[plug] Wireless router recommendations

[Thomas Cuthbert]

I think i've had one major crash which wiped my configuration and caused it
to boot back into the linksys image (this was a while ago and I've since
done a few upgrades). I sometimes (very rare) have to reboot the router as
I lose wifi but that could just because of my macbook pro. My suggestion
would be to archive an encrypted copy of your configuration to your
personal FTP storage on your ISP or remote disk.

I barely scratch the sides in terms of mem/cpu utilisation but I'm not
doing heavy SSL VPN. I personally have it connected to Telstra Velocity
which gets handed to me via UTP/Cat5 PPPoE as well as a Fixed Wireless
Service which is similiar to NBN ie provisioned via DHCP. If you require
ADSL you will need to get a modem and attach it to one of the ethernet
ports I think.



Regards,

Thomas Cuthbert


On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 2:14 PM, Brad Campbell <brad at fnarfbargle.com> wrote:

> On 16/11/16 14:07, Thomas Cuthbert wrote:
>
>> Brad, I'm currently using OpenWRT chaos calmer on my 1900.
>>
>>
>>
> Thanks Thomas. I sent Dad out to pick up a unit from Hardly Normal, so
> I'll see when I get down there tonight what version/variant he has and go
> from there.
>
> The reviews seem to give it significantly better performance than the TP
> link, but given the TP Link was about $60, some 5/6 years ago that's hardly
> surprising.
>
> I can migrate the dhcp/firewall/openvpn config across from the other unit,
> so it should be a fairly simple upgrade.
>
> Do you have any stability issues? I've seen people advocating scheduled
> reboots (which I think is nuts).
>
> Regards,
> Brad
>
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