| Gavin W. Burris on 12 Feb 2011 09:53:04 -0800 |
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| Re: [PLUG] dd-wrt router recommendation |
Hello PLUGers, I ordered two of these Buffalo WHR-HP-GN routers, based on the price and recommendations. They out performs my previous WRT54GL that had high-gain antennas, but watch out! Even with the latest Brainslayer DD-WRT firmware, the wireless dies about once a day. Maybe this will be fixed in newer versions? In the meantime, I had to add this to the cron to check and restart the wireless interface on the router: * * * * * root [ -z `dmesg | tail -1 | grep Resetting` ] && logger -p alert "wlan ok" || (logger -p info "Bouncing ath0" && ifconfig ath0 down && ifconfig ath0 up) Reference: http://kinglee.blogspot.com/2010/07/buffalo-whr-hp-g300n-wireless-drop-on.html Cheers. On 02/02/2011 02:11 PM, John Kreno wrote: > I also own this unit. It's a very good performer. > > -John > > On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Morgan Jones <morgan@morganjones.org> wrote: >> >> (I'm re-sending my prior email below with less marginal English: apologies, I shouldn't write emails on the way out the door in the morning). >> >> It may also interest the list that the WHR-HP-G300N is available as a refurb for $35.. The difference seems to be that the WHR-HP-G300N broadcasts on 2 different frequencies and is thus true 802.11n: >> http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=70212&sid=60e5d630ed0e0a5068d0842059dd4861 >> >> It also seems you can double the speed of the WHR-HP-GN by enabling N-only wireless: >> http://forums.buffalotech.com/t5/Wireless/only-getting-65mbps-with-WHR-HP-GN/td-p/47280/page/2 >> >> -morgan >> >> >>> We recently discussed this router: >>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833162042 >>> >>> I just bought 2 as possible replacements for my aging G Linksys infrastructure. It is in fact just a refurbished whr-hp-gn. They shipped with Buffalo branded DD-WRT. The firmware is a little old but up-to-date dd-wrt firmware loads with no problem. >>> >>> I had to look around a bit and eventually found a file downloads link on the whr-G300N wiki page: >>> http://dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/WHR-G300N_V2 >>> >>> The net-net is you need to download whr-hp-gn-firmware-MULTI.bin >>> from here: http://www.dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv2/down.php?path=downloads%2Fothers%2Feko%2FBrainSlayer-V24-preSP2%2F12-24-10-r15962%2Fbuffalo_whr_hp_gn/ >>> >>> That's hard to beat for $20+shipping. Enjoy. >>> >>> -morgan >> ___________________________________________________________________________ >> Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org >> Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce >> General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> > > > -- Gavin W. Burris Senior Systems Programmer Information Security and Unix Systems School of Arts and Sciences University of Pennsylvania ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug