It’s been a long time since I’ve played with a MicroTik device, but this one 
seems powerful and is dirt cheap:

http://www.balticnetworks.com/mikrotik-hap-lite-tc-2-4ghz-indoor-access-point-tower-case-built-in-1-5dbi-antenna.html

It beats Edmund’s 7 W @ idle by a mile. :-)

• Max power consumption: 3W at 5V


> On Jan 25, 2016, at 9:53 AM, Karthik Poobal <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Pfsense appliances were overkill for my use case. So, after a bit of 
> research, I bought Ubiquiti’s EdgeRoute Lite 
> (https://www.ubnt.com/edgemax/edgerouter-lite/ 
> <https://www.ubnt.com/edgemax/edgerouter-lite/>). They are around $100 and 
> have been running them at multiple locations for the last couple of years. 
> Runs EdgeOS which is a fork of Vyatta which is based on Debian. I think it 
> pulls 7w idle and has been super reliable. 
> 
> Ubiquiti released two new and cheaper versions. EdgeRoute X ($50)  and 
> EdgeRouter X SFP ($80) but I haven’t really checked them out. 
> 
> 
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>> On Jan 25, 2016, at 8:45 AM, Shannon Roddy <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> Yeah.  I was looking at those.  But, $500 seems a bit steep for a home 
>> router.  I can roll my own atom system for less.
>> 
>> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 6:50 AM, Edmund Cramp <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> ➢ I'd like to go to a lower power system some day.
>> 
>> https://www.pfsense.org/products/product-family.html#sg-2440 
>> <https://www.pfsense.org/products/product-family.html#sg-2440> - pulls 7W at 
>> idle with 4 network interfaces - in an emergency you could run it off AA 
>> batteries.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> From: General [mailto:[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Shannon Roddy
>> Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2016 7:55 PM
>> To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Cox Residential and IPv6
>> 
>> Glad it's working... been a while since I looked at pfsense.  Forgot it was 
>> based on FreeBSD.  I might have to consider it next time I change my router 
>> out... I'd like to go to a lower power system some day.
>> 
>> On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 8:42 PM, Keith Stokes <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> Color me embarrassed. All these open browser windows for configuring/testing 
>> IPv6 have been open for months and I hadn't done anything in awhile.
>> 
>> Google-Foo served up this link from back in November when I tried again:  
>> https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=102339.0 
>> <https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=102339.0>
>> 
>> Follow directions, add an outbound IPv6 LAN-->WAN outbound rule and here I 
>> am:
>> Good news! Your current configuration will continue to work as web sites 
>> enable IPv6.
>> 
>> 
>> Your DNS server (possibly run by your ISP) appears to have IPv6 Internet 
>> access.
>> 
>> Your readiness score
>> 10/10
>> for your IPv6 stability and readiness, when publishers are forced to go IPv6 
>> only
>> 
>> On 1/24/2016 7:24 PM, Shannon Roddy wrote:
>> I'm on Comcast... YMMV.  I have a debian box that is running as my router.  
>> I couldn't get v6 to work with comcast with the ISC client.   I had to 
>> install the wide-dhcpv6-client package and go from there.  That was for the 
>> WAN connection.  Google around for the wide dhcp package and there are some 
>> howto docs out there.  I had to cobble together some scripts to get it all 
>> to work.
>> 
>> For the internal network, I chose to support auto config so that all my 
>> devices would work... so, I'm running radvd on the internal interface of my 
>> debian router.  Comcast supposedly will delegate larger than a /64, but I 
>> gave up on getting that to work.  Seemed like the route wasn't getting set 
>> on their end.
>> 
>> I ran into a number of issues getting it set up... and it's a bit hazy now 
>> because it's been a while and I didn't keep good notes.  But, if you need 
>> further info, I can look on my running system and let you know how I have 
>> things here.
>> 
>> On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 7:58 PM, Keith Stokes <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> Has anyone worked with Cox Residential in BR/Laf/NO on IPv6? Support told me 
>> a few weeks ago it's been deployed in our area.
>> 
>> I've learned that I get the best tech support from them on Sunday so today I 
>> hit them up in web chat for instructions or methods they use. Anything to 
>> get me started.
>> 
>> They want me to call their Home Networking Group. Since I'd rather pull out 
>> my fingernails than try to explain how I'm running a PfSense box with static 
>> and dynamic VPNs, a handful of creative rules, Macs, Linux (see there's a 
>> link in here somewhere to the list) and Windows, plus everything else I can 
>> think of to make life harder for them, I'm hoping someone else has done this 
>> before and is willing to share.
>> 
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