[colug-432] Recommendation for router/?

[Angelo McComis]

I was trying to find routers that were compatible with DD-WRT. I'd start
with the DD-WRT page, look for a model, try to find it, only to learn that
it's out of my price range, or discontinued. So I searched the other
direction:  Featured model on sale, go to the DD-WRT page and search it,
and figure out that it's not supported, came back empty handed, and took a
while until I learned a trick that I believe is worth sharing:

If you just search for DD-WRT (or OpenWRT or pfSense) on Amazon, the list
of routers that comes up are all ones that will be compatible with it. (I
can't believe how obvious that is... but it eluded me for some reason.)

Or, as Bob said, skip everything else, and throw $40 at that Netgear
WNR3500L. That's a hell of a deal for something with that much memory and
Gig links.

Angelo



On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Robert Jewell <bob at disclosed.org> wrote:

>
> On Jan 7, 2015, at 2:32 PM, Rick Hornsby <richardjhornsby at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> That said, I had fun and learned a good deal about Linux, networking etc
> by building my own Linux router and configuring iptables etc by hand if
> you're into that sort of thing.
>
>
> Yeah, I totally second this - I'm pretty sure I made a router from a
> freebie 486 I got from a COLUG member some ~15 years ago and really learned
> a lot.
>
> That said, I have to recommend Netgear for consumer routers. Most of their
> previous gen of routers (basic "n" wireless/routers) worked very well with
> ddwrt/tomato, and they made an organizational effort to enable opensource
> firmware projects.  I had no experience with the current generation, but I
> had such outstanding experiences with items similar to the WDNR3500[1][2]
> that I'd give it some serious consideration.
>
> And if you do that, then your internet won't go out when the floppy disk
> that's running the OS on your 486 router wears out. (woops)
>
> 1:
> http://www.amazon.com/NETGEAR-WNR3500L-Open-Source-WNR3500Lv2-Processor/dp/B002RYYZZS/
> Hard to ignore how cheap this is for the quality/capability.
> 2:
> http://www.amazon.com/WNR3500L-V2-Wireless-firmware-Refurbished/dp/B00HOGY5W2/ You
> can even find them refurbed by thirdparties and preloaded with tomato
> firmware.
>
>
>
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