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I know I'm a little late to the party, but the Linksys routers he did buy originally are completely openWRT compatible (and here i'm gonna plug it, www.openwrt.
by no_wizard 10y ago
I know I'm a little late to the party, but the Linksys routers he did buy originally are completely openWRT compatible (and here i'm gonna plug it, www.openwrt.org), so i have to ask, why not put openwrt on these guys? I have the exact same routers, and they were terrible with the linksys stock firmware, but once I install openwrt it was actually quite nice. Had to upgrade the antennas on one though, beyond that, it was pretty good. Not that I'm knocking ubiquiti, cause they're amazing, btw.
- soylentcola 10y agoAt least according to the article, he didn't like the option. > After venting on Twitter, I got a variety of responses including that I should install the open source dd-wrt firmware or that I should buy a power adaptor that can automatically cycle the power every night. No, no, a hundred times no to both - if I buy a product then I expect it to work as advertised and not need to implement hacks to keep it alive. It's his prerogative of course but I'd definitely have tried a quick software fix like this before going out and buying $2k worth of all new gear. Maybe it would've solved the issues and maybe it wouldn't but in terms of time and money sunk into it, I think trying out the improved firmware would've been the logical step before moving on to new hardware. But then again everyone has a different level of aversion to different things so maybe his aversion to messing with open firmware was as strong as my aversion to buying more stuff. In the end, the blog post was about his solution and it's still good info to have.
- no_wizard 10y agoThis is a completely good point and exposes that I did not read the post close enough so sorry about that. These are excellent points