[Lancaster] looking for a good wifi router

[Cefn Hoile]

Mp, if Andy doesn't take you up on the offer, then I'll definitely do so.

I was just about to buy the Linksys recommended by Les to give us wireless
access and routable ethernet for the studio laptops and experimental
machines at the Shrimping Workshops, but if there's a hackable AND free
one, even better.

I'm hoping it will be possible to configure routing rules which allows it
to negotiate an uplink via Ethernet and DHCP and then serve it out via
NATed wireless. Any suggestions for how to do this on any device without
absolute IPtables hell are welcome (for example regular ethernet hubs and
wireless access points have an toggleable uplink button, but modem devices
seem to assume they are negotiating the DSL, so they don't seem to have
this easy-config uplink behaviour).

Cefn
http://cefn.com

On 25 June 2012 11:55, mp <mp at aktivix.org> wrote:

>
> Andy,
>
> I have this, which you can have and flash to bits:
> http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=567
>
> On 25/06/12 11:20, Pepe Palau wrote:
> > I have been using a Linksys e2000 running dd-wrt for a year and I am very
> > happy so far:
> > root at DD-WRT:~# uptime
> >  19:38:35 up 185 days,  5:57, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
> >
> > I think e2000 is the same than e1000 plus gigabit, and e3000 is also the
> > same plus USB connection.
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Jonathan Archer <jon at rosslug.org.uk
> >wrote:
> >
> >> **
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Yes it does look a decent unit and for the price its an absolute steal..
> >>
> >> My only grumble would be the fact the physical ports are only 100mb,
> their
> >> current gigabit models don't seem to be supported by dd-wrt yet (i'm
> sure
> >> they will work though).
> >>
> >>
> >> Jon
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 10:45 +0100, Les Pounder wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Jon, Lancaster
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>  Here is my wifi router
> >> http://uk.tp-link.com/products/details/?categoryid=238&model=TL-WR841N
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>  Great machine, works really well.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>  Les
> >>
> >>
> >>  On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Jonathan Archer <jon at rosslug.org.uk>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>  I'm currently using the Cisco Linksys e1000 which is OK.
> >>
> >> Have it running DD-WRT, as Les just mentioned but find it slightly
> >> underpowered.
> >>
> >> So on this basis If you wanted to go down the Linksys route I'd suggest
> >> the e2000, e3000 or e4000
> >>
> >> Les: what specs does your TP-Link hold? is it wireless N?
> >>
> >> Jon
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 10:27 +0100, Les Pounder 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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