Re: [PLUG] Good wireless router(s)?

["Brent Saner" <brent.saner@gmail.com>]

it's okay, it was ambiguous of me. my fault!

also, http://melbourne.wireless.org.au/ has some really awesome stuff regarding community wireless and hacking your signal to get it stronger, etc. (which may or may not violate FCC standards. read everything on that site carefully!)

On 10/30/07, Mark Baker <mark.baker@hxti.com> wrote:

Sorry about that,  didn't see your reply there until I sent mine.

 

Mark

 

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From: Brent Saner [mailto:brent.saner@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 10:42 AM
To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Good wireless router(s)?

 

mark-
that's exactly what i meant. :D

a lot of people use OpenWRT or the above Sveasoft.
personally, i prefer DD-WRT ( http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page ), they seem a lot more "open" than Sveasoft and a bit more mature/better layout and feature-ful than open-wrt ( http://openwrt.org/ )

On 10/30/07, Mark Baker <mark.baker@hxti.com> wrote:

Hi,

I recently purchased the linksys (Cisco) WAP4400N and a Power over Ethernet adapter for it so I could mount it in the ceiling.  It has worked without any issues.

If you want to go another route you can buy an old linksys wireless router and flash it with one of the open source firmware options.  The open source firmware adds a ton of features and the router would be very inexpensive on eBay.   Only certain revisions of the wireless routers can be flashed with the open source firmware, so thats something to keep in mind.

The firmware I have used in the past:   http://www.sveasoft.com/

You can find all the info you need about it here:  http://www.wrtrouters.com

Mark


> -----Original Message-----
> From: fljohnson3@isp.com [mailto: fljohnson3@isp.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 10:07 AM
> To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
> Subject: [PLUG] Good wireless router(s)?
>
> Having determined that eBay is, at least in theory, an option, although it
> will require patience on my part, I began to consider jacking a wireless
> router into the LAN.
>
> That said, which one(s) have you had the most luck with in terms of
> firmware upgrades, arming MAC filtering and the strongest scrambling in
> the box with Fedora 7 (I think it's WPA), and overall reliability?
>
> I begin shopping in earnest the morning of November 1.
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Floyd Johnson
>
>
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