[plug] Wireless router recommendations

[Dean Bergin]

Hello Brad,

What type of NBN do they have? is it HFC, FTTN or FTTP?

If there is already an NTU/CPE device that does the modulation and media
conversion and is presented in the premises as Ethernet, then I would
highly recommend sticking with OpenWRT with a Raspberry Pi, which is very
functional even on a dev banch[1] on or some other dev/SoC (System On Chip)
board such as the up-board up2[2] (currently being kickstarted[3]).

[1]https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/raspberry_pi_foundation/raspberry_pi
[2] http://www.up-board.org/upsquared/
[3]
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/802007522/up-squared-the-first-maker-board-with-intel-apollo



On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 10:25 AM Brad Campbell <brad at fnarfbargle.com> wrote:

> G'day all,
>
> I've got my parents on a TL-WR1043ND running openwrt. This router has
> been absolutely solid for about 6 years now. Unfortunately they've now
> "upgraded" to the NBN, and the poor thing just doesn't seem to be able
> to keep up. The wireless has also always been a bit slow.
>
> So, looking for recommendations on new hardware with better wireless and
> some more balls. The thing is connected to a 16 port switch, so number
> of ports isn't important, it just needs to be able to handle the packet
> load.
>
> Is anyone running something that is still locally available and they'd
> recommend for openwrt?
>
> Regards,
> Brad
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Kind Regards,

*Dean Bergin*.
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