Re:Apple Abandons Development of Wireless Routers
by danudey on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @02:50PM
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You might want to consider investing in some better gear, like some Ubiquiti APs and a proper firewall appliance (e.g. pfSense or a Ubiquiti firewall as well). For not much more than the cost of your 'premium' home router, you could buy 2-3 APs and a firewall appliance and have a much more reliable configuration (or at least, less to buy when something dies).
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Re:Apple Abandons Development of Wireless Routers
by FullyFunctional on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @09:23PM
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I did invest the time and money in a pfSense, but that's WAY more complicated to configure [correctly] than my old and retired AirPort Express. I really can't blame "normal" people for not going that route and I'll join the crowd pining for the Apple that was.
Re:Apple Abandons Development of Wireless Routers
by jacobush on Thursday November 24, 2016 @03:57AM
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OpenWRT IS a proper firewall appliance and will run on just about anything. I basically have your solution in place already...
Re:Apple Abandons Development of Wireless Routers
by danudey on Monday November 28, 2016 @02:47AM
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OpenWRT is a good-idea firmware running on consumer-grade hardware which almost definitely can't deal with what you're throwing at it.
Just beacuse you paid a bunch of money for it and flashed it with a better firmware doesn't make it good hardware, and custom firmwares often have poor support (and, on more than a few occasions, worse performance) than the default firmwares optimized by the manufacturer for the specific hardware they have.
The fact that you have to keep buying new hardware tells me that you have lousy hardware and should step up to proper hardware rather than expensive consumer-grade stuff.
Re:Apple Abandons Development of Wireless Routers
by jacobush on Monday November 28, 2016 @05:18AM
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Yes. Or you know, keep replacing the parts that break, the things with WiFi i them. These run stock firmware. The one with openwrt is now for routing and firewall only and works fine. (Wifi disabled, Ethernet only.) A benefit to replacing wifi gear so far has been to keep one step ahead of the neighbours in the wifi spectrum. Gets crowded signal wise downtown.