[TriLUG] best home router for voip prioritization

[Dewey Hylton]

> From: "Bill Farrow" <bill at arrowsreach.com>
> To: "Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion" <trilug at trilug.org>
> Sent: Friday, December 27, 2013 11:23:59 AM
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] best home router for voip prioritization
> 
> On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Dewey Hylton <plug at hyltown.com>
> wrote:
> > my initial thought was to just build her a little openbsd firewall
> > on the alix platform (these see a lot of use at my customer sites)
> > and
> 
> You will have to decide what you are willing to support:
>  A) initial high equipment cost for alix and switch, but with a
> familiar openbsd environment
>  B) low equipment cost OpenWRT router and unfamiliar OS environment
> 
> > ethernet requirements:
> >  1 desktop computer
> >  1 desktop printer
> >  1 rpi
> >  1 ip phone base station
> >  1 uplink to the cable modem
> 
> I have been deploying $45 TP-Link TL-WR1043ND routers running OpenWRT
> to family members on the other side of the world. I have had some
> issues with wifi until I disabled the auto channel feature. This unit
> has 4x LAN ports and 1x WAN port, which fits your requirement. I have
> installed "Attitude Adjustment 12.09" (OS version) onto TL-WR1043ND
> hardware versions v1.8, v1.9, and v1.11 without problems.
> 
> OpenWRT does do QOS but I have not messed with it yet.
> 
> Bill

this interests me. the current setup includes a buffalo router running dd-wrt. i haven't touched *wrt since that particular installation, and it's been there for quite a long time.

when i mentioned not wanting to deal with a linux firewall, i was specifically talking about iptables. i know it works, just don't want to deal with it myself - *wrt hides all that and i don't mind using it at all.

i just checked intrex, and they sell the tplink you are using, though i won't know what version/firmware it includes unless i unbox and hook it up. i may spring for that today. i just have to look up this 'gargoyle' firmware you mentioned and read about it.

thanks for this, and to all for the other responses as well. i was right when i figured this list would be full of folks who had the experience that mattered. :)