OT: Wireless routers

[Fairlight]

Four score and seven years--eh, screw that!  At about Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at
08:00:11AM -0400, Brian K. White blabbed on about:
> The D-link DIR-655 is hands down the best, both in terms of throughput,
> latency, firmware software features, stability, responsiveness (the cpu
> and ram is actually up to the task), ability to actually handle gigabit

Not here.  The only thing better about it over the DI-624 was a cleaner UI.
Ok...know ytalk?  Latency issues every few seconds for up to half a line on
a session to a wired system.  Unacceptable.

> The only downside I see to the D-Link DIR-655 is not being able to use
> OpenWRT or dd-wrt.

Or being able to do things without latency bursts even when at 54Mbps with
75-82% signal.  I've had rock solid connections at hotels on 42%.

> I had an early version Linksys WRT54G with openwrt and it was rock
> solid. It was fine out of the box too with the original firmware. So have
> several others been at client sites and friends houses.  For WRT54G and
> openwrt and for quality in general you do have to know to look for old
> versions on ebay, do not get new ones. They aren't improved, they are
> the other form of progress, as in "ok so now that it works, let's see
> how much we can get away with removing...". Some versions came with as
> much as 8M of flash and 32M of ram, and some came with as little as 2M of
> flash and 8M of ram.

Irrelevant.  Sony does that with PlayStation products in every generation.
I had a 3rd model PS2--the last with hardware based PSX emulation.  They
removed firewire a couple years later for the slim version because it had
no use.

Complaining about a router's memory size only becomes relevant if you have
a need for large ACLs, or if you do BGP.  If you run out of RAM for BGP, it
drops the whole routing table on the ground and dies--happened at my ISP
once.  And consumer level gear doesn't do BGP.

Other than that, you're looking at memory sizes for non-supported,
unintended uses, like DD-WRT.  That's not the mfgr's problem, any more than
it's Fender's problem if you want to put in oversized pickups that the
model was never intended to hold.

Seriously, DIR-615, hell.  WRT54GN, instant heaven.  Played COD4 for 3hrs
without one hiccup last night, and I couldn't go 3min on the D-Link without
issues.

mark->
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