[clue-tech] Wi-Fi router recommendations?

[Peter Kuykendall]

David L. Anselmi wrote:
> Are there any other wireless routers worth 
> considering?  Either because they also can run a custom Linux install, 
> or they offer better price/performance, or they have useful features 
> (magic bridging, better security protocol support, etc.)?

I have had really good luck with the Belkin routers that are sold at 
Wal-Mart and Micro Center for $40.  They do Ethernet bridging.  That's 
good because you can plug your Linux machine's Ethernet NIC into the 
router and not have to worry about any wireless config on the Linux 
side.  From the Linux box's point of view it just sees Ethernet.

Because the bridging is proprietary you will need 2 of these devices to 
do it, one for the Linux machine and one connected to the network.  The 
one down side is that there is some instability in the router that will 
demand a power cycle every 2 weeks or so.  This seems to be aggravated 
by having a lot of connections open, so it may just be running out of 
RAM trying to track the state of all of those connections.  Or it could 
have a memory leak, or a hundred other things.  But it's easy enough to 
power cycle that I don't mind living with it.

Just my $0.02.

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