On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 5:59 PM, Rohan McLeod <rhn@jeack.com.au> wrote:
cory seligman wrote:
> I'll be getting my NBN connected in a few weeks and it seems like a
> good time to retire my old WRT54G routers.
>
> Does anyone have a suggestion for a router that is:
>
> cheap
> reliable
> 802.11n dual band
> easy to put OpenWRT on
>
> Also, does anyone have any good advice about getting OpenWRT working
> with the NBN? Maybe it's trivial - I don't know...

Just out of interest:
1/ Your ISP won't support any form of Linux ?
2/ so their NBN router preferences are not relevant ?


My ISP is iiNet. They want to sell me one of their BoB router/modems. That's fine, but they don't support GigE and the default config is pretty insecure. I reckon for the similar money I can get a router with better radio performance and GigE that can be configured to have no known backdoors.

iiNet have been pretty good about support. I've been using an "unsupported" ADSL modem for years. The only time I ever had a problem I rang them an explained what I had and the tech acknowledged that the problem must be at their end and fixed it anyways.