On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 09:50 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 5:18 AM, Stroller > <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote: > > > > On 19/4/2011, at 4:31am, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> ... > >> So, cutting to the chase; can anyone recommend from actual use, a home > >> lan router that has gigabit lan ports and very configurable/ > >> informative logging options? > >> > >> ps - I'm not interested in running an old linux or openbsd, machine as > >> router. Having a silent cool router the size and weight of a medium > >> book is too appealing. > > > > Consider OpenWRT. You can run it on something like the Netgear WNR2000, the > > Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH, or something even cheaper if you don't need wifi. > > I have WZR-HP-G300NH (running DD-WRT), if you don't plan on using wifi > it would be great. The wifi is really unstable and I couldn't > recommend this device if you're a heavy wifi user, but the wired > portion works great, the device itself is by far the fastest I've ever > owned, and it has a USB port so you can attach external storage in > case you want to use it as a server, too. > > If your wifi users are limited to web browsing/email it would probably > be okay for that, but if you do anything with persistent open > connections (ssh, gaming, streaming movies) then you'll quickly pull > your hair out in frustration at the constant wifi stalls and > disconnects. > > The good news about the bad wifi is that the constant negative reviews > and dissatisfied customers have forced the price down really low, I > got mine for about $50. :) >
I have this device and am using Firmware: DD-WRT v24-sp2 (08/07/10) std - its been totally stable since I dumped the buffalo firmware. My son plays windoze online games and I often move large files around as well as stream mythtv across it - no problems at all. Until I started powering the systems down at night (power charges went up :) it would stay up for over a month at a time and it was never a crash as to why it was restarted - usually power, or reconfiguration. BillK
