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That means the WRT1900AC is not one of your choices yet, right? Also, I'm personally very bummed by the fact it has Marvell WiFi. They tend to be really medioc
by ferongr 13y ago
That means the WRT1900AC is not one of your choices yet, right?
Also, I'm personally very bummed by the fact it has Marvell WiFi. They tend to be really mediocre and buggy, both in Windows, Linux and embedded applications.
- IgorPartola 13y agoI have been sticking to TP-LINK products lately. They and Buffalo seem pretty open and reasonably priced. Just a personal preference though. Lots of people I know are happy with Asus, Linksys, etc. Also, from what I understand Microtik routers are a great alternative to OpenWRT, though I have not used them myself.
- snowwindwaves 13y agoThe mikrotik hardware is good but I find the documentation is poor and several times I have found their implementation of a feature is half baked. For instance their openvpn is over tcp only. If you can make sure they do what you need and figure out how to set them up to achieve that they can be very cost effective. They are popular with the wireless ips crowd but have been facing strong competition from ubiquity. Given the choice i buy ubiquity products, but they don't have as many "features". Mikrotik have also been gpl violators.
- Spidler 13y agoI gave up on Mikrotik when I got one of their Switches, which explicitly have support for VLANs, and could only discover that the .. vlan..support was so botched that it couldn't make default VLAN's on different ports.
- snowwindwaves 13y agoI think you have to "unslave" the ports from the master so they pass their packets up to the CPU, assign the ports to a bridge, and then the assign the bridge to a vlan. It took me about 50 hours to figure out but I did manage to get three SSIDs on one radio, each of which would connect the client to a different vlan.
- sandGorgon 13y agosecond that. TP-Link WDR3600 has been an awesome dual band (5 ghz)router that supports openwrt and has a a beefier RAM and CPU.
- vdm 13y agoTP-Link WDR3600 is still the best value (non-AC), generally available, consumer grade dual band AP router on the market. Its ~impossible to get built-in modems with dual band Wifi on a functioning software stack, a separate HG612 (DSL) works great. Microtik can be great value if you're willing to do lots of vendor QA (for other values of vendor) in your lab before going in to production. Most of the problems are to do with community: the docs are an unloved wiki which only staff can modify; release management, QA and bug tracking are third rate; and the forum is a passive-aggressive Engrish ghetto with poor moderation. But config management, CLI and Winbox are still better than straight Linux, and boards start at $40 which can make it worth it.
- supergauntlet 13y agoThe WDR 4300 is on sale on newegg for under $50 after rebate, probably worth getting considering it's about the same price as the 3600 but has a slightly higher max bandwidth.
- azernik 13y agoI assume you're judging based on client hardware? That may be an unfair comparison; AFAIK (working on enterprise wireless APs), they're mostly just known for catering to Cisco wireless AP radio chips (and doing well with those). Other markets are secondary. Unfortunately, this means they don't care much about good drivers (including open source!) for anything other than Cisco's IOS.