[TriLUG] OT: best home wireless router?

[Paul McLanahan]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 2:50 PM, David Matusiak<dave at matusiak.org> wrote:
> I'd like to tap the collective intelligence of TriLUG and seek advice on a
> new home wireless access point.  My vintage Linksys is still going strong,
> but I'd really love to have a whitelist for known friendly MAC addresses.
> I'm pretty sure this is a common feature these days, but I'm more
> interested in what new whiz-bang things are out there that I don't know
> about.

I've got 2 Buffalo routers (the WHR-G54S, and WHR-HP-G54) that have
given me exactly 0 problems, but they're increasingly hard to find.
Your best bet is probably the Linksys WRT54G. I highly recommend a 3rd
party firmware. Like Keith, I prefer Tomato, but there are other good
ones. They'll give you all the features you'd ever want, plus some you
didn't know you want, but will need from then on. Be careful of the
router revision you get, some don't work very well with the 3rd party
firmwares. Check the following link for some notes on the matter.

http://polarcloud.com/tomatofaq#what_will_this_run_on

Paul