Subj : OpenWRT
To   : Richard Menedetter
From : Alexey Vissarionov
Date : Sun May 08 2016 10:01:10

Good ${greeting_time}, Richard!

07 May 2016 10:59:40, you wrote to me:

 RM>>> I would get one of this 25 USD delivered routers:
 RM>>> http://www.dx.com/p/416150
 RM>>> to get a bit of practice in the configuration.
 AV>> They don't worth that money, as they have only 16 Mb of memory.
 RM> Plenty for a test device ;)

Alas, no: you'd have to choose between Web-interface and SSH access.

 RM> I have a Hame A2 power brick/mini router combo.

Yes, I also have such devices and really like them, as they have almost everything I need for home automation. Also, if you manage to brick it, resurrecting is as simple as reflashing the 25Q32 EEPROM.

 RM> It has only 8 MB flash and 32 MB RAM.

Obviously, 32 Mb RAM is much better than 16.

 RM> I installed R00ter on it (3g/4g LTE oriented OpenWRT fork) and it
 RM> works nicely, and there is space left on the flash.

The flash is needed only for the kernel, as everything else may reside on USB storage


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