<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 7, 2015, at 2:32 PM, Rick Hornsby <<a href="mailto:richardjhornsby@gmail.com" class="">richardjhornsby@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><div class=""><br class="">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.<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">1: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/NETGEAR-WNR3500L-Open-Source-WNR3500Lv2-Processor/dp/B002RYYZZS/" class="">http://www.amazon.com/NETGEAR-WNR3500L-Open-Source-WNR3500Lv2-Processor/dp/B002RYYZZS/</a> Hard to ignore how cheap this is for the quality/capability.</div><div class="">2: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/WNR3500L-V2-Wireless-firmware-Refurbished/dp/B00HOGY5W2/" class="">http://www.amazon.com/WNR3500L-V2-Wireless-firmware-Refurbished/dp/B00HOGY5W2/</a> You can even find them refurbed by thirdparties and preloaded with tomato firmware.</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>