Additions inline.....
--------- Original Message --------- Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] The wireless
router dilemma
From: "Michael Knill" <michael.kn...@ipcsolutions.com.au>
Date: 10/6/14 5:22 pm
To: "AstLinux Users Mailing List" <astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Thanks Darrick
Pretty good reviews for the Ubiquity stuff. Not a real big saving over an ALIX
system but still worth investigating.
Thanks for all the comments everyone. Yes I know, you don't need to tell me.
You get what you pay for and the amount of stuffing around is not worth it.
PS Is the Ubiquity wireless good?
Regards
Michael Knill
I've had very good experience with the Ubiquity PowerAP-N. It's no longer
sold, but it was the best AP that I've ever used.
From: Michael Knill [mailto:michael.kn...@ipcsolutions.com.au]
Sent: Monday, October 6, 2014 12:16 AM
To: AstLinux Users Mailing List
Subject: [Astlinux-users] The wireless router dilemma
Ok I know this has been sort of discussed before but I have a bit of a dilemma.
I have one cost conscious organisation (a not for profit) with a couple of
single user sites that have a single phone and wireless.
I connect these sites back to the head office over the Internet to create a
closed telephony system.
I initially used Mikrotik routers which are very feature rich, very cheap and
do everything plus more however when my office router began to perform a DoS
attack on the US Dept of Labor (I kid you not), I thought I would not continue
using them.
Now obviously happy to spend the money at the head office on a good Astlinux
system, however its a little hard to justify an x86 box and a separate WAP at
the small site when you can buy one for under $100. Now admittedly it doesn't
do what I want it to do e.g. SSH Tunnelling so that is where my dilemma is.
The options I see are as follows:
1) Buy a cheap wireless router and put up with the limitations
2) Buy a cheap wireless router and roll OpenWRT onto it to give me more features
3) Run Astlinux and a separate WAP and thats that
4) Some other solution or product I have not looked at
Thanks
Regards
Michael Knill
Can you say what aspect of the Mikrotick router was compromised? I have a
friend who just put one into service.
Michael Graves
mgra...@mstvp.com
http://www.mgraves.org
o(713) 861-4005
c(713) 201-1262
sip:mgra...@mjg.onsip.com
skype mjgraves
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Slashdot TV. Videos for Nerds. Stuff that Matters.
http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=160591471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk
_______________________________________________
Astlinux-users mailing list
Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users
Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to
pay...@krisk.org.
