[ale] Looks like time for a new wireless router

[Chuck Payne]

Leam,

I have a Banana-Pi BPi-F3 that is RISC-V, I will let you know how it goes.

On Mon, Dec 30, 2024 at 4:56 PM Leam Hall via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> Chuck, cool! I've started looking at the Banana Pi because they have
> alternate CPU architectures. Not sure I have a *need* for RISC-V, but I do
> test compiles and it'd be nice to add that to the validation farm.   :)
>
> Leam
>
>
>
> On 12/29/24 00:05, Chuck Payne via Ale wrote:
> > Leam,
> >
> > I have three Banana-Pi routes, they all run OpenWTR or ImmortalWTR.
> Take a
> > look at their latest because what cool about it you can replace the wifi
> > board.  Which means that you can upgrade the wifi to Wifi 8 if and when
> it
> > comes out. I am current doing Wifi6, the wifi board I have comes with
> > Tri-Band radio on it.
> >
> > https://docs.banana-pi.org/en/BPI-R4/BananaPi_BPI-R4
> >
> > It has four stand 1GB ports or you can use SPF connectors and do either
> > 2.5Ghz which I am doing at this time or up to 10 GB.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Dec 28, 2024 at 2:25 PM dj-Pfulio via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Fwiw https://www.asus.com/event/network/eol-product/
> >>
> >>
> >> On December 28, 2024 11:28:23 AM EST, Tom & JaVonn via Ale <ale at ale.org
> >
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Leam:
> >>>
> >>> I'd like to throw out two recommended features that our 6 year old ASUS
> >>> RT-N66W offers.  The ability to schedule the WiFi (ours is set to go
> off at
> >>> 11 pm and on at 7 am) plus the ability to set output power level (we
> keep
> >>> it at level 3 of 4 as it's only used for cellphones -- our 3
> workstations
> >>> are all wired).
> >>>
> >>> When we leave town, we turn off the scheduler and raise the power level
> >>> to high, for the use of a couple of WiFi security cameras.
> >>>
> >>> My engineering background and boatloads of studies lead me to minimize
> >>> exposure to radio waves.  Since we learned that 5G had come to our
> >>> neighborhood last year, we sleep inside of a shielding canopy.
> >>>
> >>> Tom
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, 2024-12-27 at 20:46 -0600, Leam Hall via Ale wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Currently using a 3 year old ASUS RT-ACRH18 with two wired and 4-6
> >>> wireless clients, usually low load. It was having issues delivering a
> >>> video, and the log showed a bunch of dropped connections from all over
> the
> >>> IPv4 range.
> >>>
> >>> When I remotely rebooted, its IP pinged but the routing and web
> interface
> >>> didn't come back up. Tried a short power off, same issue. A little
> longer
> >>> power off worked, at least for the moment. Did a firmware update once
> it
> >>> came back up fully. After I send this I'm going to shut it off for the
> >>> night and see if it helps clear things out.
> >>>
> >>> However, having a backup is always a good idea. Recommendations? House
> >>> isn't too big, wood and whiteboard internal walls. Main issue is that
> my
> >>> wife's Mac is old and sometimes doesn't keep a good connection. Cost
> is a
> >>> consideration, still haven't found a job yet.
> >>>
> >>> Recommendations?
> >>>
> >>> Leam
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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