You make a good point, Duncan. It's probably the simplest and cheapest solution, all things considered.
My resistance to replacing a wired router with a wireless router is just me being a careful system administrator. I have a working system that uses a wired router and a couple of access-points for Wi-Fi. The space I'm in has foil insulated walls and floors that make it impossible to reach all rooms with one radio. If I put in a wireless router, I may get unexpected interactions with the APs that will make the whole thing harder to diagnose and configure. If I were starting from scratch, I would certainly go with a modern commercial wireless router, add APs as necessary, slave them to the router, and be done with it. I may wind up going ahead and doing just that (using the existing APs as much as I can) but I'm trying to avoid a long period of down-time while I get it configured. Thanks for the information about the buffalo wzr-g300-nh. That will be helpful if I go this route. Do you have a URL for technical details on that one? Rick On Sep 16, 2011, at 10:42 AM, Duncan Hutty wrote: > On 9/16/11 1:50 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: >> >> My ancient SMC7008VBR 8-port wired (not wireless) home router died as a >> result of hurricane Irene. I've temporarily replaced it with it's >> predecessor, a 4-port SMC7004VBR, but that was underpowered and on it's >> last legs 8 years ago when I replaced it. So I'm in the market for a new >> wired (not wireless) router. > > I hear that you don't want wireless, but I wonder about your objection? > Wouldn't it be easier/cheaper to just get a well supported modern > device, put openwrt on it and turn off the radio? > > I'm happy with my buffalo wzr-g300-nh. more memory and flash than most. > > -- > Duncan Hutty _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
