Thanks Ryan, Brandon, and to other folks who have responded. Good news is this seems to be a well served space, thanks in large part to good open source hacking. Now there is the choice of picking out the right software to run on one of these devices. :) But it looks like even the basic manufacturer provided versions give pretty good manageability.
Dana On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 9:46 AM, Ryan Thomson <[email protected]> wrote: > Dana, > > EasyTomato on the Asus RT-N16 comes to mind. It's what I run at home. > Super reliable and both easy and "advanced" functions. > > It has SSH access, local logging and remote logging capabilities. > > I had a microtik before but there was some kind of bug in the wireless and > it was never reliable. > > --Ryan > > On Apr 25, 2015, at 09:39, Dana Quinn <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hey folks - wanted to tap the collective wisodm of the folks here. I am > looking for suggestions on good home networking gear, especially a wireless > access point, that have things like good logging, perhaps command line > access, that allow me to troubleshoot problems in the network, and in > particular provide enough detail to show what problems might have happened > earlier in the day. > > here's my constraints - i'd like to spend in the normal consumer range for > the gear (<$200 US), and really I don't want to have to spend a lot of time > setting things up. I don't want to spend lots of time at home being the > IT guy, but I have some baffling networking problems at home and I need > more visibility into what's happening when there are problems. Probably > the ideal is normal consumer hardware that has good logging and allows > something like command line access. I'm good with rooting something if it's > a well-trod path and is still easy to set up. > > Here's what I'm hoping for - at work when I have problems with servers or > networking, i have good tools to figure things out - good system logging on > the linux systems, and usually i can coax good logs out of the network > gear. So when there's a problem, i have a good way to go in and see what > happened. But I have these baffling drops in connectivity in my network. > One thing I think is possible is that my wireless ap is losing its mind > occasionally and rebooting, I can't even really tell if that's happening. > With good system logs from the device I'd be able to. > > So at minimum you can read this as a request for a good, affordable > consumer grade wireless ap that has better than consumer management > capabilities, including perhaps ability to allow command line shell access > to view logs, perhaps forward logs off the device, and so on. > > Thanks for any suggestions on this question! > > Dana > > -- > Dana Quinn > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > > -- Dana Quinn [email protected]
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