sworn off mystery boxes. I even had a Dlink router |
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die on me recently. If I'm not using mystery boxes for greater |
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hardware reliability, why am I using them? Power consumption would be |
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a good reason but it's not worth it IMO. |
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- Grant |
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