On Mon, 14 May 2012 06:33:36 -0700 Jack Bates <[email protected]> wrote:
... > Now what hardware to get? I think built in wireless and two or more USB > ports would be a good start (and of course well supported by OpenWrt). > It also narrows options down quite a bit > > Two or more USB ports would be nice because we often put more than one > printer in a location (e.g. black and white and color) As other(s) have said, why not just use a hub? They're cheap, and AFAIK, you shouldn't have any issue with power insofar as the printers have their own. > One of the few devices in the table of hardware with built in wireless > and two USB ports is the WL-500g, but I think it is not super current > anymore, and so not easy to get. Not here in Kigali, Rwanda anyway > > I am eying the TP-Link TL-WR1043ND. It has only one USB port, but it is > cheap and readily available I really like my Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH: http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/buffalo/wzr-hp-g300h 64MB RAM, 32MB Flash, 400MHz CPU, USB port (only 1), rock solid and supported beautifully by OpenWrt (although I've seen reports of wireless disconnects, I've never noticed). The only stability issue I ever had with this thing was when I first started trying to run a Wordpress blog on it (off a full LAMP stack (!): OpenWrt, lightty, MySQL, PHP), and it kept spontaneously rebooting. The problem: PHP was eating too much memory, and the OOM killer / watchdog combination (IIUC) was causing reboots. I added swap, and now it's once again rock solid (although it's a dog when the PHP code causes it to hit swap and thrash ;)) Celejar _______________________________________________ openwrt-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-users
