[ubuntu-za] Which ADSL router?

[Greg Eames]

My 5 cents.

Asus have some nice routers now, and some of the models support
dd-wrt/open-wrt, which opens a wealth of choices and removes stock
firmware, may remove intentional back doors.

On Tue, 26 Jan 2016, 09:05 Matthew French <matthew at gillyweed.co.za> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 7:33 AM, Anton May <antonmay at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> If you are looking for a decent router, then a Netgear is a good option.
>> If you are looking for stabillity and worth every penny, maybe a Mikrotik,
>> but that is a bit of an overkill.
>>
>> D-Link are still good routers, so I would suggest get another D-Link
>> router. User friendly and easy to setup.
>>
>
> Since this is an Ubuntu forum, I feel it would be appropriate to also
> suggest the option of buying an ADSL modem and hooking it up to your Ubuntu
> firewall... :-)
>
> But to be honest I think it is hard to buy a bad ADSL router these days.
> They all seem to be chock full of features you will never need, and can do
> what you will need more than adequately.
>
> If it helps, I have an 11 year old Netgear which is still going strong. I
> only recently retired it because it doesn't support ADSL2 or WPA2. Sadly I
> have been told the newer Netgear products aren't as robust. Ask me in 11
> years which are today's reliable brands... :-(
>
> Finally, just to make the case for running a firewall from your home
> server - if you have one:
> 1. Even old PC's tend to have much faster processors than little routers,
> and so will be more responsive.
> 2. PC's have hard drives, so you can run squid and cache all those updates.
> 3. Linux (or BSD) distros receive patches more quickly and transparently
> than proprietary routers.
> 4. PC based routers are a lot more flexible, for example: allowing you to
> install packages that show network traffic. Or configure Upside-Down-Ternet
> (http://www.ex-parrot.com/pete/upside-down-ternet.html)
>
> For bonus points you can run the firewall in a virtual machine so you
> don't have to expose the rest of the server to the outside world.
>
> Of course the downside is it requires quite a bit of knowledge about
> networking and will take some fiddling to get right. I obviously wouldn't
> recommend this for the average home user. But it is a nice project for an
> enthusiast.
>
> - Matthew
>
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