OpenWrt "Chaos Calmer" 15.05 released [LWN.net]

OpenWrt "Chaos Calmer" 15.05 released

Posted Sep 21, 2015 11:12 UTC (Mon) by mstone_ (subscriber, #66309)
In reply to: OpenWrt "Chaos Calmer" 15.05 released by josh
Parent article: OpenWrt "Chaos Calmer" 15.05 released

I suggest just building a router that's a router, and using an access point that's an access point--mixing the two just ends us causing more work in the long term. Routers are well understood and rock solid, while wireless drivers are always either unstable, buggy, or obsolescent; there's no up side to screwing up the router/firewall with wifi.

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OpenWrt "Chaos Calmer" 15.05 released

Posted Sep 22, 2015 8:09 UTC (Tue) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link]

what? you mean you don't want a router/firewall between your wifi and your sired network?

your wifi device has a constant speed wired network on one side and a variable speed wireless network on the other side. that takes a lot of smarts to handle (and arguably, nothing currently handles it right)

wifi drivers are a problem, but so are the drivers for the DSL/Cable/Fiber interfaces (you don't think that they are normal ethernet do you?)

Also, since many people don't have any wired devices, why add the additional failure points of having two devices instead of one?

The cost of adding wired router functionality to a wifi device is really low. A stand-alone 5 port switch sells for <$40 retail with the need for a separate case, power supply, stock number packaging, shipping,e tc. how much do you think it costs to add the switch chip and ethernet jacks to a wifi systems? I'll bet it's somewhere in the low single digital $ range, and wouldn't be surprised if it's <$1