david> Given current pricing and availability, I'm a big fan of the
david> netgear WNDR3700 ($139) and 3800 ($150), they are what we used
david> for Scale this year (the 3800 has more memory)
I moved from m0n0wall on a WRAP board and a WRT54gl with dd-wrt to the
WNDR3700 running dd-wrt and I'm pretty happy, even with the box
sitting in the basement. We've got wireless all over the house,
though I admit I've wired all my locations with fixed desktops. The
joy of owning the house and a drill.
david> These are powerful enough to act as a fileserver for you (with
david> an external USB drive)
Eh... got a dedicated box with mirrored drives and tape backups.
david> These support both 2.4GHz and 5GHz (5GHz is far, far less
david> crowded if your equipment supports it)
david> using dd-wrt or openwrt will give you a huge amount of
david> flexibility compared to any vendor's stock firmware.
My only complaint with this setup is that the DNS server software they
ship with dd-wrt, DNSMasq, is a huge step backwards from m0n0wall.
But I do like having it all in one single box again...
Mostly, I want my home systems to be more easily assigned IPs/names in
DNS without me having to specify:
address=/wp/192.168.1.61
address=/wp.stoffel.home/192.168.1.61
in a crazy format. It sucks. I've been too busy with other
distractions to look into fixing this or moving to Tomato or other
tools. Anyone have a suggestion on fixing it?
And to Andrew, I agree that these are nice boxes, flash dd-wrt on
there and you should be just fine. And then stick it in the center of
the basement up high and you should have good covereage everywhere.
John
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