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The Grumpy Editor's Tomato reviewThe Grumpy Editor's Tomato reviewPosted Jan 12, 2010 9:11 UTC (Tue) by djc (subscriber, #56880)Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's Tomato review
Hmm, does anyone know of open hardware (e.g. runs things like OpenWRT) that supports both 802.11n and has Gigabit Ethernet ports? The Linksys WRT160NL still doesn't sport Gbit Ethernet...
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The Grumpy Editor's Tomato review Posted Jan 12, 2010 17:08 UTC (Tue) by Thalience (subscriber, #4217) [Link]
Openwrt trunk/git recently gained TP-Link 1043ND support.
http://www.tp-link.com/products/productDetails.asp?class=...
The Grumpy Editor's Tomato review Posted Jan 12, 2010 18:37 UTC (Tue) by djc (subscriber, #56880) [Link]
Thanks for the link. Doesn't look like that's readily available around here, though.
The Grumpy Editor's Tomato review Posted Jan 12, 2010 20:03 UTC (Tue) by Thalience (subscriber, #4217) [Link]
Thats too bad. In my throughput testing on a Planex MZK-W04nu running openwrt trunk, I can easily max out its 100mbit ethernet switch (hint, enable extra HT flags in hostapd.conf). Since the ath9k driver achieved this level of performance, I've been looking for a new unit with an atheros 3x3 radio + gigabit ethernet. The TP-Link unit is the only one I'm aware of at this time. Certainly the only sub-$100 one.
The Grumpy Editor's Tomato review Posted Jan 13, 2010 2:16 UTC (Wed) by smoogen (subscriber, #97) [Link]
My guess would be that gigabit doesn't make a lot of sense in the product since the wireless part isn't going to see gigabit throughput and for the majority if people (home users versus say a dorm user) upstream is going to be 10-50mpbs maximum. I would say having a seperate gigabit switch is goin to make more sense.
The Grumpy Editor's Tomato review Posted Jan 13, 2010 17:46 UTC (Wed) by johill (subscriber, #25196) [Link]
New wireless will fairly easily exceed 100 Mbps throughput though, so having gbit on a new router is useful if you want to do any kind of streaming or file transfer inside your home.
The Grumpy Editor's Tomato review Posted Jan 13, 2010 17:53 UTC (Wed) by pj (subscriber, #4506) [Link]
Sorry, but that doesn't fly: as soon as you put storage on the box (even via USB), GigaE starts making sense, even if only to prevent collisions between 'net users and local-storage users.
The Grumpy Editor's Tomato review Posted Jan 13, 2010 9:31 UTC (Wed) by arekm (subscriber, #4846) [Link]
TL-WR1043ND (when comparing with WRT160NL) is cheaper, has Gbit switch (instead of 100Mbit as in 160NL), is based on a newer atheros platform.
People are doing interesting things with it already like replacing 32MB memory with 64MB chip (works fine), putting usb hub inside of the case (to have more usb ports) or putting 1.8" hdd and then boot from that hdd instead of flash.
http://openlinksys.info/forum/viewthread.php?forum_id=63&...
The Grumpy Editor's Tomato review Posted Jan 14, 2010 12:23 UTC (Thu) by dion (subscriber, #2764) [Link]
2 gigabit interfaces, one of them connected to a 4 port gigabit switch, room for 3 miniPCI radios and it runs OpenWRT out of the box:
http://www.ubnt.com/products/rspro.php
... oh and it's cheap too:)
The Grumpy Editor's Tomato review Posted Jan 14, 2010 21:40 UTC (Thu) by bfields (subscriber, #19510) [Link] A *case* is one feature that doesn't usually show on on checklists, but that can be nice.... And will anyone actually sell you one of those? (OK, I didn't look too hard.)
The Grumpy Editor's Tomato review Posted Jan 16, 2010 8:58 UTC (Sat) by dion (subscriber, #2764) [Link]
Yes, these guys sell a nice case with the board:
http://www.netgate.com/product_info.php?cPath=60_84&p...
... but you're right, it's quite strange that Ubiquiti themselves didn't run off a simple box for the boards.
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