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I used to use Tomato, and I was satisfied with it, but the problem was that typical home router is weak hardware. Once I started hosting things, it just couldn
by jstewartmobile 10y ago
I used to use Tomato, and I was satisfied with it, but the problem was that typical home router is weak hardware. Once I started hosting things, it just couldn't keep up.
I moved to fanless PCs (like ALIX / Netgate / Soekris) running OpenBSD. A 500 MHz x86 beats the pants off of the neglected MIPS chipsets most home routers are built around.
OpenBSD because pf is just easier to manage than iptables, and having all of the config as text files makes it easy to track changes with source control.
- tapper 10y agoCool I did think about getting a small form factor PC to run OPNsense, but a verry nice man of the Gargoyle forums posted me the WRT1900 AC v2 which has a 1.6 ghz duel core CPU and i don't host any thing. For what i use it for it does just fine. One of the things that keeps me with Gargoyle is it works grate with a screen reader which i have to use as i am blind. I can use ddwrt and openwrtI just like the lay out of Gargoyle better.
- jstewartmobile 10y agoAnother benefit to fanless PC is that being able to install custom software is a given. Back in my old custom firmware days, I always had to be careful about router revision numbers to make sure I was getting a model that I could re-flash. Sometimes, the hackable revisions were in short-supply. Perhaps that is less of a problem these days?
- tapper 10y agoYeah it can still be a pane with some routers. TP-Link are constantly making very small upgrades to routers and making a v1 v2 pissing people off lol The werst thing is wen they make a v1 and then a v2 with a completely different chip set.