For an open source router, theres certainly an absolute dearth of information on the actual hardware inside the router.
I mentioned this on the absolutely laughable "Hardware Specification" page on the myopenrouter site (it had gems like "firewall"... yes very hardware) and now the page is gone altogether.
Buffalo has already started working with DD-WRT and offers cheaper yet more powerful and reliable routers than Netgear. It's a nice attempt but it's a bit too late.
@Justin I love my easily modded Buffalo router. It was only 25 bucks and has been running Tomato firmware for 2 years. The only problem is Buffalo can no longer sell routers in the US due to a patent issue from another company. Until that settlement can be reversed Buffalo can't sell any more routers. Outside the US, they're still being sold and still a great product if you can get it.
However, this Netgear router is joke for it selling point and price. It has neither wireless N or a gigabit lan connection. Yeah, it can modded, but so can the Linksys WRT54GL which can be had for between 50-60 bucks. Its only 200mhz, but I doubt that will make a serious difference in the performance of the router. Sorry Netgear, you're going to need to try harder to win over people
honestly most of the open source routers are 100bt and .11g. linux 802.11n support is pretty weak, and most of the chipsets that have gigabit ethernet onboard are not supported by linux. most of the offerings, be it netgear linksys or buffallo, are pretty closely in line. there's really only 4-5 different chipsets, most of the difference is packaging. every now and then you'll have exceptional routers that'll have a usb port. NAS's that run linux are viable if you are interested in hooking up a disk drive.
"open source support" is one thing, but as I tried to state in the original post, "open source hardware documentation" is really the key element. its lack of documentation that keeps most modern wifi routers from being linux compatible, not lack of "support".
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For an open source router, theres certainly an absolute dearth of information on the actual hardware inside the router.
I mentioned this on the absolutely laughable "Hardware Specification" page on the myopenrouter site (it had gems like "firewall"... yes very hardware) and now the page is gone altogether.
down mod please, i am wrong, i just cant find the navigation to the page any more. the page still exists, its at:
http://www.myopenrouter.com/article/10066/WGR614L-Hardware-Specifications
Buffalo has already started working with DD-WRT and offers cheaper yet more powerful and reliable routers than Netgear. It's a nice attempt but it's a bit too late.
@Justin
I love my easily modded Buffalo router. It was only 25 bucks and has been running Tomato firmware for 2 years. The only problem is Buffalo can no longer sell routers in the US due to a patent issue from another company. Until that settlement can be reversed Buffalo can't sell any more routers. Outside the US, they're still being sold and still a great product if you can get it.
However, this Netgear router is joke for it selling point and price. It has neither wireless N or a gigabit lan connection. Yeah, it can modded, but so can the Linksys WRT54GL which can be had for between 50-60 bucks. Its only 200mhz, but I doubt that will make a serious difference in the performance of the router. Sorry Netgear, you're going to need to try harder to win over people
honestly most of the open source routers are 100bt and .11g. linux 802.11n support is pretty weak, and most of the chipsets that have gigabit ethernet onboard are not supported by linux. most of the offerings, be it netgear linksys or buffallo, are pretty closely in line. there's really only 4-5 different chipsets, most of the difference is packaging. every now and then you'll have exceptional routers that'll have a usb port. NAS's that run linux are viable if you are interested in hooking up a disk drive.
"open source support" is one thing, but as I tried to state in the original post, "open source hardware documentation" is really the key element. its lack of documentation that keeps most modern wifi routers from being linux compatible, not lack of "support".
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