Re: Stable wireless home router?


dlandespub@xxxxxxxxx writes:
Anyone know of any stability tests done on home routers, or have an
opinion backed by some serious data? User reviews are totally bi-polar:
("My XXX works great. Always on, never have a problem!" "Resets twice a
day, never buying a XXX again!").

I think you'll find that different uses of the wifi routers will have
totally different answers as to the reliability.

One major cause of many small embedded systems rolling over and
playing dead after a week or two of uptime is that some aspect of the
firmware has either memory leaks or just fragments the memory. If you
never use that buggy part of the firmware or use it sparingly you
won't have any problems for a good long time. If your computers
really bang on the buggy aspect, expect the device to require reboots
after only a short time.

I have never had my wrt54g running openwrt need a reboot because it
was wedged. I regularly see uptimes of many months when I log in to
make config changes. No doubt, half the reason is that I only use the
box to bridge the ethernet to the airwaves and run the wpa2-psk
authentication. It doesn't do nat, dhcp, filtering/firewalling etc.

-wolfgang
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Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/
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