[ubuntu-za] Which ADSL router?

[Jan Greeff]

Hi all, many thanks for some very useful feedback.

It was disconnecting every 15 to 30 minutes by last night, so in 
desperation I shook its memory up by switching the cables around between 
the ports, then rebooted. This morning it's been stable since 07:00. 
Touch wood, I will see how it goes from here on.

Kind regards,

Jan

On 26/01/2016 09:15, Greg Eames wrote:
>
> 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 
> <mailto:matthew at gillyweed.co.za>> wrote:
>
>     On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 7:33 AM, Anton May <antonmay at gmail.com
>     <mailto: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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