Last time I had to make this decision I ended up taking the easy way out and going with the top recommended option on wirecutter: http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-wi-fi-router/ I've been pretty happy with the device and haven't had to muck with it much. It does require a restart to make static dhcp leases which is completely dumb but it's also the only thing i've found that's out of line so far.
Prior I explored using a routerboard for this at home but found it was limited in it's support for UPNP and DLNA. I also had good luck repurposing a checkpoint vpn device as a pfsense box. It was just intel hardware which made it easy to install pfsense on. Thats probably not a common thing for someone to come across though. On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 11:43 PM, Paul Mullen <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been neglecting the firmware on my eight-year-old Linksys > wireless router for too long now, and my research leads me to believe > that it's just too old to support modern firmware distributions like > OpenWRT and DD-WRT. > > What are the cool kids using these days? My needs are basic; this old > Linksys has served just fine for years, after all. My only real > concern is maintainability of the underlying operating system. I > would be willing to spend more if the hardware could support a plain > Linux or OpenBSD system, though. > > > -- > Paul > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
