[Lancaster] looking for a good wifi router

[Les Pounder]

Hi Cefn, long time no see.

What gear are you after for shrimping, while I don't have any laptops, I do
have a few desktops that might be of use? And I can probably scroung some
other bits of kit from my box o' crap ;)

Les
Blackpool LUG

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Cefn Hoile
<lancaster_lug.org.uk at cefn.com>wrote:

> 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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