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Re: FOSS-friendly Wireless Access Point (WAP) for SOHO network?

From Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: FOSS-friendly Wireless Access Point (WAP) for SOHO network?
Date 2017-06-06 15:30 +0200
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On Monday 05 June 2017 22:14:32 David Christensen wrote:

> debian-user:
>
> I am looking for a FOSS-friendly Wireless Access Point (WAP) for my
> SOHO network, to support Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, OS X, Android, iOS,
> etc., Wi-Fi devices.  I'd like something with an external power
> adapter (wall wart), dual-band, 802.11 b/g/n/ac, Gigabit Ethernet
> port, built-in antennas, wall mount, good factory firmware (I will use
> this as an AP only; DD-WRT bricked my last router), and that can
> handle warm temperatures (say, 100 F).
>
>
> Does anyone have any advice, warnings, recommendations, etc.?
>
>
> David

Sorry to hear about the bricked router.

As a long term (15 years or so) user of dd-wrt, there is not a better 
solution.  If it bricked your last router, my guess is that you flashed 
it with the wrong file for your router model.

Some routers have a magic button combo that will re-install the factory 
firmware, but the only time I ever had to use it was when I had 
forgotten the username/passwd combo.

As a guard dog for your local network, no one has come thru it here in at 
least 15 years that I didn't need thru it, and gave them the login over 
the phone so they could.

The singular exception to the nothing comes thru it, is someone accessing 
my web pages which are physically on this machine.
.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
-- 
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FOSS-friendly Wireless Access Point (WAP) for SOHO network? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-06-06 04:20 +0200
  Re: FOSS-friendly Wireless Access Point (WAP) for SOHO network? Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2017-06-06 05:40 +0200
  Re: FOSS-friendly Wireless Access Point (WAP) for SOHO network? Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org> - 2017-06-06 06:50 +0200
  Re: FOSS-friendly Wireless Access Point (WAP) for SOHO network? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-06-06 10:00 +0200
  Re: FOSS-friendly Wireless Access Point (WAP) for SOHO network? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-06-06 10:20 +0200
  Re: FOSS-friendly Wireless Access Point (WAP) for SOHO network? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-06-06 15:30 +0200
  Re: FOSS-friendly Wireless Access Point (WAP) for SOHO network? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-06-08 03:50 +0200
    Re: FOSS-friendly Wireless Access Point (WAP) for SOHO network? Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2017-06-08 12:40 +0200
      Re: FOSS-friendly Wireless Access Point (WAP) for SOHO network? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-06-08 13:20 +0200
        Re: FOSS-friendly Wireless Access Point (WAP) for SOHO network? Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2017-06-08 18:00 +0200

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