Ok. I guess it would be helpful to share what I'm trying to do! :-) Minimum goal: Make a second WLAN for a guest network (think waiting room) that has access to the Internet, but is isolated from all resources on my current home network.
Secondary goal: Have the ability to throttle traffic on that secondary network. Limiting each connection or, at the very least, the total bandwidth would be nice so the primary network doesn't get slowed by a guest camping out on YouTube or Netflix. Bonus: Have the ability to track or log sites and then maybe block or slow traffic to those sites (perhaps even dynamically...). FYI - My current wireless router covers my home well with stock firmware but guest and second a/n radio functions do not work with wpa2 for some reason. I'm happy with current performance and I don't want to mess up a working setup with a possibly borked dd-wrt installation. Note: I've installed it previously, but I can't afford any downtime. I'm looking for most functionality with least cost and these seem to be the best two options: 1.)Newegg has a $20.00 d-link dir-615: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833127241 It looks like it has dd-wrt compatibility from this table: http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Supported_Devices#D-Link 2.) I can get a microtik RB951-2N for about $45.00: http://routerboard.com/RB951-2n I'm leaning towards the d-link with dd-wrt, but does it have the bandwidth limiting functions? How about logging and tracking? If the microtik has more functionality, I am willing to pay the higher price... Thanks, Al On Jul 16, 2013, at 1:22 PM, "dragorn" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 12:30:17PM -0400, Al Jachimiak wrote: >> Does anyone have experience with Microtik equipment? >> >> I was looking into a cheap wireless access point: >> http://routerboard.com/RB951-2n >> >> I had heard some good things about their products but I was hoping >> that someone here has some first person experience. >> >> By the way, here is a link to a demo of their routerOS: >> http://demo.mt.lv/ > > People tend to love it or hate it. They've been around for a while. > > Depends a lot on what you want to do. For a small deploy you could > also look at ubiquity - they make some good gear for small scale > stuff. > > For larger deploys your major concern is going to be manageability and > coordination; I don't think routeros offers the best options there, > you could look at aerohive and aruba instant, which are both priced a > fair bit below the full enterprise offerings from aruba, cisco, etc. > > Lately aerohive has impressed me a lot. > > If you're just doing a home deploy - microtik is probably fine, but so > are a lot of consumer APs with either good stock firmware, or > ddwrt/opnenwrt. The asus n66u comes to mind as an excellent one at > the moment which seems to be absurdly fast and have absurdly good > radios in it - i'm quite surprised at the range I'm getting w/out > doing any optimizations. > > -m > > > -- > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College > Aug 7 - Scripting Your World with Python > Sep 4 - NoSQL and MongoDB > Oct 2 - OpenFlow: Open Standard for Networking Hardware
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