my roomate works for Red Hat and our router is going to shit and he said we could go in on one together if it's flashable to run some flavor of linux, i don't know if tomato or dd-wrt is better but i'm not going to be the one messing with it anyway

ANYWAYS

does anyone have any experience with succesfully flashing a wireless-n router and which one would you recommend?

5/29/2008 6:48:06 PM

why do you need your router to run linux in it's firmware? why do you care what embedded OS it has, as long as it works?




[Edited on May 29, 2008 at 7:16 PM. Reason : ]

5/29/2008 7:16:04 PM

clearly you've never lived with someone who works/lives for linux

5/29/2008 7:56:12 PM

is he going to attempt to write his own firmware?

this is really more trouble than it's worth by a long shot

why doesn't he just setup a linux server to be the router

5/29/2008 8:02:32 PM

Listen, just go buy a Buffalo WZR-G144NH Linksys WRT300N v1


Oh, and fwiw, you could've just done a quick Google search like: http://www.google.com/search?q=dd-wrt+wireless+n and viewed the first choice ... it's a post where someone is asking the same question in the DD-WRT forum and Brainslayer (the main DD-WRT guy) answers the question directly:

http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=19799

Quote :

"Linksys WRT300N v1 (gigabit ethernet) Linksys WRT150N v1 Linksys WRT350N v1 (maybe v1.1, but i newer saw this model) Buffalo WZR-G300N Buffalo WZR-G144NH (gigabit ethernet) and there are surelly alot of others. personally i have good experiences with the buffalop models "

Oh wait, actually don't buy a Buffalo, they're still having legal problems I think ... so get the Linksys.

[Edited on May 29, 2008 at 10:02 PM. Reason : .]

5/29/2008 10:00:54 PM

buffalo is (or was), hands-down, the best product out there...damn CSIRO

also:

tomato >>>>>> dd-wrt

5/30/2008 12:16:39 PM

Quote :

"clearly you've never lived with someone who works/lives for linux"

its a router. tell him his fucking toaster is running WinCE and he needs to reflash that bitch, too.

5/30/2008 5:43:05 PM

well the 300N isn't gigabit like the person posted, and the buffalo isn't sold in the US.

so no router that has gigabit ethernet runs dd-wrt. that's a shame.

5/30/2008 5:51:20 PM

just get one without a gigabit switch
then hook it up to a gigabit switch

you don't need 1000mbps to surf the web, and i highly doubt youre using the router as an actual router, so this will work just fine

5/30/2008 10:34:04 PM

I love the apple routers....but I have a buffalo router I love!

but yeah go for ddwrt I love it on my router.

5/30/2008 10:49:37 PM

The new version of ddwrt (v24) is pretty cool. I like the bandwidth monitor.

5/31/2008 1:07:12 AM