Xaero_toast
Limp Gawd
- Joined
- Dec 29, 2008
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Well, the time has finally come to upgrade the router. It's an old WRT54G, that has been running DD-WRT for over 10 years.
It's worked well for me, but I need more wireless bandwidth and gigabit wired ports. It's also probably a good idea to get up to current wireless security standards anyway.
Is DD-WRT still a good open router firmware, or are there better options? Back when I first tried it, it added a lot of features over the default linksys firmware. I may need a fair degree of configurability, as there's a fair chance I will be building a wireless bridge to share internet with my farm. I live on the edge of town, but from my antenna tower I have line of sight to my parents farm. Down the road, when I add the wireless bridge link, I will have multiple subnets (my home, my parents home, and farm office).
Linksys equipment has done well for me. In the absence of a good reason to do otherwise, I will probably go with them again, but my knowledge on this is highly out of date and if anyone has some current information to share, I'm all ears.
Thanks
It's worked well for me, but I need more wireless bandwidth and gigabit wired ports. It's also probably a good idea to get up to current wireless security standards anyway.
Is DD-WRT still a good open router firmware, or are there better options? Back when I first tried it, it added a lot of features over the default linksys firmware. I may need a fair degree of configurability, as there's a fair chance I will be building a wireless bridge to share internet with my farm. I live on the edge of town, but from my antenna tower I have line of sight to my parents farm. Down the road, when I add the wireless bridge link, I will have multiple subnets (my home, my parents home, and farm office).
Linksys equipment has done well for me. In the absence of a good reason to do otherwise, I will probably go with them again, but my knowledge on this is highly out of date and if anyone has some current information to share, I'm all ears.
Thanks