[geeks] Recommendations for a better broadband router

[Michael Parson]

On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Chad McAuley wrote:
> Michael Parson wrote:
>> On Jan 11, 2008, at 8:06 AM, hike wrote:
>>
>> I recommend any of the ones that can take a DD-WRT flash on them.  I
>> have used the original Linksys WRT54G (The WRT54GL tends to run about
>> $70) and just recently picked up a few Airlink 101 AR430W units for my
>> family.  Fry's normally carries the Airlink units for ~$30, but they
>> can be found on sale, anywhere from $9.99 to $19.99.
>
> The Buffalo units are supposed to be nice as well, although due to the
> CSIRO lawsuit [0] they're almost impossible to find at this point.

Ah, I didn't know about the lawsuit.  I have friends with the Buffalo
units, and they like them, but all I knew was that Fry's quit having
them on the shelves.

>> I've had the web interface lock up on me a few times on the DD-WRT,
>> but I can usually still ssh into it and issue a 'reboot' command via
>> the cli.
>
> I've also heard really good things about the Tomato firmware, but I
> haven't had a chance to play with it.

I played with it once, it broke (or I did something horribly wrong) and
I went back to the DD-WRT bits.

> [0]: http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/content/view/30070/97/
> [1]:  http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato

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Michael Parson
mparson at bl.org