[TriLUG] Off-Topic are WIFI routers just getting worse

[Greg Brown via TriLUG]

For years I've been using Apple access points and firewalls.  They are the
same device just with different software settings.  I used to use M0n0wall
on Soekris for my edge firewall but M0n0wall has been discontinued and with
the bump in TWC speeds the speed exceeded the throughput of my Soekris
hardware so I went with an Apple Airport Express on the edge and a Time
Capsule set up as an access point rather than another router.

All that said Apple has discontinued their router/access point efforts so
I'm looking for another solution and I'm going to order some Google OnHub
devices in the coming months to test:

https://on.google.com/hub/

Greg



On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 1:20 AM, Steve Litt via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Mar 2017 21:57:35 -0400 (EDT)
> Dewey Hylton via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>
> > i haven't used a wifi router since the 802.11b days, because i've
> > built my own firewalls ... but i've used plenty of access points, and
> > what i've been the most happy with are the unifi models from
> > ubiquiti. i have them at the house, at the office, and have deployed
> > lots of them at customer sites ... their management software runs on
> > linux, and works very well.
>
> How do I buy a machine that's an access point and nothing more? I'd
> love that. All that firewall stuff is just more complication making
> troubleshooting harder. Once I have an access point whose input is cat
> 5 and output that is ethernet over radio, my pfSense box in the corner
> does the rest.
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
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