jdong
July 30th, 2007, 10:31 AM
Well, I bit the bullet and got a DD-WRT router. My faithful server at home that has routed my internets for around 4 years has had a second hard drive die yesterday. Unfortunately, thanks to the nature of IDE drives, a drive down usually means unpredictable system stability (the server went down hard even though that hard drive wasn't critical)
So, after a bit of research, I came across the Buffalo WHR-G125 as being the starchild of DD-WRT (as opposed to an WRT54G* model, as I would've expected)
I found one conveniently at Circuit City for 29.99USD this week (49.99-$20 rebates) and am very happy. Flashing wasn't a difficult procedure, and DD-WRT works great.
Of course, I promptly proceeded to waste 25 minutes of time compiling irssi on it!
Hopefully this means truly set-it-and-forget-it routing for me, and acceptable performance that I've accepted on my server for years. And a bit of reduced power bills would be nice too :D
Bottom line, ANYONE in the market for a router, I highly recommend to research/choose something that can run dd-wrt. The kinds of things you can do with dd-wrt are well worth the extra few dollars you spend on DD-WRT. It unlocks gateway abilities that would otherwise cost you 10 times as much, and even then I doubt you get this level of flexibility.
So, after a bit of research, I came across the Buffalo WHR-G125 as being the starchild of DD-WRT (as opposed to an WRT54G* model, as I would've expected)
I found one conveniently at Circuit City for 29.99USD this week (49.99-$20 rebates) and am very happy. Flashing wasn't a difficult procedure, and DD-WRT works great.
Of course, I promptly proceeded to waste 25 minutes of time compiling irssi on it!
Hopefully this means truly set-it-and-forget-it routing for me, and acceptable performance that I've accepted on my server for years. And a bit of reduced power bills would be nice too :D
Bottom line, ANYONE in the market for a router, I highly recommend to research/choose something that can run dd-wrt. The kinds of things you can do with dd-wrt are well worth the extra few dollars you spend on DD-WRT. It unlocks gateway abilities that would otherwise cost you 10 times as much, and even then I doubt you get this level of flexibility.