[OPLINTECH] Linux based WiFi Routers

[JKENZIG]

If you look in security tab of the interface you can block certain types of traffic and applications so that isn't an issue if you configure it correctly.
Jim

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From: oplintech-bounces at oplin.org [mailto:oplintech-bounces at oplin.org] On Behalf Of Eric Webster
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 11:30 AM
To: Eric Maynard; oplintech at oplin.org
Subject: Re: [OPLINTECH] Linux based WiFi Routers

I use DD-WRT at home and it's wonderful. I've got it on a WRT54G v1.1 and a newer Buffalo WHR-G125 bridged together to avoid running cables amongst the first and second floor of my house. It seems to be more stable on the Linksys as I retired it once to get the Buffalo which had a faster CPU but I was having all kinds of random issues. Replaced the Buffalo with my Linksys again and it's running fine. The Buffalo works well now that it isn't the primary router for whatever reason, both running v24sp1. I found this odd since the makers of DD-WRT partnered with Buffalo awhile back. The folks at DD-WRT seem to all concur that you should use the earlier WRT54G models if possible since the newer versions have been scaled back considerably.

I have several computers and two laptops scattered throughout my house and it works very well all and all, I've been using it since v21 I think and I love it. I'm not sure what the deal with my Buffalo device is, it may have just been a fluke honestly. Our patrons are able to roam in or out of the library and stay online since the wireless network here is the same as the city's wireless service. I would definitely investigate the feasibility of using it if we didn't need to use the 3rd party service to ensure connection to the city's network.

For what it's worth, a friend of mine that does consulting work setup a wireless network for an apartment complex using DD-WRT and said it didn't work out so well. It's mostly a RAM issue on the consumer grade routers, the connections just fill up too fast to be useable by a lot of people. I don't have any experience in such a large scale operation with it but it makes sense to me, people at home are going to be running torrents and P2P apps more than the general library patron which would put a good deal more load on it. Of course, you could always tweak the kernel to reduce the connection timeout and other networking related things to improve performance. I believe there are even options for this in the GUI.

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Eric Webster
Network Administrator
Worthington Libraries
http://www.worthingtonlibraries.org/
 
 

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From: oplintech-bounces at oplin.org [mailto:oplintech-bounces at oplin.org] On Behalf Of Eric Maynard
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 10:44 AM
To: oplintech at oplin.org
Subject: [OPLINTECH] Linux based WiFi Routers

Hello All,

I was just curious if anyone is currently using or has explored using, open source WiFi management solutions that allow you to program a Linksys WRT54G firmware with all the hotspot software.

http://coova.org/
http://wiki.openwrt.org/
http://www.dd-wrt.com/

Specifically, I would be interested to know if anyone has implemented any kind of authentication against these.

Thanks,

Eric Maynard
Head of Information Technology,
Holmes County District Public Library
Millersburg, OH  44654

Email [emaynard at holmeslib.org]
Phone [330.674.5972 x.224]
Fax   [330.674.1938] 


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