Ubiquiti devices all the way [1] [2]. They're the hacker's choice!
Before I discovered Ubiquiti, the Linksys WRT54Gx series was my goto. The problem with them is that, as a given WRT54Gx line matures, they usually shave down the specs. You can see that in action with the WRT54GS series here [3], which debuted with 8MB of flash and now only sports 2MB. Good luck getting anything useful into 2MB.
The other problem with the WRT54Gx's is that there's quite a lot of hardware and architecture variation under the hood. You're usually fine, but I do have one WRT54G-RG at home here that wouldn't even take OpenWRT. It's running DD-WRT, which is a ghetto. (I see some other commenters here feel similarly).
Anyway the Ubiquiti PicoStation 2HP, by contrast, has
- 8MB of flash
- 32MB of RAM
- a nice Atheros SoC which transmits at the legal max of 1000 mW
- can easily be outfitted with high gain external antennas
- works perfectly under OpenWRT, and
- is competitively priced at $78 [4]
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(Last edited by johnbaker on 3 Jul 2014, 01:05)