Re: [LUG] Wireless router

[Philip Hudson <phil.hudson@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 30 Aug, 2013, at 7:32 pm, Daniel Robinson wrote:

> Hey guys
>
> I am looking for a router, I have a fibre over copper connection and  
> one of
> those little white BT boxes. up(80Mbps) down(10Mbps).
>
> I am looking for a Wireless router that is highly configurable. I  
> would
> like to have some features such as bandwidth limiting, p2p and torrent
> speed restrictions. I need to whitelist all devices that I wish to  
> allow to
> connect to my network, I would like anti hacking stuff if there is  
> such a
> thing.
>
> When choosing a router these are my priorities...
>
> 1: Security (the more secure the better)
> 2: Shape shifting and bandwidth limiting (wireless only)
> 3: Range over bandwidth
> 4: Logging
>
> The only spare computer I have is going to be my file server on a  
> different
> subnet, I will consider buying another old PC if it would allow me to
> "secure" my LAN over buying a new router!
>
> Advice and discussions needed! ;-)

We're all about teh free here, so with that in mind:

http://www.dd-wrt.com/site/index

(Other FLOSS firmware is available)

If it runs on your hardware, chances are it will give you ultimate  
control over every feature:

http://www.dd-wrt.com/site/support/router-database

Guess what? The UI occasionally sucks. Just like every other other  
router firmware web management UI.

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Phil Hudson                  http://hudson-it.no-ip.biz
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