I use the Ubiquiti PicoStation and Bullet APs running DD-WRT (pro) on them and they are very solid. Although I tend to use them for evil hacking and less day to day use. They are super cheap and even come in the HP version with 1W of serious brain scrambling power. Also they are very small and are powered by POE (the pico comes with an adapter) Sounds like you actually still need Ethernet ports though so the routerstation pro is also supported by DD-WRT (Pro) and also powered by POE and you can choose up to two radios to put in it. I think I'm going to have to build one now, sounds pretty fun and dangerous. Of course openwrt is also supported but I have had stability issues with it as well although that was eons ago (at least a year!) so it may be resolved by now. --j On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Raymond Norton <admin at lctn.org> wrote: > > > Florin Iucha wrote: > > 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? > > > > > > We use MikroTik-embedded on RouterBoards, and installed on HDs. Both > ways work very well. Highly recommended on our side of the world. > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20100303/267f3488/attachment.htm