[Liverpool] Wireless access points?

[Les Pritchard]

Hi Stephen,

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.

Les

On 19 February 2011 21:04, Stephen Watkin <ste at enzy.me.uk> wrote:

>  Hi Bob,
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Ste
>
>
> On 19/02/11 20:28, Bob Ham wrote:
>
> 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:
>
>   http://linitx.com/viewcategory.php?catid=176&pp=176
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Bob
>
> ¹ http://www.netgear.co.uk/wireless_firewall_router_wgr614l.php
> ² http://www.netgear.com/products/service-providers/routers-and-gateways/cable-gateways/CG2100.aspx
>
>
>
> On Sat, 2011-02-19 at 12:33 +0000, Stephen Watkin wrote:
>
>  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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