Router recommendations for tomato/dd-wrt?

[JimS]

I am needing to get another router for home use and was interested in dd-wrt. Down the road I may even try to put asterisk, misterhouse (linux HA program), or ?? on it if it has enough power. Low power is a plus if it can eliminate a PC being on 24x7. A serial port or two would be great as well as I plan to have quite a few things scattered about that do serial. I may want to add a USB drive if it takes the place of a PC. And, of course, price is a consideration but not the most important.

I have looked at the dd-wrt supported routers table but my eyes start to glaze over with all the choices.

Don't have to do everything with this one as I will probably be buying another in the future sometime. Looking for current recommendations. Thanks.

 

[wuench]

I am needing to get another router for home use and was interested in dd-wrt. Down the road I may even try to put asterisk, misterhouse (linux HA program), or ?? on it if it has enough power. Low power is a plus if it can eliminate a PC being on 24x7. A serial port or two would be great as well as I plan to have quite a few things scattered about that do serial. I may want to add a USB drive if it takes the place of a PC. And, of course, price is a consideration but not the most important.

I have looked at the dd-wrt supported routers table but my eyes start to glaze over with all the choices.

Don't have to do everything with this one as I will probably be buying another in the future sometime. Looking for current recommendations. Thanks.

I just picket up an Asus RT-N16 specifically to run DDWRT on. It has 32MB of flash, USB ports, Gigabit, and 802.11N. I am running a Mega version of DDWRT, specifically:

DD-WRT v24-sp2 (10/26/10) mega
(SVN revision 15508M NEWD-2 K2.6 Eko)

 

[pete_c]

I utilize the Linksys WRT-54GL, Buffalo wrt-hp-g54 and the Asus. I like the Buffalo and Asus the best. In the midwest I have three AP's. In the attic I have a Buffalo, 2nd floor a Linksys and main floor another Buffalo. These are all set up as POE AP's. All of them have the latest DD-WRT OS and I keep the out to around 50mV on each of the boxes. There's a whole developed "following" using just the DD-WRT OS such that you can load just about anything on these now with enough memory / ports to make them nice multifunctional "do alls".

In the garage I have an in-a-wall box combo AP/NIC port non DD-WRT AP made for a hotel room. It is a POE AP with a very small footprint which works fine in the garage. The house is pretty much wired up so these AP's are mostly used for the floating wireless devices, Chumbies, picture frames, etc.

 

[fresno51]

Linksys WRT-54GL - blue color. The best router you can find.

 

[Quixote_1]

I'm using a Netgear WNR3500U/v2, flashed to Tomato 1.28 (beta) and it works well.
I like the USB port on the back. I've set up an external HD that I can access over the network where I store my music.

 

[Kevin L]

I just picket up an Asus RT-N16 specifically to run DDWRT on. It has 32MB of flash, USB ports, Gigabit, and 802.11N. I am running a Mega version of DDWRT, specifically:

DD-WRT v24-sp2 (10/26/10) mega
(SVN revision 15508M NEWD-2 K2.6 Eko)

+1 for the Asus RT-N16 and DD-WRT

 

[video321]

I went with the Asus WL520-gu over the Asus RT-N16 only because there were questions on the VLAN support (which I really needed) at the time I purchased my new router. This is probably resolved now. That said, this Asus router is the best $25 I spent in a long time! VLANs, DNS, SSH, USB, Multiple BSSIDs and more...all running flawlessly and never locks up. Using DD-WRT.

 

[Kevin L]

I went with the Asus WL520-gu over the Asus RT-N16 only because there were questions on the VLAN support (which I really needed) at the time I purchased my new router. This is probably resolved now. That said, this Asus router is the best $25 I spent in a long time! VLANs, DNS, SSH, USB, Multiple BSSIDs and more...all running flawlessly and never locks up. Using DD-WRT.

I also have the Asus router you have. If you don't need the 802.11n for wireless, the Asus router is a great value.

Kevin

 

[JimS]

I went for the Asus WL520gu. I didn't find any rebates but still was a reasonable deal at $45. Seems like a popular model for open source software upgrades. Here is a presentation on repurposing it:

http://www.securitytube.net/Hacking-the-Asus-WL520gU-Wireless-Router-%28Notacon%29-video.aspx

The internet radio project he refers to is here:
http://mightyohm.com/blog/2008/10/building-a-wifi-radio-part-1-introduction/

After I get a few hours on it I will look at replacing the software.