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Topic: If you had to purchase an OpenWrt compatible wireless router today...

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Post #1
fullstop
14 Apr 2009, 16:49

If you had to purchase an OpenWrt compatible wireless router today, what would you buy?

I would like to run the 2.6 kernel because of problems with the 2.4 kernel and pptp.  However, 2.6 and b43 are pretty new in the OpenWrt world and may or may not be ready for full time use.

The wrt400n looks awesome and doesn't use the binary wl.o module, but it hasn't been ported yet.

So I have a few questions:

*  What router would you pick.
and
*  How stable is madwifi?  Does it perform as well as the proprietary wl.o module?

I have to say, it is quite frustrating to see the number of broadcom routers that are stuck on 2.4 because there is no 2.6 mips driver.  Hopefully the b43 driver nails it.  :-)

Post #3
ath
15 Apr 2009, 16:58

BCM4306-based routers should work pretty well by now with a 2.6 kernel and b43... if you can still find one of them.

Post #4
fullstop
20 Apr 2009, 16:09

This is surprising.  Nothing readily available?

Not to poo-poo the D-Link, but I'm never buying one of their routers again.  They're on my S-List.  ;-)

Post #5
krakoukas
20 Apr 2009, 19:20

After using NSLU2, I am just testing the new FONERA 2.0
It looks perfect for me...

Post #6
xerces8
20 Apr 2009, 23:05
ath wrote:

BCM4306-based routers should work pretty well by now with a 2.6 kernel and b43... if you can still find one of them.

The release notes says:
WEP, WDS and multi-SSID not yet supported

Is this fixed now ?

Post #7
ath
23 Apr 2009, 11:40
xerces8 wrote:

WEP, WDS and multi-SSID not yet supported

Is this fixed now ?

I doubt that there is much activity on WEP support nowadays...

Post #8
xerces8
23 Apr 2009, 13:38

What about WDS and multi-SSID ?

Post #9
xerces8
28 Apr 2009, 21:51

OK, how can one find out, which WLAN routers are 100% supported ?

That is, what is in active use and are known to work.

I'm not interested if someone in Siberia managed to boot some obscure router and it worked 50 minutes without crashing.

The Fonera 2.0 looks nice, except:
- only one LAN port
- isn't 180 MHz CPU a bit weak ? I currently have an Asus WL500gDeluxe (200MHz) and it gets loads over 1.0

Regards,
David

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