My Linksys WRT54G is dying on me and I'd like to replace it with a real router/access point based on Linux and using only free software drivers. The old choice was Soekris [1] but they seem to be longer in the tooth and in the price: ~$270 for just the box and the motherboard, with the wireless being extra. Now, it seems that the top contenders are MicroTik RouterBoard [2] and Ubiquiti RouterStationPRO [3]. Netgate [4] has a nice kit for $300 that includes the motherboard, case, wi-fi card and antennas. Looking at the devices themselves, the Ubiquiti has Gigabit ports, while MicroTik doesn't yet have a board with both Gigabit and mini-pci (for wi-fi). From the software perspective, MicroTik has their own Linux Distro (RouterOS) which seems to be quite polished, while Ubiquiti uses OpenWRT, which I found to be not as stable. Does anybody has any hands-on experience with either of these two options and has good or bad experiences? Any other option that I should consider given the ~$300 budget? Thanks, florin [1] http://www.soekris.com/shop/ [2] http://routerboard.com/pricelist.php?started_from_home=1 [3] http://www.ubnt.com/rspro [4] http://www.netgate.com/product_info.php?cPath=27_104&products_id=812 -- Bruce Schneier expects the Spanish Inquisition. http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/fact/163 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20100303/5dfb2fc9/attachment.pgp