[Chester LUG] WiFi Terror

[Michael Crilly]

I think many of the interfaces you find on consumer grade routers are
designed to make NAT, PAT, DHCP, etc all easy to use by the family IT
specialist (usually the 12 year old who plays WoW a bit, so he knows IT).
However when someone like you or I come across it, it's seen
as overly complicated and as if the manufacturer has tried too hard to make
it all fluffy and simple.

Give me an IOS interface every time and I'll be cooking until midnight ;-)

On 14 July 2011 02:17, Sebastian Arcus <shop at open-t.co.uk> wrote:

>
>  On a related note, I'm probably going to switch to AAISP in the next few
>> months, as their routers are hand made, and seem to be rock solid.
>>
>
> Hand made? I'd be really curious as to what exactly does that mean. For
> some reason I keep on hearing the music from those M&S adverts, with cream
> flowing over luscious raspberries. Or some such imagery. I'd be happy if
> they use good chippery, and quality capacitors - I've nothing against being
> built by some non-unionised robot.
>
> If it's up to me, I'm perfectly happy with one of the Netgear routers -
> pretty much any. Except for the square corners ones - all of them seem to
> suffer from the red/orange power light startup failure after about one year.
> There is a long thread on Netgear's forum about it (and no solution).
> However, even then, once you let the power adapter cool off for about 10
> minutes, they'll get going and not stop for another few months.
>
> Although some people seem to have different opinions - I must have
> installed close to 100 Netgears over the years - and they seem to be the
> most robust consumer routers out there. And at least as far as I'm concerned
> - the interface actually makes sense.
>
> I was trying to configure some port redirection on a router supplied by
> Plusnet the other day - and I must have gone 10 times in circles until I
> figured out how did *they* expect you to configure the router to do it. Even
> a Draytek - which as far as I can tell, seems to be a solid (and not cheap)
> piece of hardware - if, for some reason, quite unpopular - has an outright
> weird and unnecessarily obfuscated online interface.
>
>
> Sebastian
>
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