Bill, I do not know what kind of lockups you r referring.
But I have some Linksys WRT54GL + Tomato not rebooted for more than one year now.Never have any problem. Lloyd On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 11:02 PM, Bill Sandiford < [email protected]> wrote: > I currently have a WRT54GL in my home running the MLPPP version of Tomato, > and it is pretty solid but does lock up from time to time. The lockups > aren't to troublesome in my home situation, but would be annoying in a > business environment. > > We found the same thing in the field for most of the readily available > routers, whether they be Linksys, D-Link, Buffalo or otherwise. Most of the > time they were pretty good, but in certain circumstances they just locked > up, or wouldn't reconnect PPPoE after an outage, or other weird stuff. > > For that reason, we are now solely deploying Cisco 1721 routers for all of > our business customer deployments (whether they use VoIP or not). You can > pick them up on eBay from a variety of sources for < $100. I think we > bought 100 of them for $50 each. Then we put the WIC-1ADSL card into the > router (they are also around $50 on eBay). In some cases we put in 2 DSL > cards and bond the links with MLPPP. > > The great part of this solution is that for around $100 (for the single > DSL, or $150 for dual) we get a router that runs Cisco IOS and all the great > things that come along with that. The reliability is outright > awesome...they just never need to be rebooted. > > The downside is no web interface, so you have to know Cisco IOS or be > fairly comfortable with a command-line interface. Also, there is no > wireless in this series of routers, so you will need some sort of > stand-alone AP if the customer wants wireless (most of them do). > > Regards, > Bill > > -----Original Message----- > From: Wai Vii [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 6:06 PM > To: TAUG Technical > Subject: Re: [on-asterisk] Router Recommendations > > Another vote for Tomato, the traffic shaping works great whereas it > just seemed to cause problems with DD-WRT. Used to have DD-WRT loaded > on up to ten WRT54GS but found it slower than Tomato and the interface > more cumbersome. > > Another vote for the ASUS routers mentioned. Heard that the Buffalo > routers are OK too but I've never used one before. If you want to > spend a bit more, consider Soekris or Routerboard. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
