I bought a WNR3500L. $80 router from Netgear. It has extra RAM and flash to support the biggest builds of dd-wrt. I'm reading the instructions for flashing the dd-wrt code into the unit about five times, so I don't brick the thing. This is made harder because the instructions are written by multiple authors and are scattered across a forum, a wiki, etc.
But just playing with the stock software of the 3500L ... ho lee shyte! Home routers have come a very long way in the past five years. The functionality and flexibility are off the chart. I'm buying another to use in stock mode to run the wifi in my house. I may get one more so I can have 300 Mbps wireless access to a server I'm moving to a shed. (It's a very nice shed.) And I'll probably set up a public guest wifi just for grins. SSID: Phishing Hole.
Example: storage device attached to USB port on the router can be accessed via LAN and/or WAN via ftp and/or http. WTFBBQ? Server SW on an eighty dollar router? I guess once you're serving a GUI via http, why not go crazy?
I can't wait to muck around in the dd-wrt managment SW.
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But just playing with the stock software of the 3500L ... ho lee shyte! Home routers have come a very long way in the past five years. The functionality and flexibility are off the chart. I'm buying another to use in stock mode to run the wifi in my house. I may get one more so I can have 300 Mbps wireless access to a server I'm moving to a shed. (It's a very nice shed.) And I'll probably set up a public guest wifi just for grins. SSID: Phishing Hole.
Example: storage device attached to USB port on the router can be accessed via LAN and/or WAN via ftp and/or http. WTFBBQ? Server SW on an eighty dollar router? I guess once you're serving a GUI via http, why not go crazy?
I can't wait to muck around in the dd-wrt managment SW.
- mark 12-18-2010 8:06 am