Robert, I went to the local department megastore and "cheaping out" gives you nothing close to what you've spec'd here. Save $20 and you lose gigEthernet. Save $20 and you lose dual band. You've spec'd one with USB 2.0, and with all the dev bells and whistles, and I don't see much that comes close. You've done your homework: Looking through the list of supported devices, the wndr3700 v2 is near the top in terms of processor speed, flash, and ram.
Hey, I've got a dual band gigE router with USB already. Oops, it's on the "unsupportable" list. Oh well. I don't need to worry about bricking anything, since I've got an unbrickable backup. That makes the missus happy. Regrets, but I can't add anything about the reliability of the product, but on price, it looks like this is a winner. You might be able to find one for $20 cheaper, but wait, is that a V1 with half the flash? I did read some reviews; complaints about dropping wired LAN connections, firmware upgrades that performed like downgrades, people "power cycling three times a day"; all of it could mean anything. When you look on that OpenWrt forum, they tote is as the champion on price and out-of-the-box compatibility. You've tweaked my interest. On 17/04/2011 6:26 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > as a followup to my posting yesterday about a LUG-wide project to > select a single decent wireless router and make an openwrt project out > of it, i ran across the netgear WNDR3700 (v2). you can see the brief > specs here: > > http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/start#netgear > > and a more detailed doc here: > > http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/netgear/wndr3700 > > as well as a detailed writeup on how to download, build and install > here: > > http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howtobuild/build.wndr3700 > > which suggests it should be a safe choice, and it would seem to have > all of the features i'd minimally want, including at least one USB > port, plus a serial port and JTAG in case someone wants to get > ambitious. it's available at canada computers for $139: > > http://canadacomputers.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=netgear+wndr3700&x=0&y=0 > > which is, admittedly, a bit pricey for a wireless router but it is > dual band and gigabit so there's that. > > i updated my openwrt source tree and followed the instructions in > that third link and, other than a couple trivial updates to the > recipe, i got an image to build. haven't tested it yet since i don't > have the router, but i know CC has 3 in stock in their rideau store so > i'm planning on popping down there today and getting one. > > thoughts? are there any fatal drawbacks to this choice of router? > any alternative suggestions? the fact that it's listed as supported > and that someone wrote a fairly complete recipe for building the image > already suggests it would be hard to go wrong, but i'm open to > dissenting opinions. > > rday > _______________________________________________ Linux mailing list [email protected] http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux
