[TriLUG] OT: best home wireless router?

[Jim Tuttle]

I can't say praise dd-wrt on my Buffalo WRT54GS.  The thing can go for
years without a reboot.  I especially like being able to use wake-on-lan
from the router to wake up hosts at home.  I don't leave anything but
the router running and on the occasion that I need to grab some data
from my home file server I just wake it when I need it.

Jim

Paul McLanahan wrote:
> 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
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