Do you have an old computer lying around? If you want to go the really cheap route just buy a couple NICs and a small switch then install Smoothwall on it <http://www.smoothwall.org/>. I've been using it for about 4 years now and I haven't been disappointed yet. -Adam On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 12:33:13PM -0600, J Cruit wrote: > 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 <[1]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 > [2]tclug-list at mn-linux.org > [3]http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > References > > Visible links > 1. mailto:admin at lctn.org > 2. mailto:tclug-list at mn-linux.org > 3. http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list