[PLUG] Home Router Recommendations

Bill Barry bill at billbarry.org
Thu Jul 30 18:59:50 UTC 2015


On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 11:43 PM, Paul Mullen <pm at nellump.net> wrote:

> I've been neglecting the firmware on my eight-year-old Linksys
> wireless router for too long now, and my research leads me to believe
> that it's just too old to support modern firmware distributions like
> OpenWRT and DD-WRT.
>
> What are the cool kids using these days?  My needs are basic; this old
> Linksys has served just fine for years, after all.  My only real
> concern is maintainability of the underlying operating system.  I
> would be willing to spend more if the hardware could support a plain
> Linux or OpenBSD system, though.
>
>
>
Something that runs a modern version of openwrt could be nice.  I am
running cerowrt which is a branch of openwrt built for doing research on
bufferbloat.  http://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/cerowrt/news Most of that
development was done on Netgear WNDR 3800 (or 3700v2) routers, but the most
useful bits of that research have been merged back into openwrt in the
Barrier Breaker version. So I would recommend any router running Barrier
Breaker. The fq_codel they developed is supposedly now in the mainline
kernel so a heftier router running a newer kernel might also be a way to go.


Bill



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