Hi, I've signed up with Comcast down in Corvallis where they're the only game in town.
For now I'm renting their combo cable modem/wifi router. I'd rather spend the $15/month on my own hardware, and I trust OpenWrt over their software. It seems you can't get cable modems whose firmware can be replaced. Something about how a glitch in the cable protocols could take down a neighborhood. :-) So I figure I'll get a dumb cable<-->ethernet box, plug it in and forget it. That leaves me choosing between one or two devices for the router and access point parts. In the past I've used separate boxes, with OpenWRT on a wired-only router and a cheap access point in its DMZ. I'd like to find a single box that does both, but the ones "recommended" (inevitably with "click to check price on Amazon" links) by industry sites are usually more expensive than two boxes would be. There's cheaper dual-purpose hardware that ought to suffice, but there are gotchas I don't understand, e.g. whatever causes my Raspberry Pi 4 running as an access point to be 1/10 the speed of the cable modem/access point it's plugged into. Anybody care to recommend either an approach (one device vs two) or specific hardware? This is for light home use mostly, BTW. I think our cable maxes out around 450mbps. Thanks, --Eric _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
