I believe William came to the same conclusion a couple of months ago. I believe the buffalo routers are my next purchase.
dan On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Dan Bidleman <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Just wanted to share my experience with dd-wrt vs open-wrt. > > A little background: > I have a Lenovo Thinkpad x220 running debian testing with a intel 6300 > wireless chipset. The access point I was connecting to was a Buffalo > WZR-HP-G300NH running its factory install of dd-wrt. > > The story: > I started having issues (it was working before this, and for some > reason stopped) one night with my router when I was connected via my > laptop. The router locked up, I rebooted it, tried to connect, it > locked up again, tried this a few times to no avail. I eventually > figured out that I could talk to it over the wired connection, but as > soon as I tried to talk to it or to the internet over wireless, it > would lock up hard. > I took this to be that there was a problem with the hardware (perhaps) > but did a factory restore (after a bit of troubleshooting), this did > not do anything. Then I flashed the firmware to the newest stable > version supplied by Buffalo (same version that was already on the > machine), this also did not work. I flashed it to the newest > (testing) version of dd-wrt buffalo supplied and it still did not > work. Upon contacting Buffalo, they said it was the wireless hardware > and would RMA the device. > While waiting on the RMA to be passed down to me, I went over to > Andrew's house, who has the same device as I do, and lo and behold the > device locked up upon me connecting to it. So the problem was the > software, not the hardware. So when I got back home, I installed > open-wrt, got it configured, and everything works great now. The box > seems to be a bit more responsive then it used to now as well, not > sure if thats a perception issue or if it is actually faster, but I'm > not going back to dd-wrt to see. > Open-wrt also has a TON of packages, (~2000) so there is plenty to > make it much more functional then dd-wrt. Their documentation seems > to be pretty decent as well. > > TL;DR: Laptop locks up this router with dd-wrt, and works fine with > open-wrt. > > Dan Bidleman > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 > RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml > Unsubscribe [email protected] > > -- --- Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Open Standards!
