[TriLUG] OT: best home wireless router?

[Brian]

Another vote for Linksys with alternate firmware. If you want even more
wiz-bang features, take a look at Smoothwall or m0n0wall or pfsense- lots of
wiz-bang with a full PC at your disposal.

-Brian


On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Keith Woodie <kwoodie at gmail.com> wrote:

> +1 for Linksys WRT54G... not N but still fine for me with Tomato Firmware:
> http://www.polarcloud.com
>
> Great service for me and a clean and powerful QoS that allows for me to do
> outbound rsync, VPN to work, VOIP (vonage) along with Verizon's femtocell
> cellphone tower.
>
>
> Keith Woodie
> Mitch Hedberg<
> http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/mitch_hedberg.html>
> - "I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle."
>
> 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'm leaning towards another Linksys because of the incredible service
> this
> > one has given me, but am open to other vendors.  After doing a little
> > research this morning, I found a few that look interesting (mostly
> because
> > they claim to have firewall technology built-in).
> >
> > from: http://www.firewallguide.com/
> >
> > 1) http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=530
> > 2)
> >
> >
> http://www.zonealarm.com/security/en-us/zonealarm-secure-wireless-router.htm
> >
> > This would be for a very mixed environment (Macs, PCs, Linux, shared
> > storage & printing), yet my needs are fairly basic.  I want the MAC
> > whitelist and a relatively secure router.  What say you?
> >
> > David M.
> >
> >
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