Bill,

I do not know what kind of lockups you r referring.

But I have some Linksys WRT54GL + Tomato not rebooted for more than one year
now.Never have any problem.

Lloyd


On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 11:02 PM, Bill Sandiford <
[email protected]> wrote:

> 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:[email protected]]
> 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.
>
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