My old linksys wrtg54 with dd-wrt locks up. I am looking for suggestions for a new router that will accept open source router firmware? Dave Cramer
On 15 October 2014 14:33, Dave Cramer <davecramer@gmail.com> wrote:
My old linksys wrtg54 with dd-wrt locks up. I am looking for suggestions for a new router that will accept open source router firmware?
I wish there was a better answer than poring over the docs for OpenWRT/DD-WRT http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/start http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Supported_Devices -- When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"
On 15 October 2014 14:33, Dave Cramer <davecramer@gmail.com> wrote:
My old linksys wrtg54 with dd-wrt locks up. I am looking for suggestions for a new router that will accept open source router firmware?
http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/start Don't know if you're dedicated to dd-wrt: this is of course OpenWRT. (Ah, Chris has sent this as I'm writing). My understanding is that, as a brand, TP-Link has been the least obstructive and makes pretty good products at a reasonable price: Canada Computers carries a number of them. I own (among other old WAPs) a TP-Link MR-3020, which has worked fine - but it's not a home router, it's a lightweight thing for Pirate Boxes or single user connections. I've also been given to understand that Linksys's replacement for the WRT-54g that they recently put out there with much fanfare, the 1900AC, is A) expensive, and B) not as open as they claim it is, and therefore not working terribly well as a replacement for the WRT-54G. If you were okay with the throughput of the WRT-54G, they can be had used from the usual suspects (I got mine at garage sales, but that's hit-and-miss - mostly "miss") for $10 or $15. -- Giles http://www.gilesorr.com/ gilesorr@gmail.com
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Giles Orr <gilesorr@gmail.com> wrote:
On 15 October 2014 14:33, Dave Cramer <davecramer@gmail.com> wrote:
My old linksys wrtg54 with dd-wrt locks up. I am looking for suggestions for a new router that will accept open source router firmware?
My understanding is that, as a brand, TP-Link has been the least obstructive and makes pretty good products at a reasonable price: Canada Computers carries a number of them. I own (among other old WAPs) a TP-Link MR-3020, which has worked fine - but it's not a home router, it's a lightweight thing for Pirate Boxes or single user connections.
TP-Link seconded: I just picked up a TP-Link AC-1750 (be sure to get v2 -- v1 will not work with ath10k). I'm planning to use it as a dev platform for some wireless stuff. So far everything is working fine with OpenWRT out of the box, and I had no trouble compiling and installing my own OpenWRT build for it as well. Of course I say this with approximately 3 hours of uptime at this point, so time will tell. -- Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com
On 15 October 2014 15:41, Giles Orr <gilesorr@gmail.com> wrote:
If you were okay with the throughput of the WRT-54G, they can be had used from the usual suspects (I got mine at garage sales, but that's hit-and-miss - mostly "miss") for $10 or $15.
I just bought a used WRT-54G V8.0 today from Value Village for $4.99 + tax. I've just finished resetting and testing it and it seems to be fully functional. I don't really have a use for it but couldn't resist the price. The power adapter alone is worth the cost to me. They had a second one there but it was missing the power adapter. -- Scott A.
On 10/15/2014 08:24 PM, Scott Allen wrote:
I just bought a used WRT-54G V8.0 today from Value Village for $4.99 + tax. I've just finished resetting and testing it and it seems to be fully functional.
I don't really have a use for it but couldn't resist the price. The power adapter alone is worth the cost to me. They had a second one there but it was missing the power adapter.
I have an old v1.1 collecting dust. I stopped using it because it only does 802.11g. My TP-Link TL-WA901ND access point does 802.11n.
I recently had my DD-WRT router reset (for no apparent reason... it had been working un-touched for well over a year). I then tried to re-set up my printer server to find that DD-WRT was using OpenWRT packages over 8 years old that no one hosted any more. I tried to see if there was a newer version of DD-WRT that worked with my router and it was still the same version number. So, if DD-WRT is just using OpenWRT packages I'd say go with OpenWRT. The benefit of OpenWRT, too, is that you can package just what you need in your flash image and save a lot of room for anything else. Here's a blog entry I used when building my own image: http://blog.rot13.org/2014/03/building-custom-openwrt-image-for-home-router.... BTW, I'd recommend getting a router with a USB port. You can turn it into a media server, a printer server, and even set it up to use a 3G dongle... so many options with OpenWRT! -Tim On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Dave Cramer <davecramer@gmail.com> wrote:
My old linksys wrtg54 with dd-wrt locks up. I am looking for suggestions for a new router that will accept open source router firmware?
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On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Dave Cramer <davecramer@gmail.com> wrote:
My old linksys wrtg54 with dd-wrt locks up. I am looking for suggestions for a new router that will accept open source router firmware?
My current router is a TP-Link TL-WR841N running the latest OpenWRT... limited memory for expansion, but its a cheap and cheerful device that runs $20-$25. I wrote a post about flashing OpenWRT here: http://www.circuidipity.com/pingparade4.html -- (o< .: Per curiositas ad astra .: http://www.circuidipity.com (/)_
Dave Cramer wrote:
My old linksys wrtg54 with dd-wrt locks up. I am looking for suggestions for a new router that will accept open source router firmware?
I had one fail on me under OpenWRT (periodically it'd go dark, staying up less long each restart) and found a new wallwart worked wonders. -- Anthony de Boer
| From: Dave Cramer <davecramer@gmail.com> | My old linksys wrtg54 with dd-wrt locks up. I am looking for suggestions | for a new router that will accept open source router firmware? I'm much more happy with the idea of OpenWRT. But the penalty is that fewer devices work. I just bought this today and hope that OpenWRT will work. Certainly no guarantee. But it is a bargain! <http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833122615&cm_re=ac1450-_-33-122-615-_-Product&AID=10657534&PID=749547&SID=rfdcb-d725&nm_mc=AFC-C8JunctionCA&cm_mmc=AFC-C8JunctionCA-_-na-_-na-_-na> $79.99 + shipping. Refurb. <https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=46758&p=2> has some hopeful noise. <http://advancedhomeserver.com/upgrade-a-netgear-ac1450-router-to-ac1750-r6300v2/> All this started from near the end of this thread about a different interesting deal that seems to be sold out. <http://forums.redflagdeals.com/tp-link-ac1750-router-fs-bb-ca-67-98-a-1572803/4/>
On 10/15/2014 08:07 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
I just bought this today and hope that OpenWRT will work. Certainly no guarantee. But it is a bargain! <http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833122615&cm_re=ac1450-_-33-122-615-_-Product&AID=10657534&PID=749547&SID=rfdcb-d725&nm_mc=AFC-C8JunctionCA&cm_mmc=AFC-C8JunctionCA-_-na-_-na-_-na>
$79.99 + shipping. Refurb.
For the same money, I bought a used Cisco 2600 router last week and with no shipping other than the gas to go a short distance (Steeles to Hwy 7 & back) out of my way. No WiFi, but then I have a separate access point.
On 10/16/2014 07:11 AM, Scott Allen wrote:
For the same money, I bought a used Cisco 2600 router last week [...] The subject of this tread is "open source routers". Can you load open source firmware into it?
Well, if someone were to write it, yes. The OS comes as a compressed bin file that's uncompressed at boot up. So, it would just be a matter of copying the file to the memory and it will automagically run.
| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh@mimosa.com> | <https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=46758&p=2> has some | hopeful noise. Oops. The NETGEAR AC1450 (which turns into a AC1750 with slight hacking) is not well supported by OpenWRT. Broadcom has not disclosed enough to support 802.11n or ac in open source drivers. It does run DDWRT. I infer from some comments on the internet that the factory firmware is a variant of OpenWRT. How annoying.
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