Board:   [DoveNet] DoveNet General Chat
Subject: Re: Little thing to geek
From:    poindexter FORTRAN
Date:    Wed Nov 11, 2026 09:40

Subject: Re: Little thing to geek out over: Ethernet wiring
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Subject: Re: Little thing to geek out over: Ethernet wiring
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-=> Outlaw wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

 Ou>  My router has 6 directional antena's, never thought I'd ever buy a
 Ou> TP-Link router, I have used an awesome TP-Link switch for many years
 Ou> and it's still going strong, so I bought a tp-link router and have been
 Ou> pretty impressed with it.

 My favorite router of late has been the Linksys WRT1900/3200 ACS series.
 They're blue and black, reminiscent of the old WRT54G series routers,
 have enough cores and memory for my needs, and run OpenWRT just fine.

 One nice thing about the Linksys, and I don't think other brands do
 this - it's got 2 firmware slots. When you first upload OpenWRT to it,
 it takes up one slot. If the router bricks and doesn't boot 3 times in
 a row, it automatically switches to the second slot with the untouched
 firmware. You could keep stock firmware on the second slot, or upgrade
 one slot, test it, then upgrade the second.

 They're cheap on the used market now.

 The YouTube channel "Hardware Haven" has some interesting bits - I
 watched a an episode with a Riverbed CX570 WAN appliance, sounds like a
 commodity router box running a Pentium with 2 cores, DDR memory, an SSD
 and a SATA drive and 6 gig ports for under $100 on eBay? Might be a fun
 project, I've wanted to play with OpnSense.



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