[ILUG] [Maybe OT] Recommendations for a good wireless router

[Justin Mason]

Michael Watterson writes:
> Brendan Kehoe wrote:
> > Barry Flanagan wrote:
> >> Pádraig Brady wrote:
> >>> WRT54GL for €51.50
> >>> http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=314078
> >>>
> >>> Throw dd-wrt on it (v24 just released):
> >>> http://www.dd-wrt.com/
> >> Yeah, I was going to suggest the exact same.
> >
> > And me.  I've set up three in different places (my sitting room, my 
> > son's school, a friend's house) and all have been working like a charm 
> > for a range of six months to two years without a single hiccup.  The 
> > dd-wrt project is amazing.
> >
> > B
> >
> >
> Why not http://openwrt.org/ ?
> (I have a WRT54G3G modified to run 5hrs on batteries with openwrt. Runs 
> ethernet WAN (cable Modem, DSL router bridge Mode, Breeze, Ripwave etc) 
> or PCMCIA modem (3G, EDGE, Digiweb Flash-OFDM modem). The Flash-OFDM 
> driver is not yet publically available though.  USB modems via 
> USB-PCMCIA adaptor is possible.

I switched from OpenWRT to Tomato about 6 months ago, on my WRTs.

Basically, OpenWRT is appallingly underdocumented.  I regularly found
myself having to trawl through IRC logs to find info on how to do
something. :(

DD-WRT and Tomato, however, are a good deal more usable -- if you're not
planning to do something really hairy like build a custom firmware, I'd
recommend these.

--j.