[ale] Recommended small routers

[Ken Cochran]

Well, if you must ask... {sheepish embarrassed grin...}
That's what I've had & run for years but it's crashed right
now pending HDD recovery.  I should probably be using some
kind of "appliance"-thing that's fanless/diskless anyway,
perhaps with wireless (or not...).  Looking for something with
"a good bit" of memory that I can flash something onto when
it runs out of warranty (or sooner if the stock firmware is
awful but the likes of ddwrt or openwrt or tomato or <insert
router distro here> turns out to be Totally Awesome(tm) :).

Some years ago I tried an early version Linksys WRT54g but it
wouldn't talk on my network, so I returned it.  More recent
versions of that router have cut back on the memory & flash &
no longer use a Linux-based image.  :(  (Gosh I seem to have
forgotten the OS they use now... came from WindRiver I think...)
Am looking for something "better" (for whatever definition
"better" might be... :).

-kc

> From: Collin Pruitt <collinp111 at gmail.com>
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux! <ale at ale.org>
> Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 17:16:22 -0400
> Subject: Re: [ale] Recommended small routers
>
> On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 17:06 -0400, Ken Cochran wrote:
>
> > Any favorite/recommended/"best" WiFi/router box a la LinkSys
> > WRT but with more memory, better support for Linux or BSD-based
> > software/firmware images, etc?  Umm... trying to remember...
> > There's a website that's a "compendium" of that information but
> > I don't remember what it is (or if it's even current anymore)
> > & maybe you guys have more direct experience.  :)
> >
> > Thanks, -kc
>
> If you want all that, why don't you just turn an old PC box into a
> router?
>
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> Collin Pruitt
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