The Ubiquiti bridges are great. Very simple to configure, and reliable. Great bandwidth, at least over 0.5 miles (they claim to be able to cover much greater distances). All at 1/10 the price of comparable gear from other companies. I've also used Ubiquiti's UniFi access points, which work quite well, although I did have one die on me (under warranty luckily). I've had bad luck with their Airrouters though - I bought a pair to use at home, and they have been quite unreliable.
Regarding firmware options, I really like Openwrt. In my experience, it's more reliable than DD-WRT. It's also more command line oriented than DD-WRT - it was designed to be used by CLI only first, the excellent LuCi web interface was added on later. And unlike RouterOS and Ubiquiti's airOS, it's entirely open source. Since you mentioned the Raspberry Pi, I used one of those as a home router while I was in a temporary living situation for a few weeks. I used IPFire, which worked great. I'm not sure about writes to the SD card . . . I would hope that they would avoid that in a distro intended to run in an embedded type of environment, but I'm not sure. It did look pretty funny though . . . since I don't have a case for my raspberry pi, it was in a yogurt container with a slit cut for the ethernet and power cables. And "This is the INTERNET! Don't unplug" written on the side. Asa On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 8:48 AM, Anthony Carrico <[email protected]> wrote: > Cooltools recently had a glowing review of picostation (and nanostation, > a bridge) here: > > http://kk.org/cooltools/archives/22051 > > Anyone know about these? Anyone tried the bridges? > > This: > https://github.com/openwisp/OpenWISP-Firmware/wiki/Picostation > > says flashing is just power cycle with reset button down, tftp, put > image, wait until led stops blinging, then finally telnet in as root. > > -- > Anthony Carrico > >
