I currently have a WRT54GL in my home running the MLPPP version of Tomato, and it is pretty solid but does lock up from time to time. The lockups aren't to troublesome in my home situation, but would be annoying in a business environment.
We found the same thing in the field for most of the readily available routers, whether they be Linksys, D-Link, Buffalo or otherwise. Most of the time they were pretty good, but in certain circumstances they just locked up, or wouldn't reconnect PPPoE after an outage, or other weird stuff. For that reason, we are now solely deploying Cisco 1721 routers for all of our business customer deployments (whether they use VoIP or not). You can pick them up on eBay from a variety of sources for < $100. I think we bought 100 of them for $50 each. Then we put the WIC-1ADSL card into the router (they are also around $50 on eBay). In some cases we put in 2 DSL cards and bond the links with MLPPP. The great part of this solution is that for around $100 (for the single DSL, or $150 for dual) we get a router that runs Cisco IOS and all the great things that come along with that. The reliability is outright awesome...they just never need to be rebooted. The downside is no web interface, so you have to know Cisco IOS or be fairly comfortable with a command-line interface. Also, there is no wireless in this series of routers, so you will need some sort of stand-alone AP if the customer wants wireless (most of them do). Regards, Bill -----Original Message----- From: Wai Vii [mailto:wai...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 6:06 PM To: TAUG Technical Subject: Re: [on-asterisk] Router Recommendations Another vote for Tomato, the traffic shaping works great whereas it just seemed to cause problems with DD-WRT. Used to have DD-WRT loaded on up to ten WRT54GS but found it slower than Tomato and the interface more cumbersome. Another vote for the ASUS routers mentioned. Heard that the Buffalo routers are OK too but I've never used one before. If you want to spend a bit more, consider Soekris or Routerboard. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: asterisk-unsubscr...@uc.org For additional commands, e-mail: asterisk-h...@uc.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: asterisk-unsubscr...@uc.org For additional commands, e-mail: asterisk-h...@uc.org
