Answer: Buffalo, but not with the manufacture’s firmware. On Wednesday, October 20, 2010 11:27, J Cruit wrote: > I do go through the linksys routers … but my favorite professional grade (but still affordable) APs are > the Ubiquti line (http://www.ubnt.com/ <http://www.ubnt.com/> ). I've got a couple of the PicoStation2 HP ones and a Bullet2 as well. > But they have the new AirRouter line out which would pretty much meet your requirements and looks like it is only 39$ or so. Thanks for the link – I ordered the Ubiquity AirRouter but it was backlogged until recently. Works fine - port forwarding puts my Linux server and a pair of security cameras on the ‘net. However, I have a couple of issues with their “AirOS” (based on BusyBox). While there’s built-in support for DynDns (although I did not test), there is no easily accessed status page for my ddclient (running on another host) to get my global ip. I can see my ip address with a browser, but the html source is a maze of JavaScript. I can use http://whatismyip.org/ to serve the purpose, but that’s more complex and less reliable. More annoyingly, I cannot use my dyndns.org name (which resolves to my globally unique dynamic ip) within the LAN - since this connects to the router’s web-interface instead. I tried adding a static route but must use 192.168.xxx.xxx to access hosts internally. So I picked up a Buffalo WHR-G300N with a 2 year warranty at Microcenter for $40. As delivered, the firmware was clunky, slow, and also did not route global ip requests within the LAN as desired. Although Buffalo’s web-site doesn’t mention DD-WRT for this model, I found it included at http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Supported_Devices#Buffalo and successfully flashed using the “first time” bin with the Buffalo interface. This is my first experience with DD-WRT and I am very impressed: fast, intuitive, more features, and I can use my DynDns.org subdomain within the LAN again. I’ll let you know how it holds up since my Tenda router is no longer working satisfactorily. About 3 months ago, I noticed inbound Vonage calls dropped after a couple of seconds. Callers could still hear me, but I could not hear them about 30% of the time. By plugging a handset directly into the Vonage adapter, I was able to rule out my FAX machine, security system, and other phones. I was ready to indite either the Vonage service or hardware until I swapped out the router – problem solved. I put the Tenda back into service and the problem retuned. For now, my recommendation stands: when buying cheap consumer-grade routers, buy several since they don’t last. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20110103/e2e003bb/attachment-0001.htm