Re: [sheflug] OpenWRT and wireless routers

[John M Cooper <john [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2006-06-04 at 15:37 +0100, Chris J wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Looking at replacing my long-serving firewall[1] with a smaller (in 
> form-size) device - wireless router, and am comtemplating chucking
> OpenWRT[2] on it.
> 
> Has anyone any experience of a decent wireless router and OpenWRT? Or what 
> routers to avoid getting (regardless of OpenWRT support)?
> 

Hi, I was running openWRT on an old Linksys for a while and it was
pretty good. One fine day I decided to overclock it ( Yes, yes I know
it's a router, but it was there!) and turned it into a nice door stop!
Up until that point I was pretty happy, it just worked.

I recently brought a fon[1] router to run here along side my home WLAN,
and have been reading a up a bit on that. The have based thier firmware
on dd-wrt[2] which is in turn based on openwrt. I think dd-wrt has a
simple web interface for those times you need it and a lot more
functionallity built in by default. Might be worth a look.

I think that the really modern Linksys routers no longer run Openwrt,
unless you shell out for special Linux one, so you may have to have a
look on ebay for an old one or get one of the FON ones which are on
discount at the moment.

john

[1]http://en.fon.com/
[2]http://www.dd-wrt.org/



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