[TriLUG] OT: best home wireless router?

[Greg Brown]

I've used the WRT54GL units running OpenWRT for year.  They are fantastic
routers.. very reliable.

At home however I run a dual-band (802.11 a/b/g/n) Time Machine.  Any house
with a Mac or three could use a time machine.  They have saved my bacon
twice now.

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Brian <spiffytech at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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