Hi Stephen,<div><br></div><div>I've been using 5 Linksys wrt54 routers (of varying revisions) running dd-wrt for years and not had any reliability issues. I suppose it's always luck of the draw with hardware, but if you use dd-wrt or openwrt you've got much better odds as most failures are down to bad firmware.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Les<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 19 February 2011 21:04, Stephen Watkin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ste@enzy.me.uk">ste@enzy.me.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Hi Bob,<br>
<br>
Cheers for that. I never even knew that ITX stuff existed! It'd be
nice to have a play when I have a couple of quid to spare.<br>
<br>
What I'll probably end up doing is getting something I can put
OpenWRT on. I've just recently put it on a Linksys wrt54gl that was
acting up and it's been running smooth since, so I might just get
one of those.<br>
<br>
Ste<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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On 19/02/11 20:28, Bob Ham wrote:
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<pre>Hi Stephen,
I've had no problem with Netgear access points. I've used the freebie
things that I got with Virgin Media, both the old stand-alone model¹ and
the newer modem-and-access-point "Media Hub"².
Really though, it sounds like you're at the point where you want to put
together an ALIX box. There's a company called LinITX that sells ALIX
boards and enclosures in the UK:
<a href="http://linitx.com/viewcategory.php?catid=176&pp=176" target="_blank">http://linitx.com/viewcategory.php?catid=176&pp=176</a>
Hope that helps,
Bob
¹ <a href="http://www.netgear.co.uk/wireless_firewall_router_wgr614l.php" target="_blank">http://www.netgear.co.uk/wireless_firewall_router_wgr614l.php</a>
² <a href="http://www.netgear.com/products/service-providers/routers-and-gateways/cable-gateways/CG2100.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.netgear.com/products/service-providers/routers-and-gateways/cable-gateways/CG2100.aspx</a>
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<pre>I'm at the end of my tether with consumer wireless routers / access
points. Every single one I've ever had anything to do with has been a
complete nightmare. They either randomly crash and need rebooting every
few weeks, or randomly forget or ignore their settings (such as port
forwarding) or break completely for no apparent reason. At this point
I'm utterly convinced they are all garbage.
As you might have guessed, my access point at home has just failed and I
need a replacement. Rather than just sink £50 into another bit of
plastic tat, I heard you can run an access point off a Linux box. I had
a stab at setting that up last night but I didn't get very far. There's
a program called 'hostapd' which can run an access point off an attached
wifi device. I managed to get the daemon up and running, and to get a
client to connect associate with it, but I couldn't so much as ping
anything through the connection. As I understand it, the problem could
be a few different things - either hostapd isn't configured right, or
the bridge interface on the router isn't configured right, or the
wireless driver flat-out just doesn't support runnining in AP mode
(which wouldn't suprise me, as they're all crappy broadcom ones with
bodged drivers).
Does anyone have any experience with this? Or can anyone recommend me a
dedicated wireless router that isn't complete shit?
Ste
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