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Can FreedomBox be an alternative to commercial home routers?

Can FreedomBox be an alternative to commercial home routers?

Posted Jul 5, 2012 17:46 UTC (Thu) by pj (subscriber, #4506)
In reply to: Can FreedomBox be an alternative to commercial home routers? by n8willis
Parent article: Can FreedomBox be an alternative to commercial home routers?

Buffalo sells routers with DD-WRT preinstalled.


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Can FreedomBox be an alternative to commercial home routers?

Posted Jul 5, 2012 18:52 UTC (Thu) by n8willis (editor, #43041) [Link]

DD-WRT is not OpenWrt, however; they (DD) have proprietary pieces for which they do not provide source. There is a whole other can of worms about the manner in which DD provides source and whether or not it is sufficient to compile and build a working image (an argument which I have not desire to get into). But in any event, making modifications to the version of DD that ships with Buffalo still voids the device's warranty.

Nate

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