[Lancaster] looking for a good wifi router

[Cefn Hoile]

Not a direct answer to the question, but my Netgear from Orange was also
buggy as hell, and it only took me about 5 minutes to the call centre to
have them send me an Orange Brightbox, a solid device which has delivered
great service for the last 4 months or so.

It seems a shame not to have a device with a community firmware
distribution but the value of at least having stable network connectivity
is that I can reliably and easily maintain the builds on everything else in
the house.

To do the job of the always-on, hackable central home device, instead of a
hackable router, I grabbed a Pogoplug and stuck Wheezy on it (although
Squeeze is the stable alternative, I'm used to being nearer to the bleeding
edge with Ubuntu being based on unstable)...
http://cefn.com/blog/pogoplug_wheezy.html
http://projects.doozan.com/debian/
...which is doing a fine job, even running MPD and letting us listen to
French Internet Radio all day.

Be great to get together with others who are interested in Firmware hacking
projects, as this has turned from being a hobby to a central theme of my
PhD. Especially interested in hacking the Nook Simple Touch (for eInk
android) and Digital Picture Frames based on the Appotech 206, inspired by
the dpf-ax project.

Cefn
http://cefn.com

On 25 June 2012 10:27, Les Pounder <lespounder at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Andy
>
> I use a TP-Link router, it is a great device, and it supports DD-WRT (even
> the manufacturer states this feature).
>
> Take a look on their site http://uk.tp-link.com/products/?categoryid=201
>
> Good luck.
>
> Les Pounder
> Blackpool LUG
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:16 AM, andy baxter <
> andy at earthsong.free-online.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm looking for a good wifi router with a decent control panel (e.g. for
>> setting up custom firewall and port forwarding rules), a few ethernet
>> ports, and ideally the ability to flash custom firmware if I ever decide to
>> do so. Long range would be nice but not essential. My current router is a
>> cheapo netgear one from Orange, and it's becoming unusable (for some reason
>> it keeps disconnecting when I work on a remote server from home over ssh).
>>
>> Can anyone suggest a suitable device?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> andy
>>
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